ENKOPING, Sweden — The discovery of Arabic characters that spell “Allah” and “Ali” on Viking funeral costumes in boat graves in Sweden has raised questions about the influence of Islam in Scandinavia.
The grave where the costumes were found belonged to a woman dressed in silk burial clothes and was excavated from a field in Gamla Uppsala, north of Stockholm, in the 1970s, but its contents were not cataloged until a few years ago, Annika Larsson, a textile archaeologist at Uppsala University, said on Friday.
Among the contents unearthed: a necklace with a figurine; two coins from Baghdad; and the bones of a rooster and a large dog.
Also: |dendrochronologists| who can date the age of a prehistoric wood structure by looking at the widths of successive growth rings in a given piece. The succession of good year/bad year rings denotes the year the tree was felled. So cool.
Welp, I'm probably too old to undergo the academic rigors of a new scientific profession, but I totally missed my calling.
Sort of related, I think I'm going to do a bunch of weaving and dyeing and some bead-work to make tableware to sell at the craft shows this year. I'm all about exploration in indigo.
Took me a while to see what the problem was.
Maybe storing the nail for later use?
That's a cut nail, if I'm not mistaken. They don't split the wood fibers the way round/pointy nails do. Much stronger.
Edit: I had it backwards. Cut nails (so called because they're cut from a slab of metal by a smith) do split the fibers, which spring back and grip the shank of the nail, giving a stronger hold than a round, pointed nail, which pushes the fibers aside.
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Oh, it's a cut nail, alright. I cut it myself with my Skilsaw. Re-using lumber has its drawbacks. Not the current project, this was a shed I built down at the desert compound.
That's why we have Demmy, the Demo Saw!
Are you asking which shade of floor should be in your next house? I think you are. I'd say hornbeam, because it's rare, you can bore it and it's dry at the same time.
I'm all into indigo this year, too. My local fabric store has some amazing Japanese stuff from Kaufman called "Sevenberry." I can't make the link work, but if you go onto fabric.com and do a search for "sevenberry indigo" you'll see it. Mostly that stuff called "quilting fabric" what still, very cool designs in indigo.
Dr. Larsson discovered the Arabic characters in February, as she was preparing some of the items for an exhibition on Viking couture in Enkoping, Sweden. She had been trying to recreate textile patterns for the exhibits — by comparing motifs on the burial dress with a silk band found around the head of a skeleton in a Viking grave at Birka, Sweden — when she discovered Kufic characters of Arabic.
Not everyone accepted Dr. Larsson’s interpretation. She said she had been interviewed by an extreme right-wing publication questioning the exhibition and her reading of the material.
Viking symbols such as the Tyr rune are used by neo-Nazi groups to advance a myth of ethnic purity, something that many Viking re-enactment groups have said they do not want to be associated with.
"Textile archaeologist"—who knew?
Yeah, every so often they find a bit of woven cloth that's very old.
Also, lice and cultural revolution, so it all ties together. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lice-ev…
Also: |dendrochronologists| who can date the age of a prehistoric wood structure by looking at the widths of successive growth rings in a given piece. The succession of good year/bad year rings denotes the year the tree was felled. So cool.
Yep. Big thing at UA. Swetnam consulted a lot when we started setting eco- fires
http://www.treeringscar.org/
Welp, I'm probably too old to undergo the academic rigors of a new scientific profession, but I totally missed my calling.
Sort of related, I think I'm going to do a bunch of weaving and dyeing and some bead-work to make tableware to sell at the craft shows this year. I'm all about exploration in indigo.
As for me, I shoulda been a chronodendrologist, but didn't even know it was a thing.<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/16_wood_samples.jpg/525px-16_wood_samples.jpg"/>
Here's one to ponder:
<img src="https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s200x200/420873_313612515412695_30445415_n.jpg?oh=e54e1dd20a64d536697fcdd90ad64ebf&oe=5A3A5CB4"</img>
Took me a while to see what the problem was.
Maybe storing the nail for later use?
That's a cut nail, if I'm not mistaken. They don't split the wood fibers the way round/pointy nails do. Much stronger.
Edit: I had it backwards. Cut nails (so called because they're cut from a slab of metal by a smith) do split the fibers, which spring back and grip the shank of the nail, giving a stronger hold than a round, pointed nail, which pushes the fibers aside.
My newsletter is available if you need more information. And here're the answers to the image above. How many did you get? <img src="http://i68.tinypic.com/1grei0.jpg"/>
Oh, it's a cut nail, alright. I cut it myself with my Skilsaw. Re-using lumber has its drawbacks. Not the current project, this was a shed I built down at the desert compound.
That's why we have Demmy, the Demo Saw!
Are you asking which shade of floor should be in your next house? I think you are. I'd say hornbeam, because it's rare, you can bore it and it's dry at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojamSYmjEs0
I'm all into indigo this year, too. My local fabric store has some amazing Japanese stuff from Kaufman called "Sevenberry." I can't make the link work, but if you go onto fabric.com and do a search for "sevenberry indigo" you'll see it. Mostly that stuff called "quilting fabric" what still, very cool designs in indigo.
Holy smokes, those are gorgeous! I’m doing some experimentation in shibori, so Japanese-inspired too.
FAKE ARCHAEOLOGY
Birka? zOMG!
Yes, that was his next stop after he left Hyjjåab, Norway.
What about the goats?
<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Yule_goat_Gefle_Sweden_2009_crop.jpg" />
No one ever thinks of the goats.
💯 for your Hallowe'en-themed screen name.
dog and goat show
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7528529-181/dog…
Awww…
Yes, you can pull off tweed and not look old-timey.
http://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/g124442…
Edroso went tweed
http://alicublog.blogspot.com/
Oh, that Tweedy
http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/09/11/5…
Hipster Vikings play chess with walrus bones
http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/2200-year-old-…
Facepalm!
Goddamn Swedes.
<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMPUvsZUIAAWnOw.jpg" />
Those are the dentochronologists, but at least they tell you what time it happened.
Yep:
Also: Viking re-enactors! Who knew?