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Viking: Dress, Clothing, Klaer, Garment (English and Norwegian Edition)
List Price : $120.00 Price : $117.00as of 2012-07-30 04:36 AM
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From Nille Glaesel's Introduction: For many years I have worked with textiles, making Viking clothes and shoes. I have also tanned leather and worked with a reconstruction of Osebergrevlene for the Viking Museum, Lofotr. I am often asked about patterns for the Viking's beautiful garments. It is through this work that I have seen the need for a book which makes it easy for anyone to sew their very own Viking costumes, based on the sparse findings that have been gathered and preserved from the Viking period. Although the findings are few, they nevertheless give us some clear guidelines for cut, use of materials and techniques. My main goal has not been to reconstruct typical garments from this era, but to show the cut of clothing from the Viking Age (A.D. 780 to 1030) and make it accessible to most people. There are many who are interested in the Viking era and who would like to sew their own costume, but it is difficult to get hold of the correct materials. Within archaeology, textiles have traditionally not been given priority. It is said that clothes maketh the man, and I believe that textile research is important if we really want to learn about our past. Fortunately, there have been some recent developments and pioneers in this field, and I am thrilled with their work and wait excitedly for future publications. In this book I have used machine-made fabrics and sewn all hidden seams with a sewing machine. In the section on sewing-techniques, I have used illustrations to show methods known and used by the Vikings. If you want to weave the fabrics on a warp weighted loom with yarn spun on a drop-spindle, then you are close to a reconstruction.
Viking: Dress, Clothing, Klaer, Garment (English and Norwegian Edition) Reviews
Viking: Dress, Clothing, Klaer, Garment (English and Norwegian Edition) Reviews
| 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful  Could do better......, This review is from: Viking: Dress, Clothing, Klaer, Garment (English and Norwegian Edition) (Hardcover) As stated elsewhere, erratic translation - some of the Norwegian(?) text mixed in with the English could be from another book as it does not duplicate the accompanying untranslated text.Nice pictures, but not as informative as they should have been. Definitely could have used some photos of the assemblies as the line drawings are not that clear either. Definitely not worth $120 for basically a pamphlet with 3 sheets of patterns (which you then have to trace to use) - Lilli Fransen's Mediaeval Garments Reconstructed or Sarah Thursfield's Mediaeval Tailor's Assistant - are both a fraction the price & better books, covering much the same material. I note that Thor Ewing is also looking to bring out a book of Viking patterns in 2011 as a follow up to his 'Viking Clothing (2008)' 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful  Could Have Been So Great, Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Viking: Dress, Clothing, Klaer, Garment (English and Norwegian Edition) (Hardcover) This book was a great attempt to bring practical construction of Norse clothing to Re-enactors of the Viking era. Unfortunately I must stress the word attempt. The patterns are incredibly confusing being overlaid on top of each other with very minimal markings to identify what they are or what pieces go with what. There is no information in the book on how to even make minimal alterations to the patterns. There are a few very nice pictures of folks in finished garb but there is minimal information that shows the steps of construction and most of those are drawings. The alternating Norwegian and English Text can be very confusing especially when an English sentence suddenly turns to Norwegian. The sheer number of errors in the text seems to suggest that it was never seriously proofed or at least not proofed by a native speaker of the English language. I can't speak for the Norwegian portions but I hope they were better. I have spent the last week trying to construct several of... Read more 6 of 7 people found the following review helpful  Good information, TERRIBLE editing & translation, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Viking: Dress, Clothing, Klaer, Garment (English and Norwegian Edition) (Hardcover) I really wanted to like this book. The pictures are lovely as is the whole presentation. It comes with a packet of pattern sheets printed on heavy stock.However . . . the editing is absolutely awful. The translation is often poor and some English sentences lapse into Norwegian halfway through. Some paragraphs are a struggle to read. The step by step instructions seem to be translated almost word for word in some cases, which causes them to lose the sense of what is being conveyed. The type has odd gaps in places. On the plus side, if one can get through the linguistic issues, I think one can produce some nice garb. Given the price of this book, I would recommend borrowing it first before purchase, if possible, to see if it fits your needs. |
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