Excavations in Ribe, Denmark show that Viking culture was based on sophisticated production and trade. Is their brutal reputation unfair?
Weathered and etched and aged, as close to the originals as I've been able to manage. Inspired by beads found as grave goods throughout the Viking world. Viking men and women treasured their beads of jet and amber rock, crystal and agate, carved bone and ivory, gold, silver, and especially glass. Women's graves have been found with hundreds and hundreds of beads. These replicas feature gold foil, enamel, layered cane and hand made starburst and checkerboard murrini. Available in my Etsy Store, $45 for sets of 7 to 9 beads.
A selection of Anglo-Saxon beads from Hadleigh Road cemetery, Ipswich, UK. Lady Elinor Strangewayes, OM. Shire of Mountain Freehold. Materials: Glass beads, wire. Date: 2nd – 7th century AD. …
Iron Age. Norway. Exhibited at the History Museum in Oslo, Norway. Pre-Christian era.
Mobility shaped the human world profoundly long before the modern age. But archaeologists often struggle to create a timeline for the speed and impact of this mobility. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Urban Network Evolutions at Aarhus University (UrbNet) has now made a breakthrough by applying new astronomical knowledge about the past activity of the sun to establish an exact time anchor for global links in the year 775 CE.
I’ve been participating in the A&S 50 Challenge with the goal of reproducing 50 different period bead patterns. I’ve since met that goal and am now aiming for my second 50 patterns. My photogra…
Beads, journey through space, time and materials (since we're talking, these days, immigration - emigration - Migration) And thank...
Inspired by the show Vikings, some truly bad ass costumes I’ve seen at Texas Renaissance Festival and on Pinterest, and wanting to wear a costume in the freezing winds of the Orkney Islands, I…
One of the Saxon glass beads (AD410-1066) recovered from Cliffs End in Kent . For more information visit www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end/
The Munsell Bead Color Book is used by archaeologists to classify the color of ancient colored glass beads used for trade in the Viking Age. Matthew Delvaux , who is researching the slave trade of the Viking Age with the History Department at Boston College, explains the challenges of studying colors in the past.
Beads, journey through space, time and materials (since we're talking, these days, immigration - emigration - Migration) And thank...
Anglo-Saxon glass bead necklace from Eastry House in the Dover Museum, Kent, England.
A matched pair of bronze oval brooches, two pendant plaques with lateral coils and loops; three restrung swags of graduated mainly glass spherical beads
~ Historisches Museum Oslo ~ ~2013~ Teil 1 / Part 1 p ~Bronzezeit / Vorrömische Eisenzeit~ Broze Age / Pre-Roman Iron Age bronzezeitliche Tierfiguren Bronze Age animal figurines p pflanzengefärbte …
(above) testing design elements, I rather liked the purple flower but it's too modern. I've been playing with ideas for a begemmed choker a-la Cranach for a while now. I've debated making one out of femo so I can get the detail right but it'll be almost impossible to make it fit properly. I ended up using a wine-purple velvet ribbon as my backing. I then sewed brass plated accents which I've been acquiring from Spotlight for some time now. I further decorated with some pale pink pearls. The choker will eventually have a clip at the back joining the two tear drop shapes. I quite like how this has turned out even though it's not entirely like the Cranach ones. (below) the finished choker. The gold-ish accents are flimsy enough to bend to the curve of my neck.
