Iron age finnish clothing

Another one of the Finnish ancient dresses. This one is from Perniö, from the 1100's. I don't often see children depicted in iron age art, so I wanted to paint a mother and a child having fun with some pine cone "cows".

rautakausi – Neulakko

Kira on Instagram: "The full outfit ❤️ Now that I'm done with my shawl there really isn't much more to add to my Finnish iron age outfit. It is time to move forward and make new versions that will be more in line with what we know about Finnish iron age clothing from archaeology. My first goal is to make a new peplos dress with tablet woven edges. When I first started on my red peplos dress it felt like an impossible task to take apart the woven fabric and make tablet woven edges on it, so I

Finnish clothes of the Iron Age and designs to use elements of them in modern clothes.

The Eura dress was discovered in Finland in a grave dated between 1020-1050. In this video, I will show you an interpretation inspired by this style and how ...

Same note as always: Almost all of my information is from the Finnish Iron Age Facebook group and the documents they link to. Another one of the best resources is Mervi’s blog (which I’…

Same note as always: Almost all of my information is from the Finnish Iron Age Facebook group and the documents they link to. Another one of the best resources is Mervi’s blog (which I’…

This weekend the Gamla Uppsala Muesum (yeah yeah, most people say Old Uppsala in English but frankly, I find it silly to translate place-names!) hold an Iron Age event and we are planning to attend together with a couple of friends. That, and a nice little phone conversation I had with Ida got me thinking about Iron Age fashion, the problems of Viking Age clothes (more specifically the female clothes) and purely practically speaking... what I should wear in Gamla Uppsala. A couple of years…