The thread in the Bocksten Bog man's costume did NOT survive. It was therefore most likely either linen or hemp, both grown in Scandinavia at the time. All the thread was gone when they found it in 1936. This can be seen from the report/book from this time "Bockstensmannen och hans dräkt" edited by Margareta Nockert. It is now 70 years since the Bocksten man was found and for the last two years a research project has been running. I was the person doing the dress historical research and has thus had the opportunity to handle the garment as well as seeing all the original documentation photos.
As for wool thread fulling and becoming almost invisible; that is not always the case. Some of the Herjolfsnes finds have quite visible thread. For sewing worsted yarn was often used, it is stronger and doesn't full. Oh, and I sew a lot of wool with silk thread, that is actually the way it was done in more recent times before the invention of polyester thread. It does not cut the wool fibres. /Eva I Andersson Message: 5 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:45:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Kathy Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [h-cost] Re: h-costume Digest, Vol 5, Issue 577 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >I can give you an extant source where the linen thread DID survive - The Bocksten bog >man. I have an in situ photograph of it, which is the only state it survived in. >It disintegrated the moment they moved the textile. Wool sewing thread, if used in wool >garments would likely full into place like The extant Irish Moy gown shows. I don't >recall hearing of wool being sewn with silk though - I could likely be wrong, though. I >would suspect that silk would cut the wool with the movement of the wearer. Kathy Ermine, a lion rampant tail nowed gules charged on the shoulder with a rose Or barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved vert(Fieldless) On a rose Or barbed vert a lion's head erased gules. Its never too late to be who you might have been. -George Eliot Tosach eólais imchomarc. - Questioning is the beginning of knowledge. http://www.sengoidelc.com/node/131 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
