Bleep, Dots and Nonsense...» garb | Bleep, Dots and Nonsense... http://syridian.id.au A Personal website for the life and times of a strange individual. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:56:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lost to marketing hype… Or, Woohoo!! Half My Amazon order arrived! http://syridian.id.au/archives/651 http://syridian.id.au/archives/651#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 00:32:23 +0000 Syridian http://syridian.id.au/?p=651 Continue reading →]]> 2 weeks ago I decided that I was going to listen to the wise words of a laurel that I had pestered for advice and been given.  She had informed me that I should purchase a book called: “Viking Clothing” by Thor Ewing. So, taking this advice I dutily (well…  after about 8 months of procrastination that is..), off I went to search for this book on Ebay and find it I did….  and I added it to my cart and as you do when you are searching for books on Amazon, I thought I would have a look at all of the other suggestions…  And there was this magnificent book I had seen before, and it was affordable…  and it was well…  Available…  So Lo, I did loose myself to the intelligent marketing of those Amazon geeks, and added that to the cart too.

The second book was on my doorstep when I got home from work this morning, just sitting there tempting me to waste the morning reading it and not actually getting anything else done.  Yes…  I know, you are all wanting to know what this wonderful book is.  This book that I was drooling over it when a dear friend showed it to me…  This book that I was expecting to pay a small fortune for…   This book is “Woven into the Earth: Textile finds in Norse Greenland” by Else Ostergaard,  and it’s full af an amazing amount of detail on Norse Textile finds.  Thanks to my Norse friend for suggesting this one, it was worth the money, just looking through it in the last 30 minutes I have dispelled a large number of Myth’s about Norse/Viking clothing that kept meaning I was reluctant to do certain thins with making my garb.  Now I have a book that has wonderful pictures showing me the finds and I can see how things should be done. :)   Now I’m looking forward to finding the time to experiment more.

]]> http://syridian.id.au/archives/651/feed 0