Image: The Iron Age tunic. Credit Marianne Vedeler/Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo.
Posted on 08/31/2013 7:14:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A boat neck sweater made of warm wool and woven in diamond twill was a dominating fashion trend among reindeer hunters 1,700 years ago, according to researchers who have investigated an extremely well preserved Iron Age tunic found two years ago under melting snow in Norway...
Found in an hunting area on the Norwegian Lendbreen glacier at 6,560 feet above the sea level, the well-preserved tunic was made between 230 and 390 A.D., according to radiocarbon dating...
Examinations with a scanning electron microscope and light microscopy revealed that two different fabrics, made of lamb's wool or wool from adult sheep, are present in the tunic.
...the fabric was deliberately and evenly mottled, the effect obtained using two light and two dark brown alternating wool threads.
Relatively short and constructed from a simple cut, the greenish-brown tunic would have fitted a slender man about 5 feet, 9 inches tall. It featured a boat neck, had no buttons or fastenings, but was simply drawn over the head like a sweater.
The cut and size of the tunic closely resembles that of a garment excavated more than 150 years ago in a bog at Thorsbjerg, Schleswig-Holsten. Now in the Archaeological Museum in Schleswig, Germany, it was found in an early first millennium weapon deposit offering, and presumably had belonged to an officer...
The sweater-like tunic showed hard wear and tear and had been mended with two patches...
According to the researchers, it is quite possible that the tunic was originally sleeveless, and that the sleeves were added at the time of the second repair...
The tunic is not the only textile item recovered from the Norwegian ice patches.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
Image: The Iron Age tunic. Credit Marianne Vedeler/Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo.
What? No hoodie?
You can barely make out the Woolrich tag.
Early camo!
If you want to destroy my sweater...
Hold this thread as I walk away...
Watch me unravel, I’ll soon be naked.
Lying on the floor,
I’ve come undone.
Oh come on now. We’re the only humans to experience history.
Were there washing instructions sewn to the neck opening?
It belonged to Helen Thomas when she was just a school girl.
Looks like Mossy Oak.
absolutely fascinating!
It had coffee stains...
Oh, man, they will NEVER get those wrinkles out.
Looks like most of my work tee shirts. (Minus the Made in Honduras tag)
Take your records, take your freedom
Take your memories I don’t need’em
Take your space and take your reasons
But you’ll think of me
And take your cap and leave my sweater
‘Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I’ll feel a whole lot better
But you’ll think of me, you’ll think of me
Does it have pockets?
Thought my dryer had eaten that thing.
One of my favorite songs.
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