Replica Iron Age cloth for sale

[tri]

Hi folks,

Here's a link to the on-line shop of Lejre Archaeological and Historical Research Centre in Denmark. They have a team of on-site weavers who work on replicating ancient textiles and techniques and have recently begun to sell their Iron Age twill by the meter. Very, very pretty...

http://www.lejre-center.dk/HANDMADE-IRO ... 888.0.html

Trí

[the_power]

That is pretty, and quite reasonable in white. Maybe around the same price for better quality cloth I got from the Sheep & Wool museum in Leenaun, Galway (though mine was dyed, then woven). Are there any reenactors here who sell cloth, or dye cloth, on commission ?

John

[vlasta]

Here's the website of couple from Poland, they have hand-woven and plant-dyed woolen clothes http://fuscher.com.pl/asukna.html , on this German website you can order woolen clothes from traditional sheep breeds, and this company http://www.naturtuche.de/ has madder-dyed and woad-dyed wool , I've got some samples of their textiles, if you're interested.

[the_power]

Any idea what sort of prices they were asking for such cloth ? It's lovely...

John

[vlasta]

I'm not sure, as I've not seen them for some time, the best way would be to mail them and ask for the price list, but I remember, that it wasn't very very expensive. And you may check as well http://www.weavers.ie/ if they know any local dyers, that would save you the hassle with shipping.
Greetings