Archeon Vikingmarket

It was a really great weekend. The weather was fine, sunny but not too hot. I didn't get round to do any viking whipcording like I had planned. When I wasn't chatting with my friends I was sewing my Frankish dress.

I even did some cooking!

My son had a new bow, his first real bow, not a toy. And if it had been up to him he would have practised with it all day. 

Here he is make dice out of bone. He's becoming quite a craftsman!

Unfortunately this lovely picture of my two men is out of focus, but I love it so much that I am sharing it anyway.

Viking Whipcording

I first saw this technique five years ago at the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum. Although it looked quite complicated two girls where doing it and having a lot of fun in the meantime. We took the explantion with us, but unfortunately it was in Danish. The leaflet got lost and I forgot about the whole idea.

Earlier this year at the Pfingsten Vikingmarket at the Archeon a female visitor complained about all the viking women doing the same crafts. There isn't really much choice to begin with and somehow we always seem to pick the same thing simultaneously. One event everyone is nalebinding the other one everyone seems to be sewing... When I started to thing about a different textile technique I remembered whipcording but didn't know the name anymore. Untill I bought the book Viking dress, clothing by Nille Glaesel.

With our next viking event coming up fast. Remko decided to make me some wooden bobbins.

This is how our first cord turned out.

Here Remko is teaching our son Myrddin the technique.

And like the girls at the viking museum he like make the cord this way.

Time for me the read up on the history of the technique. 

http://www.northernneedle.net/Research/whipcord.pdf

http://www.medieval-baltic.us/whipcords.pdf

Pity that not all pictures load... http://genvieve.net/sca/whipcording-howto.html

http://www.medieval-baltic.us/whipcords.html

Whipcording for one person http://www.eithni.com/Whipcordingdemo.htm

The leaflet of thee RoskildeVikingship Museum in english http://genvieve.net/sca/interlocking.pdf

Whipcord braiding bobbins http://www.willadsenfamily.org/sca/danr_as/bobbins/bobbins.htm

Whipcord bobbin construction http://wymarc.com/artifacts/artifacts.php 

Really nice but expensive...  http://www.spanishpeacock.com/catalog/viking_whipcord_bobbins.htm

Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsVymiiLo40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BhtYVYmtOg

New hope

Remember the light blue (alice blue) dress that I couldn't get to work?

Yesterday I bought this pattern, it looks exactly like the top I was looking for.

I came in today, by e-mail it's a pdf-file and I couldn't wait to puzzle the pattern pieces together.

So this is how it looks now. I hope I can start on making the mock-up model today, but first I have to do some household chores like ironing :S

If you are following me on pintrest you've seen it already, but for those of you who don't here it is.

I do....

Trip Denmark 2012; Ribe - Home

Before saying our final goodbye to Ribe. We went to the Ribe VikingeCenter for some more shopping....

I had been thinking about buying the book Viking by Nille Glaesel the whole vacation. And  finally decided to buy it. Eventhough it was way out of my budget. Ofcourse both men left with something from the museumshop as well. A  little less expensive things though!

We to a long break in Schleswig, Germany to visit  the viking market. It was raining and the market was very crowed so we didn't take any pictures.

And after a lot of more hours in the car, it was home sweet home.

Trip Denmark 2012; Stovorde - Ribe

Today we travelled back from Stovorde to Ribe. Where we will be staying a night before travelling back home to the Netherlands.

Our original plan was to visit the Moesgard Vikingmarket but when we arrived it was raining heavily. As we spend enough tiem at vikingmarkets in the rain. We went to the museum instead.

One of the things on display was this really interesting silver Valkyrie. Unfortanetly I forgot to write down the information about it.

Not all things where historical on this trip. Here my son and I are playing Smurf Village. In the mincabin we rented for the night at Ribecamping.

I had forgotten to bring a nalebinding needle and some wool. The shop at the Lindholm Hoje visitors center sold packages with the book Nalebinding step by step, a cow horn needle (I collect nalebinding needles) and wool. So ofcourse I had to buy one.

Trying the new stitch in front of our cabin in Ribe.

Trip Denmark 2012; Aggersborg

After seeing the Fyrkat Ringfortress, Aggersborg was a little dissapointing. It is clear that it used to be much bigger than Fyrkat but there is little left of it.

The 11th century church next to it stole our hearts.

Trip Denmark 2012: Vikingecentre Fyrkat and Fyrkat

The last two days we spend in the garden and on the beach. Finally we had some days of summer. We have a really bad summer this year in Europe, and  so we decided to enjoy the sunshine to the fullest.

The weather is still really nice but the temperature is a little lower, so we have a little more energy. Today we visited the Fyrkat Vikingcenter and the Fyrkat reconstruction.

View of the vikingcenter from the reconstructed longhouse

reconstructed longhouse

Fyrkat