Shroud of Charlemagne, pictured in quadriga: silk, made in Constantinople 9th AD, Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris.pic.twitter.com/OFclRqOvSj
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Not so well preserved, but still nice--6th-9thC shoes, Egypt, suggested made for a priest? http://art.thewalters.org/detail/77402/pair-of-shoes/ …pic.twitter.com/hFca3Z6h6p
@caitlinrgreen Still in Pakistani villages people wear such shoes. I remember i wore them as a child but they hurt my foot :)
@Umarkarim89 Interesting, thank you! They look so soft too, but I guess not?
@caitlinrgreen The villagers normally hv hard lives and work in fields so their feet are quite rough so not a problem for them
@Umarkarim89 ah, ok---makes sense, I guess.
@caitlinrgreen This is a traditional Khussa (the local shoe name) wore here in Punjab province of Pakistanpic.twitter.com/y8629Uvm8m
@Umarkarim89 oh, wow, v similar in nature, as you say :)
@caitlinrgreen These ones are for ladies and they are indeed fabulous :)pic.twitter.com/3l3yuB4BjC
@caitlinrgreen you remember the pictures of leather shoes I sent you they were quite similar to these ones
@caitlinrgreen I am thinking the hands who made them are always the same and endure the same labour
@Umarkarim89 I think you're exactly right
@caitlinrgreen everyone focuses on the creation but not on the artisan who made it reality :(
@Umarkarim89 Often true, though the Jorvik Viking centre at York does focus a lot on their lives--worth visit if get chance :)
@caitlinrgreen well lets hope some nice professor like you accepts me as a student and I can get the opportunity to visit all such places:)
@Umarkarim89 absolutely! :)
For comparison, some of the shoes recovered from Jorvik (Viking York) ): via http://jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/about-jorvik/gallery/ …pic.twitter.com/aEtNQOcdzi
@caitlinrgreen Feet got colder in Jorvik.
@HipBookfairy lol! One suspects so :)
@caitlinrgreen @Phyllida1234 Was it necessary to rob this woman's grave? Will I be safe in my coffin from collectors?
@Longhouses1 @Phyllida1234 I don't know the circumstances of the find, but as a general point many museum exhibits come from such contexts >
@Longhouses1 @Phyllida1234 > so, to answer your question, no, you probably won't be... But burials have never been very sacrosanct. Where >
@Longhouses1 @Phyllida1234 > I live, eg, new graves regularly unearthed and split coffins buried only a few yrs before well into the 19thC.
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