A silk headdress from a 10th-century pit at Coppergate, Viking York, via https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/83316661831208610/ …pic.twitter.com/kyrLpPMm2n
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Fragments of a proto-damask silk with a pattern of repeating panthers and griffins from the mid-11th-century tomb of King Edward the Confessor, d. 1066; the silk is various identified as Islamic or Byzantine: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O261251/woven-silk/ …pic.twitter.com/qN2n8sjHks
Two fragments of a 9th-/10th-century silk-embroidered garment from the burnt royal site at Llan-gors, Wales, which copies designs from Central Asian figured silks; one fragment has the charred pattern outlined in white & the other is digitally recoloured: https://museum.wales/articles/2007-05-03/The-Llan-gors-textile-an-early-medieval-masterpiece/ …pic.twitter.com/YyNd6zbsH4
"In the end, does it matter that Harold Godwineson dressed like Elvis Presley...?" — for more on silk in early medieval Britain, see https://www.academia.edu/437405/Acquiring_Flaunting_and_Destroying_Silk_In_Late_Anglo-Saxon_England …pic.twitter.com/iHHFIgDIxi
His crown’s fascinating - looks far too big for his head! How does he keep it on? And is it square? Brilliant illustration though
his gown
three seater throne - the problems of passing the toilet paper
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