free book on Viking textiles

[filkferengi]

from the Bujold list:


Woven into the Earth: Textile Finds in Norse Greenland by Else Ostergard

Free PDF for December, quick !

Free (DRM-free PDF) Woven into the Earth [1300s Norse Clothing & Methods
Archaeology]

Woven into the Earth: Textile Finds in Norse Greenland by Else ?sterg?rd is
the English-language version of her lavishly-illustrated mostly
layperson-comprehensible comprehensive academic overview of historical
Viking Age and medieval Norse textile finds from the Herjolfsn?s settlement
(Wikipedia DK) in Greenland, along with plenty of backgrounder information
on the accompanying archaeological excavations, period era materials and
methods, modern exhibitions, etc., courtesy of the Aarhus University Press
in Denmark.

This is their featured English-language Free Ebook of the Month selection
for December, and is really very nifty, and teach you a great deal about not
just what people wore and where it was found, but also how they preserved
the finds and what they learned from each garment and accessory, and the
tools and techniques of the entire Norse Greenlandic textile manufacturing
industry, such as it was.

There is a companion book, Medieval Garments Reconstructed: Norse Clothing
Patterns, which is also pretty nifty and was once offered as a previous
FBotM selection over a year ago,

http://en.unipress.dk/m%C3%A5nedens-gratis-e-bog/