Pretty piccies...

[stellar_muddle]

So, any very late period Vikings/Normans wish to raid/visit Byzantium and pick up this?
Deep Purple Silk Dalmatic of 1130-40 (with pearls)
Have access to silk...
Will check out rest of Medieval beadwork website later, plot up model stars now with solar sodium abundance.

Comments

[sandhi.livejournal.com]

That garment was the inspiration for my bliaut (the decoration, not the cut) which it occurs to me you won't actually have seen... hang on, here's a picture:

http://www.paradise.gen.nz/~sloth/041105/html/041106dw.html

[stellar-muddle.livejournal.com]

Very cool:) You went for embroidery rather than beadwork?

[sandhi.livejournal.com]

The gold is couched embroidery... I don't know if you can get those gold tube bead thingies these days but I imagine it would cost the earth to get enough. Pearls around the outside are 2.5mm fake plastic ones.

[stellar-muddle.livejournal.com]

Wow. The photo resolution doesn't quite do the decoration justice:) Likely to get any closer in piccies of that?

[sandhi.livejournal.com]

Probly not... can show you when you're over tho.

It kinda looks a bit naff too close up actually because of the plastic-ness of the pearls.