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Tablet braid. The Vault of Valhalla's Mammen Style Brooches. Kievan. Viking women: Clothing: Aprondress (smokkr) By Hilde Thunem (hilde@thunem.priv.no) (Last updated February 25th 2014) This article focuses on the garment that was worn by Viking women together with the characteristic oval brooches.

Viking women: Clothing: Aprondress (smokkr)

The garment has often been referred to as an aprondress (hängerock) by the archaeologists, but Thor Ewing points out that the term "smokkr" used in the Viking poem Rígsþula may be the contemporary name (Viking clothing p. 37). Iduna_crafts. Iduna Crafts is run by Michele who has been making outfits for re-enactors and friends since 2004.

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Michele supplies direct to the public top quality handmade Viking, Saxon garments and embroidery. Viking, Anglo Saxon and Norman Age garments See the Iduna Crafts website here. Kram Silviage: Bielizna ♥ Vlaardingen Shoe. Vlaardingen, Holland, (Het Waaigat site, 1991) Low cut shoe with decorated edge. 9th – 10th Century Parallel shoe from Gdansk, Poland (Wiklak 1960) Classified as a one piece upper with thong fastening.

Vlaardingen Shoe

Similar one piece upper shoes with thong fastening dated 11th Century in England, York and Piccadilly with distribution across northern Europe to Poland. This shoe appears in Stepping Through Time, by Olaf Goubitz on page 139 figure 8a. and the shoe is typed and cataloged in Leather and Leatherworking in Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York 17/16 by Quita Mould, Ian Carlisle and Esther Cameron.