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Felt hood 1800BC. We don't know exactly when and where Zarathushtra lived. Most historians, however, believe that he lived in ancient Margiana or Bactria in today's Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan around 1800 BC to 1200 BC. This period is known as the Bronze Age. In this period people learned to mix tin with copper to make bronze, which could be cast in different shapes like this bronze seal from 1600 BC. In Central Asia, Bronze Age started around 2200 BC and continued until 1200 BC. What did Bronze Age people of Central Asia do? In Central Asia, most Bronze Age people were herdsmen. Some of these nomads were fierce warriors. They attacked farmers destroying their crops and stealing their properties. Some people worked as traders. One important gemstone was lapis lazuli, which came from northern Afghanistan.

Others were skillful artisans. This alabaster head and jewelry on the right, for example, were found in Margiana. At the time of Zarathushtra some people decided to settle down and farm their fields.

Felted Hats

Modern Felt Hat construction. Felt hats by its production technology can be divided into: Solid felted ala-kiyiz hats: a pattern is put with wool fibers and felted on by wet felting; Stitched hats: hat details are cut out of felt sheets and sewn together: Process of making stitched felt hats. The fitter cuts out fabricated parts by hat patterns of necessary size and model: then it goes to production facility of embroidery. Here embroider master selects fiber according to special table of color and embroider on a tambour machine according to fixed pattern, preliminarily making ornament on a fabricated part with a chalk The next step is gathering of details and finishing products with hand embroidery (“tambour dot”, etc.)

A form is given on a special hat block with the help of smoothing iron: A backing cloth (cotton canvas) is dyed in a tone of felt of which product is made. Master stitches a label and performs steam-ironing of the finished product according to the size on a hat block. Federova E.G. Secrets of the Silk Road, HMNS : un album sur Flickr. Felt items throughout History project: The Tarim River Basin Mummies | Adventures in Wool Addiction. I am working on compiling a list of all the extant felt items I can find in historical order. First the Tarim Mummies and related finds then I will move on to S. I. Rudenko’s “Frozen Tombs of Siberia” and work on the Sycthian finds followed by Aural Stein’s finds. This is a quick overview for historical reenactors in research for arts and sciences projects and as a simple jumping off point to help educate those unfamiliar with the long and amazing history of Felt.

This doesn’t represent every single felt find and is meant to whet the appetite for deeper research into the subject and not as a comprehensive guide. The first reference I have found to felt comes from J.P. Mallory and Victor H. The felt in the pictures of the mummy, named Ur-David, is beautiful and extremely colorful like roving for sale currently on Esty.com or eBay and just as bright as any acid dyed piece. Felt Hat Baby with Blue Bonnet and another at. Early Medieval Footwear from Moshchevaya Balka. Construction All of the footwear from Moshchevaya Balka is of soft materials and without a seperately sewn-on sole, and has a fabric lining of raw linen which matches the form of the shoe and in many cases is sewn into it at the opening. Traces of grass stuffing still survive in one shoe - this form of insulation is very common among mountain dwellers of the Northern Caucasus to this day. As a rule footwear was made of tanned (also alum-tawed) goathide, rather thick but supple.

Such shoe leather has been called ‘yuft’ in Russia since ancient times. The hide is normally coloured black as a result of the manufacturing process - softening with chalk and clay, cleaning, tanning, greasing, drying, rolling, and scraping. All of the shoes are very carefully made - the cut is well thought out and precisely put together (Figure 1). Secrets of the Silk Road - Gallery. (Pazyryk extant finds) Н. В. Полосьмак - Всадники Укока : фотографии Разное. The pilgrim's cloak of Stephan Praun, c.1571 (felt & leather) by German School, (16th century) Availability Image size(s) High-res TIFF, 50.00MB, 3943px x 4433px High-res JPEG, 9.80MB, 3943px x 4433px Details IMAGE number Title The pilgrim's cloak of Stephan Praun, c.1571 (felt & leather) Creator German School, (16th century) Nationality German Description Pilgermaentel; Praun (1544-91) was the son of a Nuremberg businessman, he wore this cloak on a pilgrimmage to Santiago di Compostella in 1571; Location Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany Medium felt and leather Date 16th (C16th) Credit The pilgrim's cloak of Stephan Praun, c.1571 (felt & leather), German School, (16th century) / Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany / Bridgeman Images Keywords Categories.

Viking Masks. Dear Viking Answer Lady: 'tis the season... Halloween season that is. This being my favorite holiday of the year I thought you would be able to tell me if the Vikings celebrated anything like it. Were there costumes? (signed) Not Wearing the Plastic Viking Hat Another Year Gentle Reader: The Vikings did not celebrate Halloween, and while they had a major celebration at near the same time of year, it did not involve costumes or masquerades. Three annual festivals appear to have been known and celebrated throughout Viking Age Scandinavia. Þá skyldi blóta í móti vetri til árs en að miðjum vetri blóta til gróðrar, hið þriðja að sumri. The division of the year into three seasons among the Germanic peoples appears to be quite ancient, for Tacitus says in his Germania, chapter 26: Nec enim cum ubertate et amplitudine soli labore contendunt, ut pomaria conserant et prata separent et hortos rigent: sola terrae seges imperatur.

Two views of sheep mask from Haithabu, shown flat and formed into shape.