Alicja Jaczewska (Adalheidis)

Ink drawings, paper cutouts, leatherworks and jewellery

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Osebergfunnet - sprang and slyngvev, and soumak

Osebergfunnet – sprang and slyngvev, and soumak

In the Osebergfunnet IV Tekstilene book, on pages 207 and 208, you will find mention of “slyngvev” and “soumak”. There’s A LOT of confusion regarding this topic.

On the pages of forest.gen.nz we can find the following information:

“There are also indications that the Oseberg queen wore a linen veil on her head. It is imprinted, as we have seen in the illustration 205, on a flake of down and is…

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Birka grave 977, band B8

Birka grave 977, band B8

The Swedish museum, Historiska museet, added more – high resolution – pictures of some of the Birka bands. Thanks to this we can now expand Agnes Geijer’s work and decipher more patterns. I hope they will never stop adding more and more high res photos ❤

The very tiny band from grave 977 with the pattern b8, is really extraordinary, because it uses only 7 cards for the pattern, but still you can…

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finished bag, holds 4 beers 😁🍺

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finished bag, holds 4 beers 😁🍺

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making Skjoldehamn belt

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Gold thread embroidery - bad bad bad idea...

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Finished... took probably 10xtimes longer then it would with proper heddle 😂 I think the pattern is Ukrainian or Latvian

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Finished... took probably 10xtimes longer then it would with proper heddle 😂 I think the pattern is Ukrainian or Latvian

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Finished... took probably 10xtimes longer then it would with proper heddle 😂

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Finished... took probably 10xtimes longer then it would with proper heddle 😂

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Finished... took probably 10xtimes longer then it would with proper heddle 😂

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Finished... took probably 10xtimes longer then it would with proper heddle 😂

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Once 3m are finished, this 5mm Oseberg band in green and light pink will be available as ready-to-ship 🌹

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I've never done pick up before, I don't have the right tools, but - I'm Alice and such trivialities won't stop me 😁

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Weaver! Secure your threads before travelling! 😂 (w: Centrum Słowian i Wikingów Wolin Jomsborg Vineta)

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Finally, I put up the custom band offers on etsy.com/shop/dailyviking I sincerely hope the prices will scare people off, I still have so much work to do... 😂

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2,5 m of Oseberg-inspired band. Now I need to make 2,5 m more 😀