From Analysis to Reconstruction - Fashioning the Viking Age vol. 2

This publication describes the process and results of Project Part 2 in the research and outreach project Fashioning the Viking Age.

This part of the project, focused on the production of two full-size outfits, representing a high-status male and female, based on the preserved textile fragments from two Danish Viking Age burials, Hvilehøj and Bjerringhøj.

The present publication documents the reconstruction process based on the analyses of the selected archaeological finds as well as the decisions and data relevant to produce the final outfits.The process took almost two years, and besides the core project members, it involved several specialist researchers, and craftspeople, whose invaluable skill and commitment has contributed to the finished result.

Fashioning the Viking Age was funded by the VELUX FOUNDATIONS and based at the National Museum of Denmark in close collaboration with the Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen and Land of Legends in Lejre.