What did Iron Age women wear? (cir. 300-200BCE, NW Europe / Britain)
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- Опубликовано: 6 апр 2023
- After many questions and chats, here are the two examples of Iron Age clothes I use myself when portraying crafts and life around 300-200BCE, both based on finds from a bog in Denmark (original in Mational Museum of Denmark):
--- the Huldremose Woman's ensemble.
(a woolen skirt, a woolen shall, 2 sheepskin cloaks that I don't have replicas of yet AND an undertunic made of vegetal materials, be it linen, nettle fibres or else. This is the newly discovered element: the Huldremose Woman being a bog body, all vegetal fibres have been eaten away by the acidity of the bog. But on her thigh researchers found a print of a woven fabric in vegetal fibres... prooving she wore an under-tunic / undergarment that has simply disappeared in the bog, protecting her skin from the wool and the wool from sweat and dirt... as it seems to have always been the case through history!)
I added shoes found in another bog from roughly the same time period, and woolen hoses / tall socks made of fabric copied from an italian find from the mid Iron Age. I believe many people whould have been barefoot in shoes or without them, depending on jobs, season, weather etc... but I, as a modern period interpreter, need my socks in the winter!
--- the Huldremose Peplos.
Found in the same bog as the above, but not in connection. It's not seen as a 2nd garment belonging to the same lady! Also.. it could simply be a piece of cloth and not a peplos. It could be a mattress bag for all we know: It has been found in the 19th c. and ... washed. dried. ironed... before being sent to the museum and curators of the time. So the folds shown in the museum photos have been ''made'' for the display maaaany years ago not found on the garment. Big difference!
Anyhow - there are many depictions and mentions of Iron Age women around Gaul, Germania, Dacia, etc wearing a peplos or ''tube dress'' like this. Over an undertunic made of vegetal fibres MOST probably: it's both logical, has been done for millenias and is the case on the Huldremose Woman's outfit from the same spot and same time period.
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one day I'll do a video about hair styles too ;)
- When is the Iron Age?
''Iron Age'' in Britain is usually 800BC to 43AD, date of the Roman conquest by Claudius. In France, 800BC-52BC (battle of Alesia and Roman conquest).
For me... well... there is a very early iron ring found in Scotland dating back to 900BC, and I consider 52BC as the ''end'' of the Iron Age as I come from France myself!
So here: 900BCE to 100BCE is what I research mainly in terms of ''Iron Age'' life. Before much Roman contact with Britain. But eh, you do you ;)
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Okay, just give me more tv like THIS. Thanks, Ladies!
I love how cozy it looks. Its reminecent of sweatpants and blankets.
It genuinely looks so comfy!
They had very soft wool back then, plus nettle and linen clothing which is very comfortable and breathable. They wore very comfortable clothing
Oh yes, love this! I really appreciate the breakdown of fabric, how it's sewn, how it's put on, and then how it's worn. You understand so much more that way than in still pictures. Thanks!
As a person who sews, I am amazed at the size of the wool pieces. They seem to have been woven on an enormous loom, even the checked oval with its single seam. Interesting!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
as bad as it is for history and our understanding of the culture, props to that woman for being willing to wash clothing that had been in a bog for a thousand+ years lol
they dress better than people today
Grew up sleeping in wool blankets and I still prefer wool socks and wool blankets.
Wonderful!
My wife Marion has been struggling to get her headscarf looking as neat and secure as yours - could you do a video demonstration please? That would be great thanks!
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This was very informative. I certainly learned a great deal.
I really love the giant oval cloak. I would love something like it in a cozy type textile. Maybe with a really fun fastener.
I'd give anything to go back to living in a close-knit tribe like this!
Are there not quite a few communes and communities around?
Or tightly woven!
Lovely video, thank you so much, I'm just sorry I came to it so late! I'll check out the channel. I really want to visit that place now
More iron age videos! Love them.
I'm so happy to have found this channel!! I love historical clothing and textiles! I bought my daughter a tablet woven belt very similar to the one you used. I've learned lucet weaving and made wonderful trim and cordage with it. I thought about learning tablet weaving, but.... good lord, is that complicated! And worth every penny by the craftspeople who still do it by hand! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge of the Iron Age!
It LOOKS complicated and confusing. But magically, when I watch the videos, a beautiful woven pattern emerges. It's inexplicable!
very nice
This is an incredible video! thanks so much for sharing.
Fans of Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker might like to know that the experimental Neolithic farm at Buster was a great source for the farms in the novel.
This is brilliant!! Thank you. I'd like to also know how to do the head wrap.
I come from the South of the Netherlands and that also applies to almost all my ancestors. I hate woolen clothes. My mother knitted wool underwear, but it gave me a bad rash. Maybe that's why there are non-wool undergarments.
I love the subtle vegetable dyes. The colours are so much nicer than the hard acid colours people wear today,but they are not so colour fast as modern dyes.
Most natural dyes are perfectly colorfast and permanent. Some are fugitive, but it's quite easy to make beautiful dyebaths from many natural materials, such as lichens that could give a beautiful magenta, or various mushrooms, woad, etc.
The past was colorful!
Perfect! A great addition to my La Tene 2 costumes! Love your Embroidery!
I love her enthusiasm......and her accent
Was just trying to figure that out. I am thinking Brittany, but been in Britain for a long time. Would love to be able to ask her.
French non? She said she's French n'est-ce pas?
@@GiGiGoesShopping Yes, but there isn't one single French accent. Parisians don't sound like Alsacians don't sound like Brettons.
Just lovely.
Hair styles/coverings would be amazing
Excellent!
Coolest job ever!!
No headwear? Plus, could we have a video for men please?
I think I'd be nicking the cloak & sheepskins tbh! Especially for a snowy ride on horseback... 🏇
Greek and roman sources mention that most Celtic iron age women doesn't wear any head dress but just let it hang long.
@@wewenang5167 Thank you! Living in the UK I've had both long, wild hair & a .5cm all-off and I know which one I prefer in winter! 😆
That's alot of layers, would drive me nuts 😂.
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So interesting.
Great. No background music needed though!
I'd wear that definitely.
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I was wondering if you knew the wraps per inch (wpi) of the yarn used to make the huldramose skirt, the diameter of the yarn thanks for any help
Very cool. How about a video for men?
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What type of fabric is the tunic undervthe wool clothes?
How is that yellow and black checked cloak made? It doesn’t look woven. It’s a beautiful textile.
Having done a bit of hand-weaving, a check/block pattern like that would be fairly do-able, even in a standing frame loom. You'd have to dye two lots of warp and weft separately, and set it up for a double-weave - which would make it more costly/labour-intensive
@@krysab6125This girl weaves !
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerum_Cloak
It is a very special pattern without any dye. Just natural dark and light wool.
there are whole groups of people in Asia minor and Russia that still dress like this.
I could easily wear these to Orthodox church in the US. I have only attended parishes in the South and in TX, so I cannot speak for if that would go over well elsewhere.
Are you dropping nettle into that pot in the beginning with your bare hands?!
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How many times did they give birth?
“By analysing bioarchaeological remains and using computer simulations, we were able to reach several important conclusions about Europe’s Neolithic fertility increase,” explains Stefanovic. “This includes our finding that the average Neolithic woman bore between 8 and 10 children.”
@@elizabethdarley8646 I wonder how similar that is to the Iron Age. Interesting though, seems very high. A lot higher than the neolithic where I'm from.
I doubt if many made it to adulthood though.@cmur078
May I ask how you know all this ,,, im sure there were no books written during that time ,
Often, bodies buried in peat bogs are well preserved with their clothes preserved as well because the peat doesn’t allow air in and thus prevents decomposition. She describes specific bog body discovery early in the video. We know about the textiles because of bog bodies and written descriptions of what people wore.
Colorful, clean, dressed to their best. So much for the “dirty western European peasant” tropes.
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Please stop adding background music! It is so distracting….
Is she speaking English?
Yes.
Interesting content but the music is annoying.
I agree that music is extremely annoying I stop watching
I hear some background music. Irritating. Bad video.
Pity you didn't stick around for the whole video and actually learn something before writing it off via superficial means.
This music is HIDEOUS. I was really interested in this video content, and couldn’t get past the totally distracting, incongruous Muzak.
More iron age videos! Love them.