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A small piece of weaving around a piece of card, with white horizontal threads and dark brown vertical threads forming a diamond pattern.

A small piece of weaving around a piece of card, with white horizontal threads and dark brown vertical threads forming a diamond pattern.

A bookcase with dowels screwed into the shelves to create a warping frame around which a dark brown yarn is wound again and again to make a warp for weaving.

A bookcase with dowels screwed into the shelves to create a warping frame around which a dark brown yarn is wound again and again to make a warp for weaving.

#Weaving in progress for a #6thc #Saxon cloak to be worn by one of our #livinghistory experts at our multi period #reenactment in May.

First, a test square is woven in the broken diamond pattern then the warp made.

#textiletuesday #textile #wool
#earlymedieval #viking #craft #craftsky #woolcraft

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Sun setting behind the round tower at Oughterard in Co. Kildare, Ireland

Sun setting behind the round tower at Oughterard in Co. Kildare, Ireland

Mausoleum of Arthur Guinness (d. 1803), founder of the Guinness Brewery in Dublin

Mausoleum of Arthur Guinness (d. 1803), founder of the Guinness Brewery in Dublin

The beautiful Oughterard, Co. Kildare #Ireland. Site of a monastery founded by St Bríga (not the St Bridget) in #6thc but later burned by Viking king of Dublin, Sitric.

It’s best known as the resting place of Arthur #Guinness, who founded the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in 1759

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