The wools in the Swedish bocksten costume |
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Authors: | M. L. Ryder |
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Affiliation: | 1. ARC Animal Breeding Research Organisation, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JQ, Scotland |
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Abstract: | Wool fibre measurements defining fleece type are described from the cloth in the Bocksten costume dated about 1350 and kept in the Varbergs Museum, Sweden. Over 80% belonged to hairy types, the remainder coming from the modern true medium or primitive generalised medium types. Three quarters of the wools had natural pigment giving a grey colour.The findings accord with the fleece of the native Swedish Landrace sheep, but fibre diameter measurements were closer to those of the 17th century Wasa textiles, than to fleece measurements of the surviving Goth remnant of the Swedish Landrace. |
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Keywords: | Sweden bocksten wool costume medieval land-race sheep goth sheep |
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