The Hammerum Girl´s dress, Sagnlandet Lejre, (Land of Legends) Denmark

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The Hammerum Girl´s dress, Sagnlandet Lejre, (Land of Legends) Denmark

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Күн бұрын

Reconstruction of the Hammerum Girl`s dress from the Danish Iron Age.
The sheep is sheared, spinning of the wool, the yarn is coloured with plants, setting up the loom,
weaving and sewing of the dress. There is a huge amount of work involved before the dress is ready for use. Produced by Sagnlandet Lejre (Land of Legends)
The original 2000 year old dress can be seen at Museum Midtjylland, Denmark (museummidtjylland.dk)
This film is also available in Danish:
• Hammerum pigens kjole,...
Other films from Sagnlandet Lejre (Land of Legends):
"Challenge of the Past", a 25 min documentary film on different archaeological experiments conducted in Sagnlandet Lejre, Denmark
• Challenge of the Past,...
"The Vikings King´s Hall" at Sagnlandet Lejre, Denmark
12 min documentary film on the recreation of the large VIKING KING`S HALL (English subtitles)
• Viking King´s Hall, do...
"The Egtved Skirt" a short film on the manufacture of the famous Danish Bronze Age skirt
• Famous Bronze Age Egtv...

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@Mojo_3.14 Ай бұрын

This is what I wish historical movie makers would keep in mind. The past was full of color. Even in the iron age men and women wore brightly colored clothing. Not as bright as modern dyes, but it wasn't all brown sack cloths and leather and fur.

@bobloblaw9679 Ай бұрын

hisotircal fiction does not equal a documentary film makers are concerned with creating an overall mood/impression more than sticking with 100% historical accuracy

@oakmaiden2133 Ай бұрын

Actually quite bright. This can be compared in Navajo rugs. Pre-aniline dyed rugs are brighter than what they are now.

@rheinhartsilvento2576 Ай бұрын

@@bobloblaw9679Then make a fantasy movie set on another planet or an alternative reality on this one. Don't claim to set the action in a specific place and time, and make up random bullsh*t because you're too ignorant, lazy, pandering to other ignoramuses, and don't respect your own material and characters. Characters - yes, also fictional ones - exist in a specific reality that is NOT made up. Work with actual reality, and your movie will only be more powerful because of it. Actual reality and lived experience contains all the moods any filmmaker or artist will ever need. And more.

@Mojo_3.14 Ай бұрын

@@bobloblaw9679 Yeah but I can't help but think of Monty Python and the Holy Grail every time I see a historical movie where it's all drab brown and dirt and depression. You know that one scene where it end with the guy screaming "Help, Help! I'm being oppressed!" It starts with them literally mucking about in filth exclaiming what good filth this is. LOL. It's kind of funny to me that other movies unironically think past=covered in filth

@pansepot1490 Ай бұрын

⁠⁠⁠@@Mojo_3.14 you started with a claim about the iron age and then gave as an example a film set in the Middle Ages, which is 2,000 years later. I doubt your assertion that clothing was colorful is realistic. While it’s true that natural dyes were available very early on it’s also true that the range was very limited and some colors were difficult to get, expensive and only worn by the nobility, like the purple of the Roman senators. We have even records of “dress laws” from the Middle Ages that prescribed which types of fabric and colors the different social classes were allowed to wear. But laws aside, I think you conflate what was available with what people could afford. Even nowadays where there’s real poverty there’s filth and depression and in the past the % of the population that lived in poverty was a lot higher than today. The dress shown in this video is a cloth sack. And if it’s been reconstructed based on a burial it probably belonged to a rich person. Tbc, I am not defending filmmakers who do a poor job at historical representation, but even going to other extreme with sweeping claims that lack nuance and solid evidence is wrong imo.

@lisascenic Ай бұрын

The skill of everyone who worked on this project is simply remarkable. I can’t imagine how many hours of labor went into creating this garment.

@bukka6697 Ай бұрын

We take a lot for granted today, don't we? Need a new pair of pants, run down to the store. Sure beats skinning an animal, tanning the leather, cutting it and stitching it into some semblance of wearable attire.

@MsBfromtheD Ай бұрын

Can we take a moment to appreciate the masterful simplicity of the loom?

@JeannetteReed 23 күн бұрын

That loom Soared over my head, but I sure admire your use of the word simplicity! Hat's off to weavers!!!🎉🎉🎉 In classes I learned to take 'off the sheep raw' wool, card, spin. Dye, or not and spin (I embrace advanced technology and got electricity involved), luckily split, into even yarn. Love doing it.Then Crochet up a fine broadcloth. EZ, BUT looms get involved and grinding becomes the pace. That slow realized goal in tangled thread gene jumped out of my pool. My gifted mother could tat. I was unteachable.

@Sally4th_ Ай бұрын

So refreshing to see people who actually know their craft doing reconstructions like this. I've seen too many museum exhibits where what was on the loom was basically sack-cloth that wouldn't keep a light breeze out. Well done to all involved!

@jcortese3300 Ай бұрын

Floor looms must have been a revolution at the time, wow.

@flatlandtigress8685 Ай бұрын

That innovation built Italy’s wealth and funded the Renaissance!

@JessicaCallier Ай бұрын

The explanation of spinning is better than some drop spinning "tutorials"

@jeannerogers7085 Ай бұрын

This vid shows the monumental work that goes into a garment.

@magesalmanac6424 Ай бұрын

Another KZfaq channel by Sally Pointer goes in depth on how to construct this type of loom.

@tineditmarunnerup9513 17 күн бұрын

Sally Pointer is the best. Occasionally she visits Denmark at the Medieval Center in Nykøbing Falster with a bunch of Archeology Students.

@RachelRhiarti Ай бұрын

Oh my goodness, this really was so incredibly well done! The textile creation and use itself, but also the narration of the process too: really interesting and informative. Thank you!

@tenaoconnor7510 Ай бұрын

That was cool 😎 A lot of work went into clothes back then, right up until the industrial age when machines made things easier. Modern people don’t realize how good we have it.

@reubenkendall2525 29 күн бұрын

It is little wonder that weavers and looms were considered magical and powerful. The amount of care and intention and time poured into even the smallest cloth object is truly mind boggling to us now.

@lesley-annmathews7971 Ай бұрын

Even then they knew stripes had to be vertical ;)😂 This is beautiful!!

@rikkansi Ай бұрын

Wow, amazing to be able spin the wool into that thin thread without the wool breaking.

@mahel2002 Ай бұрын

This was an incredibly informative and clear video! Thank you!

@resourcedragon Ай бұрын

It's a shame that the translator wasn't also a crafter, for instance "forged iron shearing scissors" are "forged iron shears". The clay for the weights is baked (even if it wasn't fired), it's not "burnt". "Wool's hairs" are usually referred to as the "wool fibres" The "tiny wad of wool" is usually referred to as fleece, fibre supply, a nest or even a "floof". I'm a bit surprised that they were shown spinning from such small amounts of fibre, I would want to double check that they weren't also using a distaff back in the iron age. The spindle details involved some guess work, as I don't think there are any surviving spindles from the iron age, although there are lots of whorls. The spindle _may_ have been as shown but it could also have been what is called a hand spindle. Less likely but not entirely impossible is a supported spindle. The wool scouring process got left out of this film entirely and they'd have had to do some scouring if they wanted to dye the wool. They may also have used a mordant, otherwise the dye would have been what is called fugitive, that is, it doesn't hang around for long. The actual experimental archaeology they were doing was great and the crafters/archaeologists involved did a wonderful job.

@cadileigh9948 22 күн бұрын

yet miraculusly you who only understand English deciphered what was said in a language foreign to the person who scripted for the narator !

@tineditmarunnerup9513 17 күн бұрын

A supported spindle probably would not spin wool strong enough to become warp. Drop spindles make worsted yarn. Supported spindles usually make woollen yarn. Hand held spindles with a disstaff could have been used.

@RamonaAnne Ай бұрын

Well done! I love seeing so many parts of the process shown. What a tedious job it was to make fabric. And such skill required! I imagine all fabric was treasured and cared for by those who wore it.

@RodCalidge 21 күн бұрын

That was eye opening. I feel lazy and spoiled. We just don't appreciate how hard earned some of life's basic needs are. Thanks for sharing.

@-.-4 Ай бұрын

Beautiful. I’ve been knitting and crocheting for over 65 years. ❤

@taymur0804 Ай бұрын

Such a fascinating work, I find handmade products very natural. My late great grandmother from Pakistan used to spin cotton using the old 'Great Wheel'.

@elainecoll7868 Ай бұрын

Facinating film!!! It is incredibly important to keep these skills active.The colours are wonderful and so much more attractive than synthetic dyes.

@batya7 Ай бұрын

So much care was taken in this presentation to show the skill required for each step of the process. Sheep to shoulders!

@NM-ne3xv Ай бұрын

Have a comment for engagement purposes, because wow, everyone should see this!

@sheep1ewe Ай бұрын

It is pretty cool this fasion still works just as it is today!

@MistressQueenBee 3 күн бұрын

Best learning tool I have ever watched on utube. Many thanks for downloading this. The Great State of Texas.

@myhandsaslanguage Ай бұрын

Beautiful dress! It’s amazing the amount of skill and labor that goes into to each piece of clothing. Even modern clothing (though not half as much as in the past) have so much work put into them. It really reminds me of how valuable our clothing is and why it used to be considered currency in the past.

@TealCheetah Ай бұрын

Shearing scissors in the hands of an expert doesn't take "a long time."

@J_Gamble 20 күн бұрын

Indeed. This fellow needed a bit of practice.

@hnelson5609 Ай бұрын

Mad respect for the skills shown here! I love videos like this! Beautiful work! Thank you for making this.

@bamibestelt 15 күн бұрын

Props to these people for keep preserving the method to educate more generations to come.

@marymarshall5134 Ай бұрын

Fascinating.. I love ancient crafts documentaries.. wow

@jenpink4298 Ай бұрын

This was absolutely fascinating! Thank you so much for putting it together to share with us

@magesalmanac6424 Ай бұрын

What a gorgeous shade of red. Could it have been from madder root?

@razorbackstudiosartchannel2941 Ай бұрын

Or mercury.

@mcstaal Ай бұрын

@@razorbackstudiosartchannel2941 400 years to early. Yes, madder root, also known in Denmark as krap.

@annaolivarez2578 16 күн бұрын

Mind you that these People who did these textiles also had to basically kill a chicken, clean it, cook it and wash dishes afterwards, and that did not include taking care of the livestock, the garden etc. How in the world, these women and men survived is plain heroic to me! Kudos for these artisans who are keeping up with the crafts of their heritage, their culture. : )

@Dirty_Squirrell Ай бұрын

Brilliant explanation of weaving fabric. 👏

@JeannetteReed 23 күн бұрын

A real historically honest masterpiece. Very long ago the qualities put into the dress was appreciated as fine by people exactly as we do. We are in some ways Very like the people who walked out of the first cave. In this, dressing so fine a love for all time, quite fully the same inside.

@carolineramage7480 20 күн бұрын

What a beautiful process and garment.

@keizen7324 Ай бұрын

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

@katipohl2431 Ай бұрын

Amazing. Love and greetings from Germany.

@lmarchand8526 26 күн бұрын

Absolutely amazing. Thank you 🙂

@kirstinfingland1334 Ай бұрын

Wow this is amazing thank you I’ve enjoyed watching this has given me inspiration to go out and learn more

@annalisette5897 Ай бұрын

FASCINATING! THANK YOU! The whole process is so complex!

@magnoliaweathershield443 Ай бұрын

Really excellrnt explanation, and beautifully made. Thank you!

@dalemacinnis3385 Ай бұрын

Excellent. Thank you!

@trex3003 Ай бұрын

Lovely fabric!

@LiaThornegge Ай бұрын

Beautiful crafts

@marksiezure3285 Ай бұрын

Fascinating

@stigyanblue1442 Ай бұрын

Proof all spinsters were on the spectrum: spindles are the ultimate fidget toy.

@nancydb1390 Ай бұрын

I am awestruck.

@gaylejackson6828 21 күн бұрын

Omg these people were brilliant

@user-zb7uh2ob1r Ай бұрын

This is just amazing to me.

@razorbackstudiosartchannel2941 Ай бұрын

The belt would have been woven too.

@ChristianAustinite Ай бұрын

Awesome

@Thirikalee Ай бұрын

This was really intere!

@Thirikalee Ай бұрын

*interesting 😄

@TheRickie41 Ай бұрын

Wonderful.

@sandrataylor3723 Ай бұрын

Wow!

@ing-mariekoppel1637 Ай бұрын

Dress reminding of the Hyksos' clothes in the Egyptian Ibscha relief. Middle bronze age so very long time apart from Hammerum in Post Roman Iron age Notice the red blue and white patterns could hv been wowen of wool. The dark red color looks similar

@UsenameTakenWasTaken Ай бұрын

Incomprehensible knowledge we have, huh? Sorry, it's a bit hard to wrap my head around that statement.

@larsstougaard7097 Ай бұрын

Great

@kachinaneon Ай бұрын

they did not show the cleaning of the wool. it didn't just come off the sheep ready to spin.

@lizadams7662 Ай бұрын

They sheared the sheep. Your script says cut the sheep, which would have been a disgrace to a skilled shearer. Wonderful video though, despite my carp!

@andrewwilson507 Ай бұрын

Our clever girls ;)

@magesalmanac6424 Ай бұрын

Interesting that she beats the weft upwards. Most are beaten downward towards the weaver.

@juliajs1752 Ай бұрын

That's how it was done on on wall-mounted looms. You can't beat the weft downwards on a warp-weighted loom, it would be impossible to roll it up to make more space for further weaving.

@mettevunsjensen4094 Ай бұрын

Spændende. Men hvorfor ikke dansk med engelske undertekster, eller i det mindste danske undertekster?

@SagnlandetLejre Ай бұрын

Filmen findes også på dansk, søg på "Hammerum-pigens kjole" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fJt0asmizbKzoIk.html

@inchb.wigglet640 Ай бұрын

Was this part of a larger documentary? I would be interested to know why they chose not to use a distaff, and why they went with drop spindle (as opposed to support spindle or in hand spindle).

@jsa-z1722 Ай бұрын

I think in the last few seconds you meant”comprehensive “ not “incomprehensible “

@tineditmarunnerup9513 17 күн бұрын

Is the start of the weaving a band weave? Not a tablet weave?

@jenniferfraser1854 Ай бұрын

How many days would that have taken to spin, dye, and weave?

@KlipsenTube 28 күн бұрын

Around 8:08: Shouldn't "incomprehensible" be "comprehensive"?

@YsabetJustYsabet Ай бұрын

Wonderful video! I'm glad people understand that primitive is not a synonym for stupid. However, maybe that was supposed to be 'the comprehensive knowledge,' not 'the incomprehensible knowledge' in the very last sentence? Just a thought.

@citizenVader Ай бұрын

Jeg skal snart forbi jer. Hvolris ligger ikke langt fra Viborg hvor jeg bor, så det er kun fedt at finde flere steder, men det er mest udenfor sæsonen jeg tager rundt.

@dianetheone4059 Ай бұрын

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@lizmnv Ай бұрын

Was the wool washed

@roringusanda2837 Ай бұрын

Definitely had to be, but that's not shown in this video

@user-xf6co1le2s Ай бұрын

The shepherds dog leads them in not the shepherd

@MINI-ME666 Ай бұрын

THIS is early stone age tools

@ing-mariekoppel1637 Ай бұрын

A rich girl of high status ?

@Tusya7919 13 күн бұрын

Испортили такой плед!!! 😅 Взяли и надели...

@cya2163 Ай бұрын

never let it be said that iron age people were unsophisticated...bc I'm fairly confident that as a modern age human, all I heard as the narrator described the process was blah, blah, blah and I know I could never do what was just demonstrated...