Finns det några arkeologiska fynd av vikingatida broderier?
Mammengraven (Bjerringhöj, Jylland, Danmark) som nämns nedan dateras till 970-talet och är en vikingatida mansgrav, en kammargrav.
Då graven undersöktes år 1868 fann man i kammaren ett obränt lik på dunfyllda kuddar, ifört en dräkt, med broderade yllestycken, mönstrade sidenband med guldinslag och kantningar av pälsverk.

"Given the uniqueness of the Mammen find, there is very little basis for confidence in extrapolating how and where embroideries of this type might be used. Manuscript illustrations and embroidered figures show bands of decoration that suggest the placement of tablet-woven brocades, but are less useful for the possible placement of free embroidery. The most similar surviving pieces close in time include semi-circular mantles with scattered or structurally arranged motifs, such as the German (but possibly Byzantine in origin) "star cloak" of Henry II (early 11th century). A piece more similar in concept, in being free embroidery applied directly to the ground fabric, is the tunic of Saint Bathilde, in 7th century France. (The embroidery is in the form of a series of necklaces with pendant cross and medallions.) But these comparisons primarily point out the general lack of context for free embroidery on clothing (especially secular clothing) in this period."
Heather Rose Jones

"One additional type of embroidery that seems to have been practiced even before the Viking Age was the ornamentation of seams. This practice occurred in an earlier related context, on a seam from a seventh-century pillow cover from the Sutton Hoo textiles (Crowfoot, 422), possibly indicating a tradition of some antiquity in north Europe. In the ninth century, one of the Oseberg garment seams is oversewn in some sort of loop stitch with a thread used double (Ingstad, 92). In similar fashion, some of the ninth- and tenth-century Hedeby and Birka finds display corded or braided thread appliqué over the seams (Hägg 1984, 169). The tenth-century Mammen grave contained a wool cushion with embroidery over a seam (Hald, 282)."
Carolyn Priest-Dorman

Länkar:

Anglo-Saxon and Viking Works of the Needle: Some Artistic Currents in Cross-Cultural Exchange
Embroidery from the Tenth Century Viking Grave at Mammen, Denmark
Viking Embroidery Stitches and Motifs