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Historical Archive: Viking textiles

Oseberg Tapestry: wool and possibly flax, maximum 23 cm high
found with cakes of down, possibly from comforters
all Oseberg textiles: inventory number C55000 377


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Oseberg tapestry
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Oseberg tapestry, left portion
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Oseberg tapestry, right portion, wide segment: women and horse-drawn covered carts, large horse
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Oseberg tapestry, right portion, narrower segment: women and horse-drawn covered carts, large horse
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Oseberg tapestry, right portion: detail, women
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wool textile: standing figures with arms raised, from Oseberg ship
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Oseberg silk bands and weaving tablets
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fragment, wool? from Oseberg ship
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fragment from Oseberg ship
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layered cloth from Oseberg ship
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English embroidery on silk from Oseberg ship, late 8th-early 9th c.
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gold embroidery on silk core, from Gokstad burial dated 895-903, C10459
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plaid cape fragment from Haugen farm, Østfold
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reconstruction of Oseberg tapestry, Mary Storm 1948, © University of Oslo