Some Features of 2011 Apron dress Fashion Worldwide

Most people who make Viking era costumes are aware that wool is an easy fiber to dye with natural vegetable dyes.  They, therefore usually choose to wear wool dyed (either by vegetable or modern chemical means) in various vibrant shades that can be achieved with natural dyes:  reds, blues, yellows, greens, oranges, even purples.  I have done so myself. 

But proof that our forebears could have done something in a particular way is by no means proof that they did things in that way.  As  I learn more archaeological textile evidence comes in from Scandinavia, and from northern Europe in general, I wonder whether clothing colors weren't more stereotyped than most costumers and refractors would like to believe.  

Consider:

• The two largest apron dress fragments known (i.e., the pleated fragment from Køstrup, and the folded one from Pskov) were both the same color--blue.  (The fragment appears lighter today; apparently the chemical process by which woad dyes fabric partially reverses itself when the fabric is buried under the right conditions.
• The next largest fragment, from Hedeby (though not so definitively identified as part of an apron dress), was dyed brown.
• To the extent she could identify color in the Birka textiles, Inga Hägg found only two colors: brown and dark blue (as discussed in Hilde Thunem's article in progress about the evidence for Viking apron dresses).
• Viking age finds made in the Baltic areas (Latvia, Lithuania) show a pattern; white undergarments (shirts, women's shifts) over which clothes are worn in...dark blue and brown.  This is particularly true of Latvia, where testing has revealed that overdresses and tunics were  dark blue and other garments were either made from unbleached linen or from undyed wools. Colors other than white, dark blue, or the browns and grays of undyed wools (red, yellow, green) appear only as accents, e.g.,, as stripes and other motifs found in woven belts.  
• Most of the apron dress loops that survive are of undyed linen (whether or not any other surviving portions of the garment were also of linen). 

Not all of these textiles have been analyzed for the presence of dye, but some have, tending to confirm the trend.

There are certainly archaeological textiles that were dyed in other colors, such as the reds of the Evebo find.  But it is striking that all of the finds that are likely to have come from apron dresses or similar overdresses seem to have been either blue or brown.  This restriction may be due to the limitations of our samples and other information, but it might reflect genuine information about such garments.  Were apron dresses blue or brown because they were *supposed* to be--just as Victorian men suits were typically black?  Maybe Viking women didn't wear red?  Maybe green was too difficult to get right, or yellow insufficiently high-status to use in such a garment? 

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