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Dr Alexandra Makin

Specialist in early medieval embroidery. Interested in early medieval material culture and its place in society.

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From our family walk this morning.

Here’s a sneaky peek at project one.

📕New book alert 📖

📣 This month’s Early Medieval (mostly) Textiles blog post is now live 📣

So today I’m transferring the first design onto this gorgeous handwoven wool fabric, which was made for me by the amazing @art.and.textiles It’s based on the broken diamond twill found in the Ship Burial at Sutton Hoo. The threads are fine worsted wool by @devereyarns The colours and the embroidery design are based on the tiny fragment from Kempston. All the originals date to the 7th century.

Drawing out designs for my new project.

This blog engages with textiles and their cultural history from a period that we today commonly describe by using terms such as Anglo-Saxon and Viking. This is an inclusive site and does not misappropriate or support the use of these or any other terms in order to promote racist ideologies. The administrator reserves the right to remove offensive content.

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