Dress & Symbolism

Attire, textiles, and adornment as cultural expression and identity markers.

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globalnyt.dk > woven-into-silk-and-national-pride

Woven into silk and national pride

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (963+ words) You may have heard of “Chinamaxxing” – the social media trend in which young people in the West adopt elements of Chinese culture. But in China, too, traditional Chinese culture is experiencing a resurgence, with young people embracing traditional attire. Whether…...


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1,300-Year-Old Viking Dress Found in Young Woman's Tomb in Denmark

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (86+ words) Finds recovered from the Skonager tomb, including the brooches and preserved textile fragments. (Arkæologi Vestjylland) Similar preservation has allowed rare glimpses of Viking-era jewelry and textiles elsewhere in Scandinavia, but seldom in Denmark itself. The researchers examining one of the…...


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A Viking Woman’s Brooches Preserved Fragments of Her 1,300-Year-Old Clothing — Curiosmos

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (653+ words) Fragments of clothing have survived inside an eighth-century Viking woman’s grave in western Denmark, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study what she wore. The pieces were found attached to two concave "scoop" brooches from a burial at Skonager, near…...