Throwback Thursday – Design school projects – Exalted Blazer project (part 3)

The cover of the design book I made for the fictional mini-line, Exalted.

In the efforts to clean up some of my sewing and crafting area, I’m going through a bunch of my old projects from Design School. Although I’ll be recycling most of the posters, I also have some smaller presentations I thought I’d share here too before either storing them – or recycling them too.

This is going to be an image-heavy project, so I’m breaking it up into three parts.

Part one covered the project itself, blazers and shirts.  Read it here.

Part two showed off trousers and the accent jacket. Read it here.

Today’s post will show off the dress and skirts.

Throwback Thursday – Design school projects – Exalted Blazer project (part 2)

The cover of the design book I made for the fictional mini-line, Exalted.

In the efforts to clean up some of my sewing and crafting area, I’m going through a bunch of my old projects from Design School. Although I’ll be recycling most of the posters, I also have some smaller presentations I thought I’d share here too before either storing them – or recycling them too.

This is going to be an image-heavy project, so I’m breaking it up into three parts.

Part one covered the project itself, blazers and shirts.  Read it here.

Today’s post will show off trousers and the accent jacket, and the third post will show off the dress and skirts.

Dating and placing my Viking Age style bling – beads from Denmark

The next set of images is from Denmark Viking Age finds, which interestingly enough represent a lot of the reproductions that I originally bought while in Iceland.

Denmark

Viking Age beads from Ribe, Denmark

Another inspiring image (original on Pinterest) is this collection of beads from Ribe, Denmark. This collection includes barrel beads (long cylinders) with glass stripes that go around the bead. Here they appear to be blue/yellow stripe, red/yellow stripe, blue/light blue stripe, and blue/white stripe. Sometimes the middle stripe is more of a wiggle. The stripes are all opaque, but it’s hard to tell if the base is transparent or opaque. Tillerman beads shows a number of other embellished barrel beads, all of which are opaque.

Throwback Thursday – Design school projects – Exalted Blazer project (part 1)

The cover of the design book I made for the fictional mini-line, Exalted.

In the efforts to clean up some of my sewing and crafting area, I’m going through a bunch of my old projects from Design School. Although I’ll be recycling most of the posters, I also have some smaller presentations I thought I’d share here too before either storing them – or recycling them too.

This is going to be an image-heavy post, so I’m going to break it up into three parts.

This first post will let you know a bit about the project, and then highlight the blazers and shirts. The second post will feature the trousers and accent jacket, and the third post will finish off with the dress and skirts.

Dating and placing my Viking Age style bling – beads from Sweden

The vast majority of inspiration photos of beads from historic finds are from Sweden. This means there are a LOT of entries in this post. Visit my last “Dating & Placing” post to see how this got started.

Birka, Sweden

I looked at the Swedish History Museum’s bead examples (they have a great Flickr stream) and found it very useful to start building a spreadsheet. The first example I started with is a full necklace with glass, rock crystal, carnelian, amber and silver. This was a grave find from (Birka) Björkö, Adelsö, Uppland, Sweden. From the centre there is some symmetry – there is a central pendant, then a clear crystal, brown bead, green, clear, green, pendant, yellow…. then a blue on one side black and white on the other, yellow, crystal, crystal, carnelian, two crystals, carnelian, and then sort of a jumble of other beads. Unfortunately, it’s unknown who would have strung these… and if the symmetry represents the find, or just the preference of who strung it in the museum for display. The necklace is labeled as SHM 34000:Bj 642 

In my spreadsheet, I’ve noted the beads as “Sweden Bj 642”