Reconstruction of a tunic

The fabric in the reconstructed tunic is not based on one specific object, rather on several textile fragments that were examined. The fragments are from a group of “twill cloths” with nine to eleven threads per centimetre. Twill is a basic weave.

The reconstructed is woven in “three-harnesses” twill. This is a technique that is common in artefacts from the Middle Ages, but is rarely used today. Feel the quality!

The warp consists of a salt-and-pepper… single-threaded woollen yarn, while the weft is a little thicker and more loosely-spun woollen yarn, also single-threaded. Both yarns were dyed red before weaving using the classic dye from the roots of the plant rubia tinctorum. The thread density is nine threads per centimetre in the warp and seven to eight threads per centimetre in the weft.