Viking Embroidery

A typology and brief discussion of some stitches that have been discovered on extant textiles from the period between the seventh and eleventh centuries in Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and related cultures.

The purpose of this site is to be a resource centre for those interested in the study and practice of pre-16th century (Dark Ages, Medieval and Renaissance) needlework/embroidery and its techniques.

Some of the sports, games, music, verse, dancing, toys, and other pastimes of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Despite the full agricultural year that most people faced, there was always time for folk to partake in games, challenges, tests of skill and general larking about.

Saxon and Viking rondel embroidery designs suitable for embroideri es for court clothes as worn by the highest classes of English society around the 10th century.

A survey of stitches and motifs employed in embroideries found in a Viking Age context. Includes annotated bibliography.