While looking for period tents, a friend came across this picture! I love it :)
It's not every day you see Anglo-saxon women preparing a warp and weaving under a pavilion :)
There is so much to see in this picture. The women's clothing, the furniture, the pavilion, and the loom.
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The canopy over their heads looks like depictions of tiles in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, so I suspect this is intended to show a wall-less building. I recall one excavation in England found an Anglo-Saxon building with post holes next to it which looked like a building, but there was no sign of walls. The archaeologists interpreted it as an area for textile work, with a roof to keep things dry, but no walls to maximize the light. This may be intended to show an area like that?
By the way, I believe this image is from the Eadwine psalter, which is held in Trinity College library in Cambridge. The Utrecht psalter is black and white, but the Eadwine psalter is quite colourful.
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