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The preserved clothing, including a wool cape, a scarf, and a skirt. All look muddy-brown after millenia in a bog. Quoting from the museum: "A thorough examination of the woman’s body has shown that her innermost item of clothing was a garment made of plant fibres, maybe nettle or linen. Only af few traces of this garment are left on the woman’s skin, as the major part of the textile has decomposed during the period in the bog. The skirt and scarf display an alternating check pattern of light and dark wool. The long period in the water of the bog has turned the clothes brown. Colour analysis has shown that originally the skirt was blue and the scarf was a red colour. "

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The preserved clothing, including a wool cape, a scarf, and a skirt. All look muddy-brown after millenia in a bog. Quoting from the museum: "A thorough examination of the woman’s body has shown that her innermost item of clothing was a garment made of plant fibres, maybe nettle or linen. Only af few traces of this garment are left on the woman’s skin, as the major part of the textile has decomposed during the period in the bog. The skirt and scarf display an alternating check pattern of light and dark wool. The long period in the water of the bog has turned the clothes brown. Colour analysis has shown that originally the skirt was blue and the scarf was a red colour. "
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elilla&, rōnin schlampe (elilla@transmom.love)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 18:05:51 JST elilla&, rōnin schlampe

I guess part of the stereotype that ancient peoples had brown clothes must be from the fact that even when the clothes get preserved, which is very rare and biased towards certain materials more than others, the dyes of course won't. here's a 2000-year-old outfit found in the peat in Huldremose, in today's Denmark; a reconstruction from the Nationalmuseet of what it would have looked like when the woman wore it (https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-early-iron-age/the-woman-from-huldremose/the-huldremose-womans-clothes/); and a recreation with period materials by youtuber Sally Pointer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnAXYrcKVEE )

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