Colours: red + yellow or blue + yellow

Length: 327 cm

Width: 1,5 cm

Material: 100% Norwegian wool

Location: 6th century Norway

The original find which I based my band on is dated around 500 A.D. The finding place is Hgebostad in the southern part of Norway. The name Snartemo i the name of the nearby farm, where was an extensive burial site discovered.

”Snartemo II” is the name of a particular grave which among many other things contained a garment decorated with a 2-coloured tablet woven trim. The original woolen band was very fine: Even though it was only approximately 0.9 cm wide, it was woven on 17 tablets. This means that threads were only 0.5 mm thick!

The material I use is finely spun, locally produced sheep wool. The supplier provided a high quality 2-ply yarn with surprisingly smooth finish which helped to bring out the unique texture of this band.