This blog post is a documentation adaptation of my entries for the Kingdom Arts and Science Festival 2023 persona pentathlon. The series will have 5 blog posts for each item separately. Spindle. A spindle is a tool to spin the wool to speed up the highly manual process. Usually, the unspun wool would be placedContinue reading “Persona Pentathlon – Spindle”
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Persona Pentathlon – Buckwheat
Buckwheat with mushrooms and onions. Buckwheat is one of the most popular Wheats available in the European part of Eurasia. However, the Fagopýrum (Latin name for the plant) was probably domesticated in southwest China and then was adopted by northern tribes and was carried to the western land over 3000 years ago, before Slavs settledContinue reading “Persona Pentathlon – Buckwheat”
Persona Pentathlon – Paneva skirt
This blog post is a documentation adaptation of my entries for the Kingdom Arts and Science Festival 2023 persona pentathlon. The series will have 5 blog posts for each item separately. Paneva. Paneva is a skirt worn by town citizens during the warm summer month and during work around the house. Visual anthropology analysis showsContinue reading “Persona Pentathlon – Paneva skirt”
Persona Pentathlon – Belt
This is the second post in the series about the townswoman clothes accessories. To read about the first post, please, click here. Belt. In the rich burials of pre-Mongolian Rus, the belts were repeatedly found. V.V. Hvoyko reports findings in the graves of the Middle Near-Dnieper (in Sharqi, in Belgorod) silk belts with Byzantine andContinue reading “Persona Pentathlon – Belt”
Persona Pentathlon – Tunic
This blog post is a documentation adaptation of my entries for the Kingdom Arts and Science Festival 2023 persona pentathlon. The series will have 5 blog posts for each item separately. Tunic The tunic is the main clothes of eastern Slavs that men and women wore. The difficulty in researching the pattern is that manyContinue reading “Persona Pentathlon – Tunic”
Phoenix Safe Place 