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Is the Migration-period Swedish textile's reinforced trim genuine embroidery or plain repair stitching?

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The surviving Migration-period Swedish garment's reinforced edges could be read either as functional seam repair or as deliberate decorative embroidery, and no scholarly consensus resolves which. 1
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A technical textile-conservation study of the stitching pattern, compared against known repair-stitch versus decorative-stitch conventions from the period. 1
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textile conservation 1
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The surviving Migration-period Swedish garment's reinforced edges could be read either as functional seam repair or as deliberate decorative embroidery, and no scholarly consensus resolves which.

What would resolve this A technical textile-conservation study of the stitching pattern, compared against known repair-stitch versus decorative-stitch conventions from the period.
Opentextile conservationEmbroidery (Wikipedia)
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Source Embroidery (Wikipedia)
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1. Embroidery (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embroidery, Origins section, Migration-period Sweden passageView the Source
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