Knarr Traders

Great News! A Simplified Guide to Historical Tablet Weaving is back in stock on our website!

Visit www.knarrtraders.com to secure your copy.

As a thank you for your patience while we've sorted out some logistics issues, shipping within Australia is now a $5 flat fee.

The 1936 discovery of what has become known as the Skjoldehamn find provided one of the most complete outfits from the Viking Age. Named after the Skjoldehamn farm in Andøya, northern Norway, the preserved textiles have gone on to inform nearly a century of study into the field. The anaerobic conditions of the bog led to near immaculate preservation of the outfit and the body - indeed, when first discovered, it was assumed that the body had been buried in the 18th Century!

The preserved outfit consisted of a hood, an outer woollen jacket, an inner woollen tunic, trousers, leg wraps, socks cut from wool cloth, leather shoes, ankle bands, and this item, a braided belt.

Take this opportunity to own a relatively rarely reproduced aspect of this outfit with this Skjoldehamn belt, which has been hand braided in naturally dyed wool. The wool was handspun from Icelandic fleece. It makes a handsome and appropriate accompaniment to a Skjoldehamn hood, a part of a larger Skjoldehamn impression, or looks quite striking when worn by itself.

This braided belt is 190cm (6' 3") in length and 1.3 cm (1/2") wide. It is hand braided with 100% plant dyed* wool and would make an excellent cloth belt for your Late Viking Age and Early Medieval re-enactment. This design features colours produced cochineal (red), weld (yellow), and indigo (blue).

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This beautiful and intricately woven band takes influence from Latgalian folk weaving and shows off some of the most striking and stunning motifs in that field. It's plant dyed splendor contains areas of brocade where a supplementary weft changes the colour of the patterns shown, adding an additional layer of depth to the band.

If your goal is to turn heads, this absolute work of woven art would be a spectacular addition to your historical costume.

This band is 208 cm (6' 10“) in length and 2.2 cm (7/8") wide. It is handwoven with 100% natural dyed wool and would make an excellent cloth belt or intricate trim to your mantle. This design features colours produced with natural dye; blue (indigo), yellow (weld), green (indigo overdyed with weld) and red (cochineal extract).

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We are pleased to announce that we are in the process of giving our webstore a long overdue overhaul, with heaps of new stock including dozens of woven bands and stacks of dyed yarn to be added over the next few weeks. Every few days we will highlight something new here until our shop is completely restocked.

To celebrate being back up and running, we are offering $5 flat rate shipping within Australia for the months of February and March for purchases through our webstore. No discount code required, the discounted shipping rate will apply automatically at checkout.

We are so excited to show you what we’ve been working on!

Bjorn and Dagny
Knarr Traders
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Market season is ramping up again for Knarr Traders! ❄️

As things have slowed down over Winter, we have kept busy working on some beautiful new wares for our market stall and special orders! We are excited to show you all over the next few weeks! ⛄️❄️

Pictured is a silk handfasting ribbon woven with silk brocade and ornate tassels for a very special couple 💙

Good news! Knarr Traders will be at Cold War this year!

We will be set up on the Saturday afternoon, in the Hall.

We will be bringing a selection of our tablet weaving, and copies of our books. If there is anything else that you're after, please let us know in advance and we will make sure to bring it along.

It's our first time making it to this event, and we are very excited to see you all!

Hello Sunshine! 🧡🌞✨

A little update as we prepare for our market stall at Rowany Festival this year! 😃✨Knarr Traders will be trading on Saturday Morning at the market tables with all of your favourite Early Medieval and Viking Age soft wares, accessories and miscellanies! ❤️🎉✨

We will have a huuuge range of our 100% plant dyed wool, alongside brand new supplies of mordants, modifiers and natural dyes! ❤️💙💚💛 New, never seen before stock of tablet woven belts, ribbons and tapes - all historically referenced and hand woven with our plant dyed yarns!🌿🧶 We will have limited copies of our popular books “A Simplified Guide to Historical Tablet Weaving” 📕and “The Illuminated Helper”📖 for sale also! Lots of new and exciting hand crafted treasures to share with you all 🎉✨

We’re excited to see you there! 😊✨

Stay safe and all the best,
Dagny and Bjorn

Off the clothes horse and into the sunlight before it starts to rain again! 💛✨

Yellows, golds and greens dyed with weld, indigo, dyer’s chamomile and brown onion skins! Delightful☀️💚💛

Stay safe 💛
Be kind 💚

We our spending our summer days restocking our store with our beautiful plant dyed wool! 💚🌿✨

This brilliant green is a result of scouring, rinsing, mordanting with alum, seasoning, dyeing with a strong weld bath, rinsing, a few dips into a weak indigo bath, rinsing, pH neutralising, scouring, and drying 💚🌿 Worth every second for that beautiful colour! ✨

These lovely hanks and many more new colours will be listed in our online store (Link in Bio ✨) soon! 💚🌿

Knarr Traders added a View Shop button to their Page.

News for the New Year! ❤️✨

We hope you enjoyed your End of Year Celebrations as much as we did! ❤️🎉
It was lovely to see some of you at the Rowany Yule event at the end of last year - we had a lovely time! 🥳❤️

We’ll be updating the shop with a few special items over the next week 🎉🎉- Bjorn has been weaving up a storm and we’re so excited to share them with you! Check them out in real time as we update our online shop at knarrtraders.com (Link in Bio) 😊✨

Some book news 📕✨
After the mad Christmas rush, we are currently out of physical stock in our online shop 🙃 We are awaiting a new shipment of books from the printers, however they have been delayed again. If you are wanting to buy a copy of A Simplified Guide to Historical Tablet Weaving, they are still available print on demand from Blurb 📕✨

We wish you all a late Happy 2022 Everyone! Be safe, look after you and yours and hopefully we’ll see you in person at an event in the future! 🥳✨

Bjorn and Dagny
Knarr Traders ⛵️

Knarr Traders are pleased to announce that we will be trading at the Rowany Yule event this weekend!

We will be bringing a selection of your favourite goods, including:

*Books!
*Tablet weaving!
*Plant dyed yarn!
*Dye-your-own kits!
*A selection of our other stock.

If there's anything specific that you've been looking for and would like for us to bring along, or if there's anything that you would like us to set aside for you, please let us know!

We hope to see you there!

It's (almost) that time! From 10am, the Spring War Markets will be open for business!

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We've assembled some of our favourite Spring War regular merchants, and a few new ones, for what should prove to be a really fun browsing experience.

With a range of merchants from around Australia, we've endeavoured to have something for everybody!

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Click 'join' now and be automatically approved when the group opens at 10.

Come and support your local merchants. Remember, you don't need to buy anything to show your support!

Share the link around!

The markets will be open from 10am AEDT. Don't forget that the clocks here moved last night because of Daylight Savings Time, so if you're attending from elsewhere in the world, please adjust your plans accordingly!

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Mini cakes for days!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙✨

A little re-stock of our beautiful plant dyed wool, lovingly prepared and hand dyed by Dagny, for our virtual market stall in October! ❤️🧡💛💚💙✨

We will be posting more information about our stall, like how to find it/how to shop, in the next few days 🌞✨ We are very excited to be trading alongside some awesome Aussie merchants at Spring War this year! 💛💛🎉

We have some exciting news!! 🎉✨Knarr Traders will be participating in the Virtual Spring War Market Day on Sunday the 3rd of October!! 🎉🎉

It’s been so, so, so, so long since we’ve had the opportunity to trade at an event 😭 😩We miss the hustle and bustle! We miss people! We miss the market stall excitement! So, we are thrilled to support an online SCA market event like this one!! 🚩🚩

More info to come!! Can’t wait to see you there 💛✨

Dagny from Knarr Traders

Restocking our plant dyed yarn today! 🧶✨

I think we all need some colour in our news feeds today. Wishing you all a safe and healthy day in lockdown ~ find some time in the sun today if you can 🌼 🌞✨

Teensie, tiny, itty, bitty, silk bands! 😙😙✨

We've added three new, very special bands to the the shop today! ✨ They are all based on historical patterns from the Scandinavian Viking Age and Early Medieval Europe - woven with INCREDIBLY fine plant dyed, silk sewing thread! 🧵✨ The woven widths measure to 0.5 and 0.4cm! 😙

Perfect lengths for headbands, hair tape and fine trim for your fanciest garb! Check out our full range in store at knarrtraders.com ⛵️✨