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The Vikings were expert weavers who produced all of their own clothing. Children assisted women as they spun the wool into yarn and added color using plant-based natural dyes.

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Women wore a long garment with a pinafore over it, while males wore tunics and pants. Belts and brooches were used to secure their clothing.

Men wore different kinds of clothes than women did, and there is a difference between the two. Their social standing and financial status also had an impact on their clothing. Men wore different kinds of clothes than women did, and there is a difference between the two.

The Viking Age was characterized by a social hierarchy. Higher status individuals, often those with more silver coins, had access to the more exquisite and premium clothing.

Although it is claimed to have had a role, Vikings were too preoccupied with dress. First and foremost, one would dress to demonstrate their position in the community. The quality of the clothing and how one is dressed may increase with one's social rank. Second, certain Vikings dressed in a way that appealed to the other sex.

                                 The main material Vikings used for clothes

Wool and flax were the two main materials used to make clothes, with other plant and animal fibers like hemp playing a smaller part. Wool's resilience and warmth even when wet made it the perfect cloth for the climate in Scandinavia. By the Viking Age, the majority of sheep were white, making white the color of most wool.

Another appropriate response to their environment was the layering of garments that the Norse frequently wore. Given how much more pleasant linen is on the skin than wool, it was undoubtedly the favored fabric for underwear. Linen is made from flax. Only the rich could buy silk, a costly imported luxury. Cloaks and trimmings frequently featured fur.

Shoes and boots were knotted around the ankle and fashioned of goatskin or calfskin. When the weather called for it, both men and women donned hats and gloves made of wool or leather. When they wished to pull their hair back, both sexes used a silk or linen band.

                                                   Viking men clothes

The Vikings dressed in accordance with their sex, age, and social standing, just like men and women do now.

A shirt, pants or breeches, and a tunic worn over the shirt were the standard items of apparel for males. Shirts might be fitted freely or firmly. Men wore a variety of lengths of pants, and when they did, they typically covered the remainder of their legs with woolen hose. (While to us it may seem feminine, in those days it was thought to be completely manly.) These belts featured bronze or silver buckles to keep the pants in place. Knives and little bags for holding various items were frequently fastened to the belt.

Men wore thick cloaks over their clothes to add extra warmth in chilly weather. The right hand was free to hold tools or weapons since these cloaks were secured on the right shoulder with knots or an incredibly hefty pin.

                                               Viking women clothes

The classic Viking clothing for women had straps and was worn with a smock or undergarment underneath.

The strap dress was a form-fitting garment that was stitched together and composed of rough cloth. It was either left open or the sides were stitched together. The dress might also have gussets stitched into it to give it form. A strap on each shoulder held up the strap dress, which fit over the chest. A shell-shaped brooch served as the front closure for the strap. Frequently, there was a string of beads between the two brooches.

The woman wore an undergarment or smock below her strap dress. According to research, Swedish Viking women wore pleated underwear whereas Danish Viking women favored plain ones. As a result, underwear included a fashion component.

The women of the era covered her shoulders with a cloak that was secured with a little trilobite or spherical brooch. Fur bands and woven borders might be used to adorn the garment and cloak. Woman wore a belt around her waist and little leather bags for holding jewelry, strike-a-lights, and other small stuff. A bent piece of iron used to create sparks was called a strike-a-light. The Viking woman's feet were covered in leather footwear.

                           Viking procedure to make their clothes

Clothing production required a great deal of effort and expertise, as it did in most other traditional, pre-industrial civilizations, and it was the responsibility of women as part of their home duties.

Shearing sheep was the initial stage in the production of woolen clothing. Traditionally, this was accomplished by hand-tearing the wool off the animal (believe it or not, this is actually a painless process for the sheep – you can see a video of it being done here). The use of scissors wasn't a common habit. The wool was then washed, sorted, and combed to give it the shape of the long strands that give yarn its distinctive texture.

The yarn was then positioned on a distaff, a wooden staff held in the left hand, and spun with a spindle until it was formed into a spool of yarn. Finally, it was woven into clothing, typically on a vertical loom with weights to maintain the fabric's straightness as it was produced. After the fabric had been weaved, the garment was colored using hues produced by local flora. This was all done by hand. For other types of fiber, the procedure was somewhat different, but it still required what, to us, seems like an absurd amount of time and effort only to manufacture, say, a shirt or a pair of pants.

It makes sense that households with the financial means purchased professionally made cloth rather than going to the hassle of making it themselves.

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