I wonder if that shirt was the one my great grandfather Olav used to go on and on about?
The archery equipment is certainly of interest to the historians, but this shirt really packs a fantastic punch. Garments were rarely preserved in any great quantity, and even more rarely are they whole garments like this one. When you figure the number of hours of labor and effort went into collecting the wool, cleaning, carding, spinning, weaving, and then sewing the garment you will start to understand why few were preserved. Fabric items were so valuable they were used, patched, used, patched again and again until there was nothing left but patch material for the next item of clothing. Neat stuff.
