Essays about: "brooches"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word brooches.

1. 1. Chronicled in metal : The biography of a trefoil brooch and the importance of object modification in Viking Age Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Arkeologi

   Author : Isac Löfgren; [2023]
   Keywords : Trefoil brooch; Vikings; Viking Age; object biography; ornamentation;

   Abstract : Trefoil brooches are one of the most abundant types of Viking Age jewellery in Scandinavia. This thesis delves into the journey of one such brooch, known as 555783, discovered in Birka, Sweden. READ MORE

3. 2. Who I Am and Who You See

   University essay from Konstfack/Ädellab

   Author : Teresa Alton Borgelin; [2021]
   Keywords : jewellery; identity; brooch; layers; categorisation; norms; skin; adoption; belonging; craft;

   Abstract : Now and then other people’s comments and/or behaviour reminds me that I look different and that my external features are connected to something beyond my Swedish identity. My black hair, dark brown eyes and my brownish skin color talk about something else. READ MORE

4. 3. The Heritage : A personal study of the brooch as a signal surface

   University essay from Konstfack/Ädellab

   Author : Eva Skärlund; [2020]
   Keywords : Jewellery; brooches; plastic; climate crisis; semiotics; visual communication; heritage; the Anthropocene;

   Abstract : This paper looks at how I as a jeweller can use my craft knowledge to raise awareness of environmental issues. In our society we are informed on a daily basis how elevated average temperatures, melting glaciers and forest fires affect and will affect our future, but also future generations’ living conditions on earth. READ MORE

5. 4. Dress brooches and identities - a comparative study of collective identities and dress brooches in early medieval urban and rural sites in South West Scania

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Historisk arkeologi

   Author : Anna Isberg; [2019]
   Keywords : Early Middle Ages; dress brooches; urnes-style brooches; urban; rural; identity; Lund; Scania; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : This thesis concerns early medieval dress brooches from urban and rural sites in South West Scania. The purpose is to investigate similarities and differences between urban and rural sites as well as between the rural places in particular. READ MORE

6. 5. A Study in Viking Age Brooches using Modern Technology : Simulating the Casting of a Baroque Bronze Brooch in Magma5 5.3.0.4

   University essay from KTH/Materialvetenskap

   Author : Alexander Eneborg; Pontus Cronqvist; [2016]
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   Abstract : There is much that is unknown concerning the creation of Viking age brooches. Recreating these brooches in the same way they would have been created in the Viking age to try to understand how they were created is a time consuming project for experimental archaeologists. READ MORE