Difficulty: Medium
Total Time: 3 hours
The original find that he based my lucet on is the "chicken" lucet, which was made out of whale bone and has an image of a bird on it with the same concentric circle designs. I also received a brass pick, which was hand forged over the kitchen hot plate for me to use to pick the threads up. We don't have an extant find for the pick, but it does make life much easier when making cords with it.
When I am making cord with it the base sits nicely in the palm of my hand and the indents you can see at the top of each prong keep the threads (wool) held on better and make it quite easy to use.
Greetings. I was wondering where the "chicken" lucet is documented from? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteFrom the book "The Vikings" put out by the British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art on page 60 (isbn 0 87099 220 1), photographic credit to Tronheim Museum. It is described as "a whalebone line-winder incised with the figure of a bird" from north Norway, however there is no indication of how big the artifact is. I originally saw this on a website somewhere, but found it in this book afterwards.
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