Danish Viking Persona Pentathlon

I entered the Persona Pentathlon at Atlantia’s Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival in 2014.

I stand wearing an unbleached linen long-sleeve underdress and a blue wool apron dress

Danish Smokkr

I stand wearing an unbleached linen under dress

Danish Serk

two hanks of thin white yarn on a black background

Icelandic Wool Yarn

5 piles of wool locks dyed red-orange, blue, and purple/red/brown, I don't know what to call it

Dyed Icelandic Wool

Madder, indigo, and madder+indigo dyed wool hanging on a laundry rack to dry

Drying dyed wool

a tuft of red wool hovers over an indigo dyebath

Red plus blue…

tongs with dark purple wool being removed from a white bucket

…makes…purple?

Wool being removed from the indigo. Top is dark blue, bottom is light green

Indigo oxidization

surface of indigo dyebath with green-tinged wool visible below the surface

Indigo looks green

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