Is black leather thong authentic of the Saxon period, if so how did they make it black. serious answers!?
I am a reenactor of the saxon period and have been told that black thong is not possable for the time but i have my doubts, i need to know how its manafactor may have been possable and even better provdence for its use. As much infomation as you can would be very welcome please
To quote from the Regia Anglorum Members’ Handbook,
“Black leather or fabric of any description must be avoided. Whilst there are written references to the colour black, it was not the dense, dark colour we now call black. The black of the time seems to have been what we would now call dark brown or dark grey. The only way of producing a dense fade proof black was by multiple dippings in expensive, imported dyestuffs – it is therefore a colour reserved only for the wealthy.”
And if somebody was wealthy enough to afford black, they’d show it off – leather thonging just wouldn’t be noticeable enough, so wouldn’t be worth the effort.
The lichen Clavophora rupestris will give you a medium grey; bladderwrack, weld with iron, and weld with sorrel root will give you reasonably dark browns – repeated overdyeing with any of these could get you something that passes for black in poor lighting, but that would take a lot of effort, be only for the rich, and not be truly black.
Iris roots are rumoured to give dark grey to black shades on wool, and I’ve heard much the same thing about inkcaps. In the Highlands, oak bark, hawthorn bark, alder bark, or the roots of the dock plant (all of these mordanted with iron) are still used in traditional hedgerow dyeing to get shades approaching black.
So black thonging is possible – just not true black, not commonly, and it probably wasn’t worth the effort. I’d recommend using undyed thonging; it’s good for all social rankings of the Dark Ages, and there’s plenty of evidence for it.
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