Ancient beadwork in the Neues Museum in Berlin
Okay, since our website www.wearableheritage.com is no longer a blog and we do wish to write something every once in a while, we think that these notes of some of our daily work might fill the gap. This is a first try-out; see if any wearable heritage lovers will be able to find it, and ‘like it’ of course. Last year’s trip to Berlin for instance. I went in spring with my dear friends Andre Veldmeijer en Erno Endenburg to the Neues Museum to study the ancient Egyptian beadwor
Beadwork & Hair at the Petrie Museum
Last week, I paid a (research) visit to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie). If you know the place, I don’t have to tell you about the enormous amount of artifacts this collection houses. It is a wonderful small museum of UCL, and the displays are fantastic as well. If ever in London, you should definitely pay it a visit. I went there to look at the hair samples and the beadwork in the collection. It’s not often that, as
