Sandals for the king
My latest project on ancient Egyptian beadwork focuses on the research of how a pair of small beaded sandals, found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, were made 3.300 years ago. This work will include the analysis of the ancient beading craft and the description of the beading pattern. In the coming months, I will then be making reconstructions of these objects for an exciting new exhibition on ancient footwear in the Bata museum in Toronto (Canada). By making these reconstruction
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
