The medieval Hamlet-version The Northman is an absolutely riveting film, and I’m usually not crazy about gory violent movies. Fantastic production values as well as a fascinating story.
Text exchange with a fellow textile-enthusiast friend after the movie:
Me: Still thinking about it, that was SUCH a good movie. TW lotta gorily murdered horses though, also people.
However, WARP WEIGHTED VERTICAL LOOM WITH PARTIALLY COMPLETED BROCADE ON IT IN BEDROOM LIKE NORMAL that bedroom intruder can hide behind, the only part I’m not sure about bc I think the weaver would glance at her brocade whenever she enters the room and would notice his feet behind there
She: PLEASE tell me no one stabbed anyone through it. I don’t care about murder, IS THE BROCADE OK???
Me: Yes thank goodness, not even any blood splashes.
The fineweave white shawls that the chieftains wear while acting as sacrificial priests do get pretty messed up, though. So do you only wear these things once for sacrificing which even for major clan ritual stuff seems pretty wasteful and extravagant, or are your laundry thralls just really good at getting sacrifice bloodstains out of wool? […]
They do have specialist laundry thralls tho, like when the itinerant thrall peddler comes by with a chainful of inventory they purchase one specifically for the laundry