Viking crafts

Vikings were brilliant craftsmen, architect and builders. They could fashion or assimilate tools from near or far.

Womenfoke with the help of their slaves wove the cloths, brads sails and artifacts for their families. Animals were skinned, and the leather chewed to soften it for cloths, boots and utensils.

In any spare time there was spinning and weaving to do. It was sails woven from wool that made the Viking expansion possible. But it took the wool from 40,000 sheep to make just one sail.

So cloths, sails and utensils were not churned out as in factories. It took time, patience, knowledge and skill to food and cloth the Vikings and to expand their domain.