Northern Archaeological Textiles, Nesat VII: Textile Symposium in Edinburgh, 5th-7th May 1999

by Frances Pritchard

This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this important and stimulating area of archaeology. From the golden robes of a Roman burial, to the fashionable Viking in Denmark, through to the early modern period and more technological aspects of textile-research, these twenty-four papers (five of which are in German) provide a wealth of new information on the study of ancient textiles in northern Europe.

Table of Contents

Gold textiles from a Roman burial at Munigua (Mulva, Seville) ( Carmen Alfaro Giner )
Two Gallo-Roman graves recently found in Naintré (Vienne, France) ( Isabelle Bédat, Sophie Desrosiers, Christophe Moulherat, CarolineRelier )
Das Mädchengrab der Vorläufiger Bericht ( Frauke Kadereit )
Frühmittelalterliche Textilien aus der Nordostschweiz ( Antoinette Rast-Eicher )
Textile pseudomorphs from a Merovingian burial ground at Harmignies, Belgium ( Lisa Vanhaeke and Chris Verhecken-Lammens )
Denmark, Dress and fashion in Denmark's Viking Age ( Anne Hedeager Krag )
Brocaded tablet-woven bands - same appearance, different weaving technique, Hørning, Hvilehøj and Mammen ( Lise Ræder Knudsen )
Textile production at household needs or organised workshops? ( Eva Andersson )
Who produced the textiles? Changing gender roles in late Saxon textile production - the archaeological and documentary evidence ( Philippa A Henry )
Handwerk oder Industrie? Erfahrungen bei der Herstellung eines hochmittelalterlichen Wollgewebes auf dem Gewichtswebstuhl ( Eva-Maria Pfarr )
Textiles of an introduction to an interdisciplinary research project ( Lise Bender Jørgensen )
What makes a Viking sail? ( Bill Cooke and Carol Christiansen )
Textiles for transport ( Susan Möller-Wiering )
The Greenlandic vaðmál ( Else Østergård )
Stand und Notwendigkeit der Forschungen über die mittelalterliche Wollweberei auf dem südlichen Ostseegebiet ( Jerzy Maik )
The collection of archaeological textiles at Prague Castle ( Milena Bravermanová )
Textilfunde aus dem dreizehnten bis siebzehnten Neue Funde - Neue Erkenntnisse? ( Klaus Tidow )
Sixteenth-century textiles from two sites in Groningen, The Netherlands ( Hanna Zimmerman )
'The apparel oft proclaims the man' - late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century textiles from Bridge Street Upper, Dublin ( Elizabeth Wincott Heckett )
Women's robes excavated from the burial crypt in The Holy Mary's Church, Torun, Poland ( Malgorzata Grupa )
The influence of west European fashion on the clothing of Torun's townsfolk ( Anna Drazkowska )
The human development of different fleece-types in sheep and its association with the development of textile crafts ( Michael L Ryder )
A preliminary classification of shapes of loomweights ( Karen-Hanne Stærmose Nielsen )
Remarks concerning some details of early spinning wheels ( Gertrud Grenander Nyberg )

138 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2005