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

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 Fallward: 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, Europe: 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 Birka: 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 seafaring: 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 Jahrhundert: 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)