SYMPOSIUM IS POSTPONED
NEW DAYS: 23–28 August 2021
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This is the old program plan that will be updated as soon as all presenters have confirmed their presentations and posters.
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Research Event, Monday 18.5.2020
Research Event Presentations
Ruth Gilbert & Susanna Harris: Possible methods of flax yarn production
Katrin Kania: Tablet-Weaving: Weaving Complex Patterns Without Paper Drafts
Maikki Karisto: Craft and research presentation of an archaeological tablet-woven band and band in open-end braiding in 2/2 twill from the excavations in 2016 in Ravattula Ristimäki in Finland
Barbara Klessig: Advancing the Warp: Revisiting the Coppergate Textile 1336 Through an Experimental Approach
Sanna Lipkin & Mikko Finnilä: Micro-computed tomography of archaeological textiles – Benefits and limitations
Alexandra Makin: A recreation of the early medieval St Cuthbert maniple
Ulla Mannering, Eva Andersson Strand, Charlotte Rimstad & Ida Demant: Fashioning the Viking Age – the tools, textiles and costumes
Mervi Pasanen: It´s all about details – Finnish late iron age dress finishing and accessories
Jana Ratas: Spiral tube decorations on ancient clothing in Estonia and neighbouring countries on the Eastern coast of Baltic Sea
Emeline Retournard, Elsa Desplanques & Isaline Saunier: MOIRES: an association for the research on textiles in France
Ines Roth: Neolithische Textilgewebekantenherstellung
Sue Salminen: Ravattula Dress project
Jane M. Yarbrough: Using Non-Wool Fibers in Nalbinding
Research Event Posters
Anne Marie Decker: But it looks like... methods for differentiating non-woven looped structures
Maikki Karisto, Heini Kirjavainen & Jaana Riikonen: Fibres & Dyes, Bands & Seams - Preliminary results on Ravattula costume ca. 1200 AD
Barbara Klessig: Advancing the Warp: Re-visiting the Coppergate 1336 Textile
Maria Mader: What could it be? The practical test: allocating a function to a textile find
Jenni Sahramaa: Use It to Understand It - Ancient Dress in Re-enactment
Tuesday 19.5.2020
Paper Presentations
Textile life-cycles, textile consumption, Fennoscandinavian perspectives
Erika Ruhl: Re-made and Re-purposed: Exploring textile performance characteristics in pre-modern Finnish burials
Charlotte Rimstad: 17th Century Textiles from a Copenhagen Moat Fill
Anna Silwerulv, Cecilia Aneer & Fred Hocker: Textile and leather finds from the Swedish warship Vasa. A research project on common people’s clothing from the early seventeenth century
Margarita Gleba & Angela Middleton: Textiles and cordage from the 17th century English shipwreck of the London
Tuija Kirkinen: Microfibers evidence the use of skin garments in the 11th century inhumation burial 56 in Luistari cemetery, southwestern Finland
New research methods
Elsa Desplanques: European textile wrappings during the first millenium BC : proposition of study, preservation and restitution
Caroline Solazzo, Cristina Scibè & Kira Eng-Wilmot: Proteomics characterization of organic metal threads in 11th-15th century textiles
Jane Malcolm-Davies: Speed dating or slow dating: interdisciplinary analysis of knitted and other non-woven textiles
Fashioning the Viking Age
Ulla Mannering: Fashioning the Viking Age
Ida Demant & Eva Andersson Strand: Textile production and craft people in Viking Age - new analyses and results
Irene Skals: Wool for the modern Viking’s outfit. Comparing wool from primitive sheep breeds to Viking Age textiles
Eva Andersson Strand: Fabrics for furnishing in Viking and Early Medieval Ages
Boat burials
Annika Larsson: Silk Samite in the Viking Age female Boatgrave 36, Gamla Uppsala: a Textile Review
Karolina Pallin: Brocaded tablet-woven bands from Viking age boat graves in Valsgärde, Sweden - different techniques, similar appearance
Welcome speech
Sanna Lipkin: Archaeological textiles from northern Finland
Keynote
Georg Haggren (University of Helsinki)
Wednesday 20.5.2020
Paper Presentations
Early evidence for textile production
Johanna Banck-Burgess: Early Textile Production: Mesolithic hunter-gatherer cultures as trailblazer
Anja Probst-Böhm & Sebastian Böhm: Neolithic Textiles – Raw material and manufacturing technique – Complexity and knowledge
Clare Privilege: Textile production “lacunae”: The case study of prehistoric Ireland
Fibres and fabric production
Susanna Harris: Fabrics of the Late Bronze Age pile-dwelling settlement of Must Farm, Britain
Margarita Gleba: Textile fibres at the Bronze Age settlement of Must Farm, UK: species identification and processing
Linda Hurcombe: Nettles 6 ways: the materiality of nettles as a fibre source
Jenni Suomela: My experiments with cross-sectioning textile fibres
Dyes
Ina Vanden Berghe: In search for the mysterious red: state of the art and new insights in North European red dyes/dyeing techniques
Annemette Bruselius Scharff, Dorte V. P. Sommer & Jane Richter: New investigations of the red and brown yarns from the Danish Iron age textiles - Lønne Hede
Riina Rammo & Krista Vajanto: Searching for mastery in dyeing – blackish blue on Estonian textile finds (11th–15th c)
Amica Sundström & Maria Neijman: Medieval textile in seal bags versus archaeological textiles from Swedish cities
Experimental research
Krista Vajanto, Mervi Pasanen & Elina Sojonen: Recreation of a Finnish Medieval wool intarsia by experimental archaeology
Marie Wallenberg: Oseberg 18C, geometric patterned fragments. How have they been woven? Are there any close parallels to be found?
Chrystel Brandenburgh: The Silk Stocking-Project, using citizen science as a means to learn about 17th century knitting practices
Karina Grömer, S. V. Horne & Margarita Gleba: Textiles burning. Understanding charred textiles from cremation graves and experimental charring
Extraordinary preserving conditions
Emeline Retournard: Modern textiles, new finds: Some modern carbonised textiles from Chartres (Eure-et-Loir, France). Preliminary study
Tracy Niepold: Visible but not visualizable – challenges in analysing degraded textile remnants preserved in the so-called singer’s burial of Trossingen
Thursday 21.5.2020
Paper Presentations
Large collections, new perspectives
Ronja Lau: Hallstatt Period Textiles from Slovenian Burials
Ina Schneebauer-Meißner & Brigitte Haas-Gebhard: Early medieval textile remains from male graves of the linear cemetery in Petting (Bavaria/Germany)
Friederike Leibe: Investigation and conservation of a block-lifted archiepiscopal grave from the Magdeburg Cathedral
Milena Bravermanová, Helena Březinová & Jana Bureš Víchová: Textiles from the Tomb of St. Wenceslaus
Accessories
Nina A. Pavlova: Headdresses of 15th century Moscow. Archaeological and historical evidence
Juraj Zajonc: An overview of archaeological finds of bobbin lace in Slovakia after 1997
Katrin Kania & Beatrix Nutz: Industrial use of tablet-woven bands
Local textile production and workshops and workers' clothing
Frances Pritchard: A Romano-British pile rug excavated in London
Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke: Dishing the dirt on the Roman textile and cloth refurbishing workshops in Pannonia
Antoinette Rast-Eicher: Medieval textiles and looms: Two new weaver’s workshops in Winterthur and Elgg (Canton of Zürich, Switzerland)
Beatrix Nutz: Fact and Fiction – Late 15th to 16th Century Extant Miner´s Garments vs. Pictorial Sources
Sandra Y. Comis: Excavated Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Whalers’ Clothing from Spitsbergen
Veronika Pilna: Preserved textiles from the cesspit in Plasy Monastery
Liisa Seppänen & Päivi Repo: From trash to rags and men’s fashion
Poster Session, Thursday 21.5.2020, during coffee breaks (10.00–10.45, 14.15–15.15)
Agata Ulanowska: Ariadne’s Thread Reconsidered: The Evidence for Yarns and Cordage in the Aegean Bronze Age from the Impressions on Undersides of Clay Sealings
Anne Kwaspen: The rearrangement of warp between the ground weave and tapestry ornaments of Late Antique Egyptian linen weaves
Caroline Solazzo, Elena Phipps, Maria Fusco & Petra Czerwinske: Identification of Viscacha hair in Precolumbian Peruvian Textiles with Proteomics
Celia Elliott-Minty: A braided bracelet/armband found in a Bronze Age cist on Dartmoor, UK: how might it have been made?
Clare Privilege: Spatial analysis of the archaeological evidence for textile production in prehistoric Ireland
Dolores Kearney: Weaving Stories: A multidisciplinary approach to Early Medieval Irish Textiles.
Gerusa de Alkmim Radicchi: Dyeing studies of archaeological costumes of whale and seals hunters in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica), 19th century
Isabella Żołędziowska: Before the wool reaches the spindle – techniques of initial processing of wool and their effects on the textile
Jennifer K. Matthews, Robert Bachman, Gregory T. Clark & Christopher M. McDonough: Uncovering the story of a reproduction medieval cycle tapestry through interdisciplinary studies
Johanna Banck-Burgess, Sebastian Böhm, Anja Probst-Böhm, Ingrid Stelzner, Sebastian Million & Lisa-Marie Rösch: THEFBO- A Group Project about wetland textile from Pile Dwelling Settlements
Kelvin Wilson: A Visual Compendium of Prehistoric Fashions
Kelvin Wilson: Fashions of Fur
Mary W. Ballard, Elizabeth Simpson, Brendan Burke & G. Asher Newsome: Dyes in Ancient Phrygia: Extraordinary Evidence, Research, and Speculations
Miroslava Pechočiaková & Blanka Tomková: Possibility of differentiation of flax and hemp fibers
Monika Kaczmarek: Neolithic pottery as a source into the research about textile production - potential and limitation
Nina Manninen: Gold, silk and treasures from the Orient – Catherine Jagiellon's wardrobe in inventories 1562-1563
Rebeka Nagy & Réka Semsey: The Robe of Saint Emeric Data related to the Prince’s cult in Pannonhalma after examining a relic
Sanna Lipkin: Bobbin laces from Ostrobothnian church burials (late 17th century – early 19th century)
Susanne Bretzel-Scheel: 40 years forgotten in the archives – The restoration and reconstruction of a priest's robe made of wool from the early 18th century
Tereza Štolcová: Picking up the threads: the latest news on the 1,600-year old tapestry from Poprad-Matejovce, Slovakia
Vanda Jakabová: The Textile Finds from the Prince Tomb II found at the site Žuráň near Brno-Podolí, Czech Republic. Interpretation and Reconstruction of the Unique Fabric from the Migration Period