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Monday 23.8.2021 
 
Research Event

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14.00–15.00 EET

Katrin Kania Tablet-Weaving: Weaving Complex Patterns Without Paper Drafts

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15.00–16.00 EET

Mervi Pasanen It´s all about details – Finnish late iron age dress finishing and accessories

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16.00–16.45 EET

Sanna Lipkin, Ville Karjalainen & Mikko Finnilä Micro-computed tomography of archaeological textiles – Benefits and limitations

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16.45–17.15 EET

Johanna Banck-Burgess Early Textile Production: Mesolithic hunter-gatherer cultures as trailblazer 

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Tuesday 24.8.
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Welcome ceremony and lecture

 

11.00–12.00 EET

Sanna Lipkin Archaeological Textiles from Northern Finland: New Perspectives on the Past

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Early textile production
Session chair: Monika Kaczmarek 

 

12.15–13.15 EET

Weronika Skrzyniecka Textile impressions on the Trypillia culture pottery 

 

Monika Kaczmarek Neolithic Pottery as a Source for Research on Prehistoric Textile Production – Possibilities and Limitations 

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Clare Privilege Textile production “lacunae”: The case study of prehistoric Ireland 

 
Bronze Age fibres and fabric production
Session chair: Tereza Štolcová

 

14.00–15.30 EET

Susanna Harris Fabrics of the Late Bronze Age pile-dwelling settlement of Must Farm, Britain 

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Margarita Gleba Textile fibres at the Bronze Age settlement of Must Farm, UK: species identification and processing 

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Celia Elliott-Minty A braided bracelet/armband found in a Bronze Age cist on Dartmoor, UK: how might it have been made? INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK 

 

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 

 

Malgorzata Siennicka Textile tools from MBA/LBA Argos in the Argolid, Greece: clay reels, weaving, and textile techniques

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Vendel and Viking Age textiles
Session chair: Karolina Pallin

 

15.45–17.15 EET

Santa Jansone & Artis Aboltins Textiles and armour during Vendel period in Scandinavia and Baltic 

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Tracy Niepold Visible but not visualizable – challenges in analysing degraded textile remnants preserved in the so-called singer’s burial of Trossingen

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Ulla Mannering Fashioning the Viking Age

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Ida Demant Textile production and craft people in Viking Age - new analyses and results 

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Annika Larsson Silk Samite in the Viking Age female Boatgrave 36, Gamla Uppsala: a Textile Review

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Karolina Pallin Brocaded tablet-woven bands from Viking age boat graves in Valsgärde, Sweden - different techniques, similar appearance 

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Keynote lecture

 

18.00–19.00 EET

Ulla Moilanen All we need is… a detailed look into grave contexts

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Wednesday 25.8.
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Colourful past and weaving
Session chair: Sanna Lipkin

 

11.00–13.00 EET

Riina Rammo, Krista Vajanto & Mervi Pasanen Searching for mastery in dyeing – blackish blue on Estonian textile finds (11th–15th c) 

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Amica Sundström & Maria Neijman Medieval textile in seal bags versus archaeological textiles from Swedish cities 

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Kelvin Wilson A Visual Compendium of Prehistoric Fashions 

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Kelvin Wilson Fashions of Fur 

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Nina Manninen Gold, silk and treasures from the Orient – Catherine Jagiellon's wardrobe in inventories 1562–1563 INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK

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Lorena Ariis An experiment with heavy loom weights INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK

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Dolores Kearney Weaving Stories: A multidisciplinary approach to Early Medieval Irish Textiles  INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK

 
Textiles from shipwrecks and cloth reproductions
Session chair: Anna Silwerulv

 

14.30–15.30 EET

Margarita Gleba & Angela Middleton Textiles and cordage from the 17th century English shipwreck of the London 

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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 

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Jenni Sahramaa Use It to Understand It – Ancient Dress in Re-enactment

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Jaana Riikonen et al. Ravattula Dress project INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK

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Reproduction of decorative textiles
Session chair: Alexandra Makin

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15.45–17.15 EET

Tereza Štolcová, Juraj Zajonc & Ina Vanden Berghe Picking up the threads: the reconstruction of the 1,600-year old tapestry from Poprad-Matejovce based on a new evidence

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Marie Wallenberg Oseberg 18C, geometric patterned fragments. How have they been woven? Are there any close parallels to be found? 

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Krista Vajanto, Mervi Pasanen & Elina Sojonen Recreation of a Finnish Medieval wool intarsia by experimental archaeology

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Jennifer K. Matthews, Robert Bachman, Gregory T. Clark & Christopher M. McDonough Uncovering the story of a reproduction medieval cycle tapestry through interdisciplinary studies INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK

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Alexandra Makin The early medieval St Cuthbert maniple: a recreation project

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Caps, laces and looped textiles
Session chair: Sanna Lipkin

 

17.30–18.30 EET

Jane Malcolm-Davies Speed dating or slow dating: interdisciplinary analysis of knitted and other non-woven textiles 

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Nina A. Pavlova Headdresses of 15th century Moscow. Archaeological and historical evidence

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Sanna Lipkin Bobbin laces from Ostrobothnian church burials (late 17th century – early 19th century) INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK

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Anne Marie Decker But it looks like... methods for differentiating non-woven looped structures

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26.8. Thursday
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Large collections, new perspectives
Session chair: Ronja Lau

 

11.00–12.00 EET

Petra Linscheid The textile archive of H.-J. Hundt

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Ronja Lau Hallstatt Period Textiles from Slovenian Burials

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Ingrid Schierer Erfassung der Textilgeräte in den Archiven des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien in der Datenbank THANADOS

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Clothing of the priests and monks
Session chair: Helena BÅ™ezinová

 

12.15–13.15 EET

Veronika Pilna Preserved textiles from the cesspit in Plasy Monastery

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Milena Bravermanová, Helena BÅ™ezinová & Jana Bureš Víchová Textiles from the Tomb of St. Wenceslaus

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Rebeka Nagy & Réka Semsey The Robe of Saint Emeric Data related to the Prince’s cult in Pannonhalma after examining a relic

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Clothing and textile items from working contexts
Session chair: Judit Pásztókai-SzeÅ‘ke

 

14.00–15.30 EET

Judit Pásztókai-SzeÅ‘ke Dishing the dirt on the Roman textile and cloth refurbishing workshops in Pannonia

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Katrin Kania & Beatrix Nutz Industrial use of tablet-woven bands

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Beatrix Nutz Fact and Fiction – Late 15th to 16th Century Extant Miner´s Garments vs. Pictorial Sources

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Sandra Y. Comis Excavated Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Whalers’ Clothing from Spitsbergen

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Liisa Seppänen & Päivi Repo From trash to rags and men’s fashion

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Understanding fibres and taphonomy
Session chair: Jenni Suomela

 

15.45–17.15 EET

Caroline Solazzo, Cristina Scibè, Bayarsaikhan Jamsranjav & Kira Eng-Wilmot Proteomics characterization of organic metal threads in 11th–15th century textiles

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Caroline Solazzo, Elena Phipps, Maria Fusco & Petra Czerwinske Identification of Viscacha hair in Precolumbian Peruvian Textiles with Proteomics 

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Karina Grömer, S. V. Horne & Margarita Gleba Textiles burning. Understanding charred textiles from cremation graves and experimental charring

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Jenni Suomela My experiments with cross-sectioning textile fibres

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Isabella Å»ołędziowska Before the wool reaches the spindle – techniques of initial processing of wool and their effects on the textile 

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Understanding burial textiles
Session chair: Erika Ruhl

 

17.30–18.30 EET

Maikki Karisto, Heini Kirjavainen & Jaana Riikonen Fibres & Dyes, Bands & Seams - Preliminary results on Ravattula costume ca. 1200 AD INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK

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Elizabeth E Peacock, Stina Tegnhed & Emma Maltin Two Swedish Late Modern Period Foetal Burial Shrouds

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Erika Ruhl Re-made and Re-purposed: Exploring textile performance characteristics in pre-modern Finnish burials 

 
18.30 EET Good byes...

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