All times are Eastern European Time EET
Monday 23.8.2021
Research Event
14.00–15.00 EET
Katrin Kania Tablet-Weaving: Weaving Complex Patterns Without Paper Drafts
15.00–16.00 EET
Mervi Pasanen It´s all about details – Finnish late iron age dress finishing and accessories
16.00–16.45 EET
Sanna Lipkin, Ville Karjalainen & Mikko Finnilä Micro-computed tomography of archaeological textiles – Benefits and limitations
16.45–17.15 EET
Johanna Banck-Burgess Early Textile Production: Mesolithic hunter-gatherer cultures as trailblazer
Tuesday 24.8.
Welcome ceremony and lecture
11.00–12.00 EET
Sanna Lipkin Archaeological Textiles from Northern Finland: New Perspectives on the Past
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
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
Margarita Gleba Textile fibres at the Bronze Age settlement of Must Farm, UK: species identification and processing
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
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
Tracy Niepold Visible but not visualizable – challenges in analysing degraded textile remnants preserved in the so-called singer’s burial of Trossingen
Ulla Mannering Fashioning the Viking Age
Ida Demant Textile production and craft people in Viking Age - new analyses and results
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
Keynote lecture
18.00–19.00 EET
Ulla Moilanen All we need is… a detailed look into grave contexts
Wednesday 25.8.
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)
Amica Sundström & Maria Neijman Medieval textile in seal bags versus archaeological textiles from Swedish cities
Kelvin Wilson A Visual Compendium of Prehistoric Fashions
Kelvin Wilson Fashions of Fur
Nina Manninen Gold, silk and treasures from the Orient – Catherine Jagiellon's wardrobe in inventories 1562–1563 INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK
Lorena Ariis An experiment with heavy loom weights INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK
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
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
Jenni Sahramaa Use It to Understand It – Ancient Dress in Re-enactment
Jaana Riikonen et al. Ravattula Dress project INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK
Reproduction of decorative textiles
Session chair: Alexandra Makin
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
Marie Wallenberg Oseberg 18C, geometric patterned fragments. How have they been woven? Are there any close parallels to be found?
Krista Vajanto, Mervi Pasanen & Elina Sojonen Recreation of a Finnish Medieval wool intarsia by experimental archaeology
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
Alexandra Makin The early medieval St Cuthbert maniple: a recreation project
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
Nina A. Pavlova Headdresses of 15th century Moscow. Archaeological and historical evidence
Sanna Lipkin Bobbin laces from Ostrobothnian church burials (late 17th century – early 19th century) INSTAGRAM/FACEBOOK
Anne Marie Decker But it looks like... methods for differentiating non-woven looped structures
26.8. Thursday
Large collections, new perspectives
Session chair: Ronja Lau
11.00–12.00 EET
Petra Linscheid The textile archive of H.-J. Hundt
Ronja Lau Hallstatt Period Textiles from Slovenian Burials
Ingrid Schierer Erfassung der Textilgeräte in den Archiven des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien in der Datenbank THANADOS
Clothing of the priests and monks
Session chair: Helena Březinová
12.15–13.15 EET
Veronika Pilna Preserved textiles from the cesspit in Plasy Monastery
Milena Bravermanová, Helena Březinová & Jana Bureš Víchová Textiles from the Tomb of St. Wenceslaus
Rebeka Nagy & Réka Semsey The Robe of Saint Emeric Data related to the Prince’s cult in Pannonhalma after examining a relic
Clothing and textile items from working contexts
Session chair: Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke
14.00–15.30 EET
Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke Dishing the dirt on the Roman textile and cloth refurbishing workshops in Pannonia
Katrin Kania & Beatrix Nutz Industrial use of tablet-woven bands
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
Liisa Seppänen & Päivi Repo From trash to rags and men’s fashion
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
Caroline Solazzo, Elena Phipps, Maria Fusco & Petra Czerwinske Identification of Viscacha hair in Precolumbian Peruvian Textiles with Proteomics
Karina Grömer, S. V. Horne & Margarita Gleba Textiles burning. Understanding charred textiles from cremation graves and experimental charring
Jenni Suomela My experiments with cross-sectioning textile fibres
Isabella Żołędziowska Before the wool reaches the spindle – techniques of initial processing of wool and their effects on the textile
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
Elizabeth E Peacock, Stina Tegnhed & Emma Maltin Two Swedish Late Modern Period Foetal Burial Shrouds
Erika Ruhl Re-made and Re-purposed: Exploring textile performance characteristics in pre-modern Finnish burials
18.30 EET Good byes...
