North European Textiles Until AD 1000This book is firstly an enormous catalogue of all textile finds from prehistoric, Roman and medieval contexts in Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Scandinavia. This data is used to show that the first steps towards organized textile production in northern Europe were taken more than 2,500 years ago, and that the industry that was to centre itself around the English Channel and North Sea coastal areas played an important part in the rise of the Carolingian Empire and Anglo-Saxon England. |
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Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Great Britain and Ireland | 18 |
AngloSaxon England | 26 |
Copyright | |
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10th century 2/2 plain twill Archaeological Bender Jørgensen 1986d Bezirk Birka broken twill broken twill/diamond twill Bronze Age brooch with textile cloth-types count Crowfoot culture Date diagram of type diamond twill z/s Eggers fabrics Feddersen Wierde flax fragment with textile Germania Libera half-basket weave Hallstatt Henshall Histogram showing Hundt Iron fragment Jastorf Jastorf culture largest piece Lower Saxony Matrix diagram Meaney Merovingian Merovingian Period Migration Period Museum fur National Museum Neolithic pattern pin fastener plied yarn Post-Roman Period Pre-Roman Iron Age probably remains around pin remains on back repeat repp Roman Britain Roman Period romerske samples Scandinavia Schlabow selvedge settlements showing the proportional silk Slusegaard small textile fragments spin starting border Suomen kansallimuseo Sz-plied Sz/Sz Sz/z tablet weave textile finds Textile fragment textile impression textile material textile remains threads threads/cm Tidow Valsgarde Viking Age Vindolanda Virring type warp warp-threads per cm weft Wild z-spun z/z tabby