Welcome to the fifth installment of ‘Early Medieval (mostly) Textiles’. This month Christina Petty discusses weaving 2/1 (unbalanced) twill weaves on warp-weighted looms: the evidence, the problems and her experimental archaeological approach to the weaving process. Chris’s passion for textiles started at the age eight. Today she is primarily a weaver, spinner and dyer, but... Continue Reading →

Welcome to our fourth instalment of ‘Early Medieval (mostly) Textiles’. This month we are travelling through the Mediterranean, North Africa and Asia during Late Antiquity and the early medieval period, where we discover how the invention of steel needles changed weaving processes and the production of embroidery. Karen Carr was an Associate Professor of History... Continue Reading →

Welcome to the third post in the Early Medieval (mostly) Textiles Blog series. This time Dr Katrin Kania, Dr Margit Hofmann and I discuss colours and dyeing silk threads for the Cuthbert Maniple Recreation Project. (Unless otherwise stated, all image copyrights are the authors) Katrin studied Archaeology of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time... Continue Reading →

If you missed Ronja and me talking about archaeological textiles in EXARC’s 4th FinallyFriday, ‘Sew much to do, Sew little time’, last week, you can catch up with it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjgtu-Xfy1g

Welcome to our second instalment of Early Medieval (mostly) Textiles. This month we are taking our first steps outside the early medieval period, further back in time to the Hallstatt period (800-400 BC). Enjoy! Ronja Lau (MA): Working with mineralised textiles: Textile analysis of Hallstatt period burials from Magdalenska Gora, Brezje and Podzemlj Today I... Continue Reading →

This update is about hands https://www.instagram.com/p/CBGcEaFn_2Y/?igshid=1v0nm3kc8vm5p

Dave Musgrove has included a section about my research in his latest History Extra blog: https://www.historyextra.com/period/viking/viking-military-mindgames-early-medieval-wayfinding-anglo-saxon-embroidery/

The next update of the Cuthbert Maniple Recreation Project is up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CAlDToPnZSq/?igshid=nojvws0o9bvj This time it’s the head

A blog piece I’ve written about the story behind my book, The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: the sacred and secular power of embroidery, has just been published on the Oxbow Books blogspot. Check it out via the link below. https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/blog/2020/05/11/lost-art-anglo-saxon-world/