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To an untrained eye, the artefact looks brown and dull, but it is actually something very special: embroidered wool fabric more than 1000 ye
What a fantastic find! Not just the textiles, although that in itself is astonishing, but the goods that went into the grave with the woman are marvellous.
Here's a list of the papers in Textiles and the Medieval Economy: Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th-16th Centuries (new out today):
"The missing link: The distribution revolution of the 15th century" by Stuart Jenks
"Hanseatic textile production in 15th century long distance trade" by Angela Ling Huang
"Textile production, organisation, and theoretical perspectives on trade in the Scandinavian Viking Age" by Eva Andersson Strand
"Silk trade to Scandinavia in the Viking Age" by Marianne Vedeler
"Weaving wealth: cloth and trade in Viking Age and medieval Iceland" by Michèle Hayeur Smith
"The dual crises of the late-medieval Florentine cloth industry, c. 1320–c. 1420" by John Munro
"Trade with Fustian" by Kilian Baur
"The flax and linen of medieval Novgorod" by Heidi M. Sherman
"Technology and textile production – from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages – Norwegian cases" by Ingvild Øye
"Cloth production and cloth trade in Hanseatic towns with regional and non-regional products reflected in normative and other sources" by Rudolf Holbach
"Cloth in the large cities of medieval Poland – production and trade" by Jerzy Maik
"Luxury for everyone? Embroideries on leather shoes and the consumption of silk yarn in 11th–13th century northern Europe" by Gitte Hansen
"Brides, donors, traders: imports into Anglo-Saxon England" by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
"Noble customers of cloth at the Frankfurt fairs around the year 1500" by Thomas Ertl and Michael Rothmann
"Shopping in the early modern North. Shops, shopkeepers and their customers in 16th century Malmoe and Elsinore" by Camilla Luise Dahl
Viking textiles - Vikingskipshuset by Hedensktrollkjerring
