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Books by Lise Bender Jørgensen

Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leavin... more Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes, to the design and effects deployed in finished objects. It explores how creativity is closely related to changes in material culture, how it directs responses to the new and unfamiliar, and how it has resulted in changes to familiar things and practices. Written by an international team of scholars, the case studies in this volume consider wider issues and provide detailed insights into creative solutions found in specific objects.

Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leavin... more Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes , to the design and eff ects deployed in fi nished objects. It explores how creativity is closely related to changes in material culture, how it directs responses to the new and unfamiliar, and how it has resulted in changes to familiar things and practices. Written by an international team of scholars, the case studies in this volume consider wider issues and provide detailed insights into creative solutions found in specifi c objects.

Close Document Image Close Document Printer Image Print This Document! Conservation Information N... more Close Document Image Close Document Printer Image Print This Document! Conservation Information Network (BCIN). Author: Jorgensen, Lise Bender Title of Source: North European textiles until AD 1000 Publisher/Distributor ...

Esbjerg: Sydjysk Universitetsforlag, Jan 1, 1990

Subject Keywords French: Textile; Archéologie; Fouille; Objet de fouille; Technique; Laine; Soie;... more Subject Keywords French: Textile; Archéologie; Fouille; Objet de fouille; Technique; Laine; Soie; Produits; Typologie; Tissage; Filature; Outil; Outillage; Tapisserie; Fabrication; Tombe; Cimetière; Fibre; Analyse; Costume; Histoire; Conservation; Dessèchement; ...

... Author: Ingstad, Anne Stine Editor: Jorgensen, Lise Bender; Magnus, Bente; Munksgaard, Elisab... more ... Author: Ingstad, Anne Stine Editor: Jorgensen, Lise Bender; Magnus, Bente; Munksgaard, Elisabeth Title Article/Chapter: "Textiles from ... Norway Meeting Date: 19840000 Subject Keywords English: textiles;fiber;weave;spin;burial;provenance;Oseberg;trade; Gokstad; Kaupang ...

The Archaerology of Svendborg vol. No. 4, 1986

Papers by Lise Bender Jørgensen

den Direktoren und den Mitarbeitern der von mir besuchten Museen für die Erlaubnis, das Textil ma... more den Direktoren und den Mitarbeitern der von mir besuchten Museen für die Erlaubnis, das Textil material untersuchen zu dürfen, und für die praktische Hilfe, die mir während dieser Besuche zuteil wurde. Mein besonderer Dank gilt Elisabeth Crowfoot, Geldeston, England, die mir gioßzügig gestattet hat, in einer folgenden Arbeit eine Tabelle über mehr als 1000 angelsäch sische Gräber mit Textilresten zu veröffentlichen. Ihr äußerst umfangreiches Material macht einen gewichtigen Teil der angelsächsischen Textilien aus, die in dieser Arbeit behandelt wer den.

The Eastern Desert of Egypt during the Greco-Roman Period: Archaeological Reports, 2018

Jacquard weaving provides the opportunity to design complex pictorial and other patterning effect... more Jacquard weaving provides the opportunity to design complex pictorial and other patterning effects From the combination of warp and weft colors and /weaves. In the traditional fabric design process, the resultant visual perception of the design, using different colored yarns, can be attained only through the production of actual physical fabric sample, and this is every time consuming process. No truly accurate digital color methodology is yet available to assist designers in the initial development of product samples. Currently, there is very poor correlation between the color that is shown on the screen and the actual weave structure. On The following research we back to the nature as a main source of colors by using digital photos of several nature sources such as water, grass, clouds, sunrise, and sunset.....ECT. And by analyzing colors for this natural sources by the computer processes to implement color data base to be reference for the designer helping him to select warp and weft colors also the mix between warp and weft from several color verities and use the correct weaves to rich this color. Experimental work: The researchers select some patterns from nature sources to be an example for the application directed to jacquard upholstery fabrics.

Creativity in the Bronze Age

Bronze Age weavers used a range of diff erent fi bres: fl ax, nettle, hemp, and a variety of bast... more Bronze Age weavers used a range of diff erent fi bres: fl ax, nettle, hemp, and a variety of basts that had been used for millennia (RastEicher 2005 ). Sheep’s wool, however, was a novelty and the introduction of wool as an important raw material for textiles caused changes in the way textiles were produced and used. It also caused changes in animal husbandry, land use, social structures, and in the mindset of people but most of all, the sheep themselves, and in particular their wool, were changed. Early domesticated sheep were kept for their meat and possibly skin, but they did not have wool in our sense of the word. Like other mammals they had a coat of hair that included soft downy underwool that grew when winter was approaching and was moulted in early summer. What the early domesticated sheep did have was a potential; their fuzzy underwool had the genetic capacity to develop into wool.

Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leavin... more Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes , to the design and eff ects deployed in fi nished objects. It explores how creativity is closely related to changes in material culture, how it directs responses to the new and unfamiliar, and how it has resulted in changes to familiar things and practices. Written by an international team of scholars, the case studies in this volume consider wider issues and provide detailed insights into creative solutions found in specifi c objects.

Esbjerg: Sydjysk Universitetsforlag, Jan 1, 1990

The Archaerology of Svendborg vol. No. 4, 1986

The Eastern Desert of Egypt during the Greco-Roman Period: Archaeological Reports, 2018

Creativity in the Bronze Age

Le désert oriental d'Égypte durant la période gréco-romaine : bilans archéologiques, 2018

The aim of the membership of the Textle Research Council was to create close links within the fie... more The aim of the membership of the Textle Research Council was to create close links within the field of textiles relevant to the work of the CTF. The first board meeting was held on 31 August 1998.

Rezension zu: Nicole Reifarth, Zur Ausstattung spatantiker Elitegraber aus St. Maximin in Trier. ... more Rezension zu: Nicole Reifarth, Zur Ausstattung spatantiker Elitegraber aus St. Maximin in Trier. Purpur, Seide, Gold und Harze. Internationale Archaologie, volume 124. Verlag Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2013. € 74.80. ISBN 978-3-89646-499-6, ISSN 0939-0561X. 524 pages, 724 illustrations and 7 tables.

Creativity in the Bronze Age

In vol. 64 of the Antiquity, Alojz Benac (1914 -1992) presented a short note on a group of tumuli... more In vol. 64 of the Antiquity, Alojz Benac (1914 -1992) presented a short note on a group of tumuli with exceptional organic preservation that he had excavated 1980-84 in the valley of Kupreško polje in southwestern Bosnia (Benac 1990). Only one of them, Pustopolje tumulus no. 16, contained a burial, with a wooden coffin, parts of a sledge, skin, grass, and the skeletal remains of a man that had been covered with a thick woven wool textile. Benac did not attempt to describe the textile except for a drawing illustrating how it covered the entire burial. In an earlier publication a detail of the border was also shown (Benac 1986: 109) (fig. 1). The textile did not quite elude the attention of scholars (Bender Jørgensen 1992: 103; Grömer 2010: 39) but as the Yugoslavian wars 1992-1995 made communications difficult, the Pustopolje textile has not been given the attention it deserves. This has recently been remedied. It has been examined, restored and re-dated, and is now on display in the...

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, 2013

Karina studied prehistoric archaeology at the University of Vienna in Austria. She specializes in... more Karina studied prehistoric archaeology at the University of Vienna in Austria. She specializes in textile analysis, textile tools, and the reconstruction of prehistoric costume. Since 2008 she has been working on a research project in the Natural History Museum, Vienna. Her current research focuses on the analysis of textiles from graves and salt mines in Austria. Helga studied Celtic studies in Vienna after training in fashion and tailoring. In 2011 she wrote her Master's thesis about the seams and hems on the textile finds from Hallstatt. She works at the Natural History Museum, Vienna, researching prehistoric textiles. Her special interests are prehistoric sewing techniques and the cutting and reconstruction of garments.

Oxford Handbooks Online, 2013

Sofaer, Joanna., Bender Jorgensen, L. and Choyke, A.(2011) Craft production: ceramics, textiles a... more Sofaer, Joanna., Bender Jorgensen, L. and Choyke, A.(2011) Craft production: ceramics, textiles and bone. In, Harding, A. and Fokkens, H.(eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press.(In Press)

Antiquity, 2013

Textiles and clothing are among the most visible aspects of human social and symbolic behaviour a... more Textiles and clothing are among the most visible aspects of human social and symbolic behaviour and yet they have left all too few traces in the archaeological record and it is easy to overlook their importance. Luxury textiles such as silk can additionally provide evidence of long-distance contact, notably between Europe and China during the Han dynasty and the Roman empire. But can these connections be projected back in time to the prehistoric period? The late Irene Good proposed a number of identifications of silk in Iron Age Europe and was instrumental in bringing the issue to wider attention. Closer examination reported here, however, calls those identifications into question. Instead, the case is put that none of the claimed Iron Age silks can be confirmed, and that early traffic in silk textiles to Europe before the Roman period cannot be substantiated.

Antiquity, 2013

As the temperature rises each year, the assemblages of prehistoric hunters emerge from the ice. A... more As the temperature rises each year, the assemblages of prehistoric hunters emerge from the ice. Archaeologists in Norway are now conducting regular surveys in the mountains to record the new finds. A recent example presented here consists of a whole tunic, made of warm wool and woven in diamond twill. The owner, who lived in the late Iron Age (third–fourth centuries AD), was wearing well-worn outdoor clothing, originally of high quality.

Journal of Archaeological Science, 2013

This study presents the results of a series of wool measurements from Bronze Age and Iron Age ski... more This study presents the results of a series of wool measurements from Bronze Age and Iron Age skins and textiles from Hallstatt, and Bronze Age textiles from Scandinavia and the Balkans. A new method of classification that was set up and applied on mostly mineralised Iron Age material has now been applied to a large body of non-mineralised material from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Three types of microscopes were used and their advantages and disadvantages assessed. The results of the investigation cast new light on sheep breeding and fibre processing in prehistoric Europe, and suggest that different sheep breeds existed in Bronze Age Europe.

Creativity in the Bronze Age

Antiquity

Woven textiles from Çatalhöyük in southern Anatolia are among the earliest-known examples of weav... more Woven textiles from Çatalhöyük in southern Anatolia are among the earliest-known examples of weaving in the Near East and Europe. Studies of material excavated in the 1960s identified the fibres as flax. New scanning electron microscope analysis, however, shows these fibres—and others from more recent excavations at the site—to be made from locally sourced oak bast. This result is consistent with the near absence of flax seeds at Çatalhöyük, and suggests there was no need for the importation of fibres from elsewhere; it also questions the date at which domesticated flax was first used for fibres. These findings shed new light on early textile production in the Neolithic, suggesting that tree bast played a more significant role than previously recognised.

Viking

Over many years, illustrator Miranda Bødtker (1896–1996) carried out drawings for botanists, zool... more Over many years, illustrator Miranda Bødtker (1896–1996) carried out drawings for botanists, zoologists and archaeologists at Bergen Museum, the University of Bergen. After her death, thousands of drawings were discovered in her estate. Among them were numerous unpublished drawings of archaeological textiles from five sites. Bødtker’s illustrations show that although several scholars have studied the textiles, none had seen them all. This applies in particular to textiles from two Viking Age burials, Grønhaug and Dale, both of which comprise remains of figured tapestries that are hardly mentioned in archaeological literature. Grønhaug, and a boat from Halsnøy also offer several types of textiles related to the maritime world. The paper presents Bødtker’s drawings and discusses how they compare with published descriptions of those textiles, with drawings of textiles from the Oseberg burial, and to what degree this form of documentation meets current scientific demands.