Warp Weighted Loom Research Papers (original) (raw)

2025

Class handout on working with colored fibers

2025, Braids, Bands & Beyond - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Braiding ed R Spady ISBN 978-0-9573127-1-5, The Braid Society. Pages 115-120

This article looks at a method of pattern analysis when examining woven patterned bands from northern Europe. Shape (motifs), order and transformation are three aspects. This gives a method for describing the way in which pattern... more

2024

According to Barbara Tsakirgis, the custom of recycling metal and clay 'is amply attested in Greek houses, the first material reused because of its value and the second because of its abundance' (Tsakirgis 2016, 168). Chopping old pottery fragments and drilling one central hole or one or two holes in the upper parts of the newly created objects is an easy way of making textile implements with minimum skill and effort. This is a smart method of recycling discarded materials that were part of items which fulfilled their primary scope but still have the potential and the appropriate features for resulting in new objects useful in the life of domestic artisans. Such tools show the inventiveness of the prehistoric and ancient craftspeople who adapted a multitude of materials, including pottery fragments that were no longer useful and even ordinary stone pebbles, to produce viable textile tools.

2024, Lise Bender Jørgensen, Karina Grömer 2924: Teaching and disseminating of Textile Archaeology – in University and museum contexts. In: U. Mannering, M.-L. Nosch, A. Drewsen: The Common Thread. Collected Essays in Honour of Eva Andersson Strand, Turnhout 2024, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 157-170

Due to the establishment of specific research strategies, especially in the last 20 years, the importance of considering textiles and textile tools from archaeological sites for our understanding of technical, economic, and social aspects of past societies can no longer be overlooked.
The paper presents examples of teaching and disseminating textile archaeology across diverse channels (in universities and for the broader public). This ranges from exhibitions to virtual reconstructions, workshops with children and citizen science projects for the reconstruction of historical handicraft techniques to media-effective historical fashion shows. Archaeological textile research needs a strong commitment to public outreach and education. Textile research in the 21st century also needs to be integrated into the challenges of our time and current debates.

2024, Folia phoenicia 7

The loom weight, a humble functional object that characterizesthe female world in the ancient times, deserves a more in-depth study in relation to the messages it conveys through the various types of marks that are
sometimes present ontheirbodies. The meaning and function of these marks are contro versial, and many interpretations have been elaborated.
Among the various marks, painted, engraved, or impressed on loom weights and in other craft categories, the star/rosette also appears in the simplifed shape of the asterisk. This mark has many symbolic and cultural meanings often linked to feminine and divine sphere. In Motya this mark appears on many loom weights and therefore it deserves some research in order to
fnd out how and why this sign was present on loom weights. This paper will be reconstructed from the presence of the star on loom weights from Motya, the continuity of its value as a symbol closely linked to the feminine world and the deities always connected to it.

2024, Gianmartino di Tiriolo. Scavi e ricerche (2014-2018)

Il contributo rende noti i dati relativi ai pesi da telaio provenienti dal sito di Gianmartino di Tiriolo (CZ)

2024, Re-evaluating textile production and tool deposition at Danebury and the Environs Sites during the British Iron Age

PhD thesis, 2022 The methods, techniques and products of prehistoric textile production are being reassessed globally. A surge in academic interest relating to textiles and textile production has created new and fundamental methods for... more

2024, Later Prehistoric Finds Group Annual Symposium

Experimental archaeology affords the opportunity to assess the viability of theoretical assumptions under real-world conditions. Long handled combs and their use as a weaving tool on the warp weighted loom during the British Iron Age period has considerable validation in the published literature. Though it has been argued otherwise (Touhy, 1995), consensus remains (contra. Beamer, 2022). The exploration of their practical use has rarely been explored (Beamer, 2022), yet the results highlight the missing research potential that practical applications of experimental archaeology can provide. This includes how longhandled combs fit into a system of textile tools, such as spindle whorls, loomweights, and needles, that are utilized as part of the cloth-making process. An ongoing experiment is examined to illustrate how heavy loomweights, such as those found at Danebury Hillfort (Hampshire, UK), impacts the simple process of beating a weft thread into place while creating woven fabric on a warp-weighted loom, and how this element fundamentally impacts theoretical assumptions of craft knowledge. This implication also impacts the methodologies employed within the experimental archaeology community, academically and otherwise.

2024, Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia. Anthology of COST Action “CA 19131 – EuroWeb”

2024, Artifara: Revista de lenguas y literaturas ibéricas y latinoamericanas

AA.VV. L'altra Penelope. Antologia di scrittrici di lingua spagnola, a cura di Brigidina Gentile, Salerno/Milano, Oèdipus 2008 CARLA PERUGINI «Penelope è mito e specchio»: da queste parole tratte dalla presentazione che la scrittrice portoricana Lourdes Vázquez fa della sua poesia «El tejido/La tela» (p. 85) potremmo cominciare la nostra riflessione su questa originale e stimolante antologia, perché ben esprimono, nella loro contrapposizione antinomica, quel crocevia di pensieri e azioni, di identificazioni e prese di distanza, di rivisitazioni e sovversioni, che quest'antichissima figura ha suscitato lungo i millenni che ci separano dalla sua creazione in un poema fondante per la cultura occidentale quale è stato l'Odissea. Perché specchio, perché mito? Se, come specchio, riflette, le stiamo attribuendo una funzione mimetica, grazie alla quale ci troveremmo dinanzi alla riproposizione realistica di una donna della Grecia preclassica, custode della casa prima che regina, madre di un giovane frustrato e animoso, prudente reggitrice delle proprietà familiari minacciate dalle orde dei Proci, ma soprattutto sposa fedele. Fedele oltre ogni resistenza di sopportazione, sia per il lungo tempo trascorso dalla partenza del marito e per la mancanza di notizie, sia per l'età e l'aspetto non sciupati dagli anni, che la rendono oggetto di un desiderio non solamente venale dei pretendenti, e magari una donna che dobbiamo presumere sfiorata dalla tentazione o solo dalla stanchezza. Penelope scaltra, secondo la tradizione, che s'inventa uno stratagemma tanto inusuale quanto efficace per mantenere a bada la scelta forzata di un nuovo sposo: quella tela incessantemente tessuta e disfatta a cui il suo nome sarà legato per sempre. Concreta, dunque, fisica e carnale Penelope. E il mito, allora? Il mito che allontana ogni collocazione in situazioni quotidiane e riproducibili, che stemporalizza i gesti e le figure, che dissolve nell'archetipo collettivo ogni individualità? Eppure, Penelope è anche questo, è mito, e lo è diventato non per la sua dipendenza nella narrazione dalle gesta di un uomo leggendario (e mitico anch'esso), ma grazie a una propria, autonoma, originalissima areté (αρετή), quell'eccellenza, unita all'astuzia, considerata dote peculiarmente maschile (sarà un caso che l'eroe più astuto sia stato proprio Ulisse?), e che le serve per proteggersi da sola in un mondo di maschi, in cui il discorso femminile non puo' superare la soglia del privato, del domestico, confinato com'è a un'esistenza fra le ancelle e gli oggetti quotidiani (fra cui spicca il telaio). Eppure Omero ce la descrive "stupefatta" di fronte all'ingiunzione, sia pur affettuosa, di Telemaco di non intromettersi nelle cose degli uomini, quando, nel Libro Primo, ella, scesa dalle «superne vedovili stanze», supplica il cantore Femio di non rivangarle il dolore rievocando le gesta della guerra di Troia. Lo dice ferma sulla soglia della sala dove sono adunati i Proci per il banchetto, il velo a coprirle la chioma, accompagnata da due ancelle, mentre viene così apostrofata dal figlio: Or tu risali Nelle tue stanze, ed ai lavori tuoi, Spola e conocchia, intendi; e alle fantesche Commetti, o madre, travagliar di forza. Il favellar tra gli uomini assembrati

2024

Dão-se a conhecer treze pesos de tear romanos, com grafitos, maioritariamente provenientes de sítios arqueológicos do concelho de Torres Vedras, com excepção de um único exemplar, cuja origem se desconhece. Tecem-se, também, algumas... more

R. Karl, K. Löcker, M. Wallner, T. Trausmuth, H. Rösel-Mautendorfer, G. Rösel, R. Mann, M. Ellmeier, G. Singer, Die späthallstattzeitliche Siedlung von Mitterdorf im Mürztal. Grabungsbericht 2023. Archäologische Denkmalpflege 4, 70-88.

2024, Archäologische Denkmalpflege 4

Zur Verifizierung geophysikalischer Messergebnisse haben die Autor*innen dieses Beitrags gemeinsam mit Julia Wilding und Christoph Campregher[8] am 16. und 17. Dezember 2023 drei kleine Testschnitte in Mitterdorf im Mürztal ausgegraben. Dabei konnten Siedlungsbefunde der späten Hallstattzeit (HaD, ca. 620-450 v.Chr.) entdeckt und Großteils untersucht werden. Schon die ersten Befunde sind vielversprechend und gestatten es, erste Schlüsse über diese Siedlung und ihre Geschichte zu ziehen. Rekonstruiert werden kann schon jetzt, dass hier ein Haus stand, in dem ein Wegstuhl betrieben wurde, das in einem Schadfeuer untergegangen ist, dessen Brandschutt danach aber direkt neben der Brandruine in einer Grube entsorgt, die Siedlung danach also vermutlich weiter bewohnt wurde. Lokalisiert am Talboden des Mürztals etwa 1 Kilometer entfernt von der Mündung des Veitschgrabens lag die späthallstattzeitliche Siedlung von Mitterdorf auch in einer verkehrsgeografisch günstigen Lage an der Trennung der Verbindungen vom Grazer Becken ins westliche niederösterreichische Donautal und in das südliche Wiener Becken; was sich auch am Fund eines Reifennagels eines späthallstattzeitlichen „Prunkwagens“ zeigt. Die Siedlung könnte allerdings aufgrund und Altfunden zweier mittellatènezeitlicher Lanzenspitzen und Alt- und Neufunden aus der römischen Kaiserzeit durch den Großteil der Eisenzeit hinweg besiedelt gewesen sein oder wenigstens die Weggabelung in die Veitsch während der ganzen Eisenzeit ein wichtiger Verkehrsknotenpunkt geblieben sein.

2024, Advances in Computer-Human Interaction

Despite the cultural, societal, economic and traditional significance and value of Heritage Crafts and Intangible Cultural Heritage, efforts towards their digital representation and presentation, and subsequently their preservation, are scattered. To that end, this paper proposes an approach for their visualization in Virtual Environments, within which the practitioner is represented by a Virtual Human, their actions through animations resulting from Motion Capture recordings, and objects through their 3D reconstructions. Our novel approach is based on a conceptual, twofold decomposition of craft processes into actions, and of the machines used into components. Thus, in the context of this paper, we have developed a pipeline that delivers a Virtual Environment, through which a wide range of users, from museum curators and exhibitors, to everyday users interested by a craft, can experience craft usage scenarios. Via our visualization pipeline, we claim that we deliver an efficient way of visualizing craft processes within Virtual Environments, thus increasing the usability and educational value of craft representation, and opening the way to a variety of new applications for craft presentation, education and thematic tourism. In the scope of this paper, we focus on the Heritage Craft of loom weaving; however, our approach is generic, for representing any craft, after its decomposition according to our technique.

2024, A'tiqot 96, pp. 1-57

The Final Report on the 2002-2003 Excavations at Rosh Pinna

2024, LA CASULA DI SAN PANFILO

t'ovescio la trama lanciata 2o lato è legata in taffetas dagli orditi di legatura. RAPPORTO DEL DISEGNO cm. 26x13,5. ALTEZZA DEL TESSUTO, la pezza di tessuto è particolarmente alta oltre cm. 158 e non sono presenti le cimose. Bordura applicata sul collo: Almatura taqueté façoné. ORDITO: 3 fili di fondo, doppi, in seta avor.io torsione Z, riduzione 45 fìli doppi al cm.; I di legatura in seta avorio, torsione Z,riduzione 15 fili al cm. TRAMA: lo laro in sera. blu e marrone, senza torsione apprez,zabile;2" lato in seta, l'ossa, senza torsione apprezzabile;3o lato in lamina d'oro su l 13

2024, Kinneret II Results of the Excavations at Tell el-ʽOrēme, 1994–2008

On several occasions during the 1990’s a number of ancient artifacts were discovered at different places in the
environs of the lower slopes of Tell el-‘Orēme. As these chance finds were unearthed in non-stratigraphic contexts,
they will be described here according to their findspot. All the artifacts were found in the course of surveying and
inspecting operations under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the wake of development being
carried out in proximity of the ancient city

2024, Kinneret II Results of the Excavations at Tell el-ʽOrēme, 1994–2008 Vol. 1 The Bronze Age, Iron Age II, Post-Iron Age Periods, and Other Studies

With Gershon Edelstein z"l

2023, 30th EAA Annual Meeting in Rome, Italy 28 - 31 August 2024

Since always textiles have been a necessity for daily protection, social display, home furnishing, transportation, war logistics and various other purposes. Even though textiles only survive under extreme environmental conditions, many archaeological finds bear witness to these indispensable goods as well as to the craft itself. Finds such as fragmentary preserved fabrics, textiles mineralised on metal objects, carbonised fibres and textile imprints provide data on the quality and type of materials and techniques used to produce textiles in the past. In addition, a wealth of tools offers insights into the technologies used by prehistoric and ancient craftspeople to process the raw fibres into finished textile products.
Even though textiles were crucial to past societies, they are less represented in archaeological publications than other finds. One of the reasons for this could be their gender-specific character. For decades, they were thought to be the result of a modest domestic craft, mainly practised by women. Other reasons are the general lack of interest in the subject and the lack of knowledge about such objects. As a result, the publication of textiles and textile-related tools is still prone to confusion and misinterpretation.
Recent advances in the field of archaeological textiles provide good reasons for a reassessment of the old literature and for an in-depth analysis of how professionals in archaeology might approach and better publish textile-related artefacts in the future. We call on both archaeologists and textile experts to share their insights into the history of recording textile artefacts, and to suggest new methodologies to integrate these finds into general archaeological publications with the same consistency as other finds. We are also interested in producing, if possible, a short and comprehensive step-by-step guide with basic information on how to correctly record, describe, illustrate and publish textiles and textile tools in archaeology.

2023, Manfred Osman KORFMANN Anısına ARKEOLOJİ - PALEOCOĞRAFYA - JEOARKEOLOJİ ARAŞTIRMALARI II

Archaeological studies carried out at Troy in northwestern Anatolia have previously demonstrated that Troy VI/ VIIa, representing the Late Bronze Age, saw one of its most prosperous periods. As in the whole Eastern Mediterranean Region, the Late Bronze local Trojan culture was also interrupted due to the great migratory movements at the end of the Bronze Age in northwestern Anatolia and the following settlement was subsequently inhabited by newcomers. In general, this new level is labeled the "Dark Age" both because of the scarcity of written documents and the lack of research for various reasons. This period, also known as the "Early Iron Age," begins with the arrival of Thracian tribes in the region around 1200 BC and lasts until the Late Protogeometric-Early Geometric Period, i.e., around 950-800 BC, when the influences of the Thracian newcomers continue. Since there was no continuous settlement in the same place during this period, our archaeological knowledge of the material cultural elements and architecture of these newcomers is quite limited. Finds related to this period have previously come only from Troy, which has been a key excavated site that guides the research related to the Troad and its surroundings.
The excavations conducted at the mound of Maydos Kilisetepe, located on the European side of the Dardanelles, also yielded new data on both the Late Bronze Age and the following Early Iron Age. Although the new Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age data is more or less similar to that of Troy,
excavations also revealed features that are peculiar to Maydos Kilisetepe. This work in this context aims to present new data on this so far vaguely understood Dark Age of northwest Anatolia.

2023, [Thesis]. Manchester, UK: The University of Manchester; 2014.

This thesis examines the warp weighted loom during the Anglo-Saxon and Viking eras in England through archaeological, linguistic, and art evidence, supported by similar information about the loom from Northern Continental Europe. Some evidence from other parts of the world where this specific type of loom was used is also included for clarity. In order to further understanding of the possible functioning and abilities of the loom, modern individuals with experience weaving with this early medieval technology were sought out to answer a questionnaire. The analysis of data gathered is supported with evidence from interviews of some of the respondents. The weavers who answered the questionnaire were primarily associated with the living history or re-enactment movements; therefore a history of these movements and their goals is also included. An analysis of the responses to the questionnaire, including thoughts about how these answers might advance academic understanding of the loom, completes the thesis. Declaration No portion of the work referred to in the thesis has been submitted in support of an application for another degree or qualification of this or any other university or other institute of learning.

2023, Atiqot

Walid Atrash and Amir Golani (Permit No. A-3958), with the assistance of Jeanette Abbas (area supervisor), Dror Avshalom (administration), Yossi Nagar (physical anthropology), Dror Barshad, Aviram Oshri and Butrus Hana (archaeologists, Northern District), Howard Smithline (field photography), Vadim Essman, Viatcheslav Pirsky and Tatiana Meltsen (field surveying), Tatiana Meltsen, Natalia Zak and Irina Berin (drafting), Elena Ilana Delerzon (location maps), Hadas Seri and Yosef Bukengolts (pottery restoration), Lena Kupershmidt (metal conservation), Avshalom Karasik and Argita Gyrman-Levanon (digital artifact drawing), Irena Lidsky-Reznikov and Leonid Zeiger (artifact drawing), and Clara Amit (object photography). We thank the anonymous reader and the editor, Viviana Moskovitch, for her work. 7 At Tel Bet She'an, tufa stone was very often used as building material during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, and the Iron Age (Maeir 1997:16).

2023

The curling eye heddle of the present invention utilizes a curling eye which permits the warp thread used in weaving to be threaded onto or unthreaded off of the heddle at the level of the sheet of warps. The curling eye heddle also permits individual warp threads to be lifted or depressed above or below the sheet of warps, respectively. A diamond adjacent to the curling eye prevents the curling eye from catching or snagging neighboring warp threads.

2023, The Classical Review

TEXTILES AND MINOANISATION - †(J.E.) Cutler. Crafting Minoanisation. Textiles, Crafts Production and Social Dynamics in the Bronze Age Southern Aegean. (Ancient Textiles 33.) Pp. xxvi + 284, figs, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2021. Cased, £48. ISBN: 978-1-78570-966-1. [Only first 3rd of review available open access]

2023

Since 2019, a research project has been ongoing on the many tex le fragments that were excavated in Hisn al-Bab, near Aswan, Egypt (late sixth to early seventh century CE). Part of the study focuses on the determina on of clothing fragments. Seams are an important feature for iden fying garments. An inves ga on of these features revealed that one of Hisn al-Bab's tex le fragments provides evidence for an unusual way of joining two woven tex les without using sewing techniques.

2023

Hadamard type inequalities for convolution of two integrable h-convex functions are derived in this paper. They are sharp for the linear functions. Few particular cases give Hadamard-Pachpatte inequalities for convolutions of functions having more generalized convexity properties: Breckner 's convexity, P-functions, Godunova-Levin convexity, classical convexity.

2023

Interpretierte Eisenzeiten. Fallstudien, Methoden, Theorie – 2. Linzer Gespräche zur interpretativen Eisenzeitarchäologie (03.–05.11.2006) Die Kultur der Daunier lässt sich in Nordapulien in die Zeit zwischen dem 8./7. und dem 4. Jh. v.... more

2022

Weaver's implements of Late Antiquity in Roman Palestine: Terminology and Usage Part I: Rabbinic sources Nahum Ben-Yehuda Bar Ilan University pishtani@gmail.com Alongside the loom itself, weaver's implements (pins, shuttles, beaters,... more

2022, Spantidaki Stella

The thread of life broken: spindles as funerary offerings in the prehistoric Cyclades Αργύρης Μουντζούρης, Κρίστα Παππά Η διαχρονική παρουσία της κάνναβης στον Ελλαδικό χώρο από την αρχαιότητα και οι λόγοι της αποσιώπησής της από τη σύγχρονη ιστοριογραφία Nathalie Bries Euphrosyne AISBL-The Thread Through Time Contents ARACHNE Περίληψη Πρόσφατες έρευνες έχουν φωτίσει πολλές πλευρές της αρχαίας ελληνικής υφαντικής τεχνολογίας και πλέον γνωρίζουµε πως τα αρχαία υφάσµατα ήταν κατασκευασµένα και διεκοσµηµένα µε ποικίλες τεχνικές και εκλεπτυσµένη τεχνογνωσία. Στο παρόν άρθρο αναλύεται ο κάθετος αργαλειός µε βάρη ως το πλέον ουσιαστικό τµήµα των τεχνικών κατασκευής υφασµάτων στην αρχαία Ελλάδα. Η µελέτη περιορίζεται στο εργαλείο, τα µέρη που το αποτελούν, την χρήση του και την κατεξοχήν ύφανση που ανακαλύπτεται στα κατάλοιπα αρχαιολογικών υφασµάτων στην Ελλάδα, την απλή ύφανση. Αφήνοντας κατά µέρος επιπλέον υφάνσεις που δύνανται να κατασκευαστούν στον αργαλειό αυτόν και τις αντίστοιχες διακοσµητικές τεχνικές, εστιάζει στην ερµηνεία των σχετικών αρχαίων ελληνικών όρων.

2022, Journal of Creative Arts

2022, Pyrenae

Resum La secuencia cronoestratigráfica del poblado de la Primera Edad del Hierro del Alto de la Cruz (Cortes de Navarra) constituye un punto de referencia básico para la estructuración del poblamiento en el valle medio del Ebro. Se... more

2022, Conference: International Conference - 2016 (IC-SVIAS) on Traditional Arts in the Context of Globalization

2022, Cuadernos De Prehistoria Y Arqueologia Castellonenses

2022

Revista folosește sistemul de recenzare peer-review Volum indexat în baza de date internațională CEEOL

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2022, Spinnehjul og vevlodd i det Trønderske landskapet

This this survey will describe the history of textiles and textile tools, mainly in the Nordic countries. The main objective of this study is to map the archaeological context in which spinning wheels and looms occur, as well as what material it is mainly made of. The last thing to be investigated is a limited research material from Trøndelag where I will investigate the spinning wheels and the distribution of looms in the region. In the section regarding the archaeological context, I will also look at how previous research has been done in textiles and textile tools. The last two parts of this thesis to be done are through a small study of a selected material from the NTNU Science Museum's Online Collections where I have investigated how many of the spinning wheels and looms are produced from specific materials and their location.

2022, BAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum

The function of loom weights was to stretch and space the warp threads on a vertical loom. The loom weight is often the only preserved remnant of a loom used in antiquity. Because of their ubiquity, loom weights are the main key to the study of textile production in the Iron Age in the Levant.During excavations loom weights are easy to recognize if they are made of metal, stone or ceramics. Within burnt layers, unfired clay loom weights can be accidentally fired and thus well preserved. But it is difficult to recognize and securely excavate unfired raw clay loom weights. The two main problems are:1. Unfired loom weights disintegrate when they get wet.2. When excavating a mudbrick site, the clay of the loom weights resembles the matrix they were found in.Clay loom weights were sometimes fired, resulting in durable terracotta weights, but the majority were made of unfired clay. Unlike Staermose Nielsen (Staermose Nielsen, K.-H. In: Pritchard, F. and J.F. Wild (ed.). Northern Archaeol...

2022, Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies

Different approaches and challenges, sharing experiences but reaching the same goal-a better understanding and raised awareness of hidden archaeological heritage and its protection by presenting it via new information and communication technologies like VR/AR. That´s the main background of the EU-project "VirtualArch-Visualize to Valorize", running from July 2017 to June 2020. 10 partners from 8 central European countries try to elaborate a transnational strategy to valorize hidden archaeological monuments by visualizing them. Therefore, 8 selected pilot sites were digitized/visualized and presented to stakeholders via guided field tours and information points on spot. The pilot sites are presenting different archaeological types, forms and periods like prehistoric and medieval mines, roman and medieval harbours as well as cultural landscapes with prehistoric pile dwellings or urban archaeology with huge and complex stratigraphy. This includes also different areas and environments, impacts and audiences. Although the project is still in its first half, the session seems to be a perfect area to present project and its actors as well as share first experiences with all present professionals and experts.

2022

Der vorliegende Band enthält die überarbeiteten Vorträge des Workshops "Arameans, Chaldeans, and Arabs in Babylonia and Palestine in the First Millenium B.C.", der im Jahr 2010 von den Herausgebern für den Sonderforschungsbereich "Differenz und Integration. Wechselwirkungen zwischen nomadischen und seßhaften Lebensformen in Zivilisationen der Alten Welt" an der Universität Leipzig organisiert und dankenswerterweise von der DFG finanziert worden war. Anstelle eines eigenen Abkürzungsverzeichnisses sei auf die folgenden Abkürzungslisten verwiesen: Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG), 4. Auflage; Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE), Abkürzungsverzeichnis, 2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, zusammengestellt von Siegfried M. Schwertner; Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie (www.keilschrift.badw.de/reallexikon). Sofern nicht explizit anders angegeben, verstehen sich alle Daten im Buch als "v. Chr." bzw. "B.C.". Bei der Drucklegung des Bandes wurden die Herausgeber unterstützt von Simon Krause-Heiber, Marco Stockhusen und Janine Wende. Allen Helfern gilt unser herzlicher Dank.

2022

The following article presents the building of a functioning model of a horizontal treadle loom carried out on the basis of archaeological finds and iconographic sources. The project took place in 1998 at Archaeopark Liboc run by the ARCHAIA association in Prague, Czech Republic (Bureš-Vařeka 2004). Fig. 1 The skeleton of the loom: a side board, b post, c crosstie, d treadles, e frame heddle, f pulley block, g warp beam, h breast beam.

2021, ART AND ARCAEOLOGY IN BYZANTIUM AND BEYOND

The excavations carried out at Kardamaina, Kos by the University of Athens, have brought to light the remains of a Hellenistic temple dedicated to Apollo, along with an array of lesser structures related to the shrine, as well as a settlement with a lifespan from the late 4th
to the mid-7th centuries AD.
This paper aims primarily to record the finds related to the manufacture of textiles, such as loomweights and spindle whorls and to restore the image of everyday life in a coastal settlement of the early Christian period. Issues such as the differentiation in types, the dimensions and
weight of the loomweights, the type of the loom, the quality of the fabric, the number of looms needed and dating will be discussed.
I will attempt to highlight the textile activity in Kardamena and I will argue whether these finds reflect an organized craft installation or an individual household activity.

2021, Metaaltijden 8: Bijdragen in de studie van de metaaltijden

Kamstra, H. (2021). Of whorls and weights: examining archaeological contexts of textile-related ceramics. In S. Arnoldussen, M. T. C. Hendriksen, E. Norde, & N. de Vries (Eds.), Metaaltijden 8: Bijdragen in de studie van de metaaltijden... more

2021

The loom weights from the pottery workshops of Chersonesos, discovered by V.V. Borosova in 1955-1957.

2021, IAEME PUBLICATION

Women today have made use of their intelligence, knowledge and education. They have a prestigious role to play in the present households as well. They enjoy all the comforts and luxuries of life being economically independent; working not only in the primary and secondary sectors but also in the military and defense fields. The descriptive research design has been employed for the present study. Among the dif erent sectors in Chennai, the BPO sector has been purposively selected for the presentstudy. The city of Chennai has been selected to conductstudy on BPO companies and the women employees have been selected randomly thus, simple random sampling technique has been adopted for data collection. The data and information is collected from women employees through pre-tested, structured interview schedule by direct interview method. 500 women employees are selected for the present study in the period of 2017-18. In order to study the dif erence among institutional, leadership, career advancement, and work-life balance and security dimensions of gender issues in BPO sector, the analysis of variance (ANOVA) has been employed. The results further indicate that there is a variation between leadership factors among the women employees of BPO sector. It is observed that there is a variation between career advancement factors among the women employees of BPO sector.

2021, IARSS

The organization of textile craft production has become an emergent topic among researchers in Europe and the UK in the 21 st Century, though it has been more than twenty years since textile production organization was assessed for the Danebury landscape. The Danebury excavators used the distribution ratio of spindle whorls to loomweights to confirm the notion that the hillfort was a weaving centre. However, not long after the first set of publications, dissention of this assessment arose. Marchant (1989) critiqued the assertion that spinning and weaving specialization was as visibly distinct in the Danebury landscape as proposed by the excavators, and focused on the quantification of tool finds to demonstrate an important weakness in the original argument. Similarly, Ryder (1993) suggested that the ratio of spindle whorls to loomweights found at Danebury reflected household textile production, not specialized production. These criticisms have exposed a discrepancy in the textile production narrative for the Danebury landscape. My doctoral study re-evaluated textile tools to assess their utilitarian function through an anthropological view of production and incorporated a depositional study to disambiguate those tools which represent production discard from other discard purposes. This paper presents a new narrative for textile production organization in the Danebury landscape, which was made possible through the modelling of complete loomweight data, and by incorporating insights garnered from the depositional contexts of these tools. Rather than consider one single type of production mode, domestic, it is posited that textile needs varied depending on the type of cloth desired and the approach to production reflected that variance of need.

2021, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies

This article aims to reconstruct the predominant Byzantine weaving practice, a subject that remains insufficiently addressed in the current scholarship. It examines relevant textual records, pictorial presentations, and archaeological findings primarily between the eleventh and the twelfth century. Insights from ethnological studies are also drawn upon to contextualize the observations from historical sources. The above synthesis leads to the conclusion that Byzantines wove primarily on two-bar vertical looms following a practice resembling Berber and Turkish weaving.