Educating a Research Team. Experiences and Results from the Vasa Textiles Project

Summary

In 2017 a project centering on the textile finds from the warship Vasa was started. Its aim is to document, analyze, contextualize, interpret and publish the approximately 300 textile fragments from the personal belongings of the ship’s crew. The finds show a large variety both in state of preservation and in the materials and techniques represented. 

The Vasa Textiles Project is set up as a collaboration between the Vasa museum and the unit for Textile studies at Uppsala university. The first part is run as a series of courses for master students. The courses are organized as a combination of hands on experiences in working with the finds, visits to archives and museum store rooms to give tools to contextualize, and tutoring and seminars as a base for discussion and analysis. This paper will discuss the planning of and experiences from the project and give examples of its research in progress.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2018   •
• Understanding Seventeenth Century Maritime Culture: Current Research on the Swedish Warship Vasa of 1628

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PaperId(s): 603