Hallstatt Textiles: Technical Analysis, Scientific Investigation and Experiment on Iron Age Textiles

Summary

17 papers from the Symposium on the Hallstatt textiles, held in Hallstatt, Upper Austria, in 2004.

Contents:

1) Hallstatt – eine Einleitung zu einem sehr bemerkenswerten Ort (Anton Kern);

2) Die prähistorischen Salzbergbaue in Hallstatt und ihre Textilreste (Hans Reschreiter);

3) The Textiles from the prehistoric Salt-mines at Hallstatt (Karina Grömer);

4) Genähtes aus dem prähistorischen Hallstatt (Helga Mautendorfer);

5) Dyestuff and element analysis on Textiles from the prehistoric Salt-mines of Hallstatt (Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer, Maarten R. van Bommel and Ineke Joosten);

6) Untersuchungen zum Erhaltungszustand der "Hallstatt-Textilien" (Michaela Morelli);

7) Neues Lagerungskonzept für die Textilien aus Hallstatt (Carine Gengler);

8) Tablet-woven Ribbons from the prehistoric Salt-mines at Hallstatt, Austria – results of some experiments (Karina Grömer);

9) Imitating ancient dyeing methods from Hallstatt period – dyeing experiments with weld, indigo and oak bark (Anna Hartl and Regina Hofmann-de Keijzer);

10) Experiments with Weaving and Weaving Tools – Basic considerations after 20 years of work (Ingrid Schierer);

11) Experiments with the warp-weighted loom of Gars-Thunau, Austria (Ingrid Schierer);

12) Efficiency and technique – Experiments with original spindle whorls (Karina Grömer);

13) Bast before Wool: the first textiles (Antoinette Rast-Eicher);

14) Hallstatt and La Tène Textiles from the Archives of Central Europe (Lise Bender Jørgensen);

15) Iron Age Textile artefacts from Riesenferner/Vedretta di Ries (Bolzano/Bozen – Italy)(Marta Bazzanella, Lorenzo Dal Rì, Alfio Maspero† and Irene Tomedi);

16) More than old rags – Textiles from the Iron Age Salt-mine at the Dürrnberg (Hallein-Dürrnberg) (Thomas Stöllner);

17) The State of Research of La Tène Textiles from Slovakia and Moravia (Tereza Belanová).

Cite this Record

Hallstatt Textiles: Technical Analysis, Scientific Investigation and Experiment on Iron Age Textiles. Karina Grömer, Johannes Reschreiter, B Bichler, Anton Kern, Regina Hofmann- de Keijzer. BAR International Series. Oxford: Archaeopress. 2005 ( tDAR id: 424258)

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Keywords

General
Clothing Experiment Textiles

Geographic Keywords
AUSTRIA

Temporal Keywords
Iron Age

Spatial Coverage

min long: 9.534; min lat: 46.407 ; max long: 17.166; max lat: 49.019 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): EXARC Experimental Archaeology Collection Manager

Record Identifiers

ExArc Id(s): 12590

Notes

Rights & Attribution: The information in this record was originally compiled by Dr. Roeland Paardekooper, EXARC Director.