Results 11 to 20 of about 19,330 (285)
Women’s work: The dedication of loom weights in the sanctuaries of southern Italy
Pallas, 2011 Loom weights are a common find in the sanctuaries of the ancient world. These small, portable, and inexpensive objects, however, are often marginalised in scholarship as merely remnants of weaving that took place at the site, or as low status dedications.
Alexandra Sofroniew
doaj +1 more source
The Late Bronze Age settlement site of Březnice: Magnetometer survey data
Data in Brief, 2021 The archaeological site of Březnice (Czechia) represents one of the large settlements of the Late Bronze Age (Ha A2/B1, 14C: 1124–976 BC) in Bohemia. The site became known mainly for a high number of so-called ‘trenches’, oblong pit features (breadth ...
Martin Kuna +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Ancient Loom Weights at the J. Paul Getty Museum [PDF]
Getty Research Journal, 2023 The article presents a group of twenty-two mostly unpublished terracotta loom weights in the Villa collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Most have been classed as coming from the southern Italian Peninsula and are discoid or hemispherical. A functional analysis based on experimental archaeology demonstrates that these loom weights were used for ...
Nosch, Marie Louise Bech +1 more
openaire +2 more sources
Loom weights – a general typology of finds from Poland
Przegląd Archeologiczny, 2019 This article presents a proposal for the general classification of loom weights used as elements of the warp-weighted loom, which is the oldest and longest used tool for the production of fabrics.
Joanna Słomska
doaj +1 more source
Asia Anteriore Antica, 2020 This study deals with tools linked to textile production in central Anatolia in the transition period between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC. It is a critical phase which begins with the crisis and collapse of Hittite Empire and which is characterized
Alice Bonacchi
doaj +1 more source
Early Medieval Looms in Poland in the Light of Archaeological Finds
Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2018 The purpose of the paper is to present types of looms used in Poland in the Early Middle Ages in the light of archaeological finds. The basis for the source form parts of looms like loom weights and weaving tools. The authors present evidence discovered
Łukasz Antosik, Joanna Słomska
doaj +1 more source
SHAPE OF THINGS: UNDERSTANDING A LOOM WEIGHT [PDF]
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2009 If there is one thing to be learnt from watching people work in old traditional crafts it is this: The tools and the working procedures are never clumsy, never impractical (Hoffmann 1988) SummaryLoom weights are common finds in archaeological excavations in Europe and the Near East ...
Mårtensson, Linda +2 more
openaire +1 more source
EXARC Journal, 2023 Ceramic crescents are a common find at Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in southwestern Iberia (late fourth – third millennium BC). These objects, which often weigh less than 100 g and are perforated on each end, are typically referred to as loom ...
Victoria Priola
doaj
Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2018 The subject of this article is the organisation of textile production in the settlement of the Lusatian Culture in the village of Ruda, Grudziądz Commune, Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship. The discovery of 63 spindle whorls and their fragments, as well as
Magdalena Przymorska-Sztuczka
doaj +1 more source
EXARC Journal, 2021 An experimental programme at Butser Ancient Farm run between 2015 and 2017 was to investigate weaving within a roundhouse on a warp-weighted loom. Part of these investigations was an examination into the feasibility of moving the loom in and out of the ...
Helen Poulter
doaj