This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this important and stimulating area of archaeology. From the golden robes of a Roman burial, to the fashionable Viking in Denmark, through to the early modern period and more technological aspects of textile-research, these twenty-four papers (five of which are in German) provide a wealth of new information on the study of ancient textiles in northern Europe.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations for NESAT Volumes
• Chapter 1: Gold Textiles from a Roman Burial at Munigua (Mulva, Seville)
• Chapter 2: Two Gallo-Roman Graves Recently Found in Naintré (Vienne, France)
• Chapter 3: Das Mädchengrab der Fallward: Vorläufiger Bericht
• Chapter 4: Frühmittelalterliche Textilien aus der Nordostschweiz
• Chapter 5: Textile Pseudomorphs from a Merovingian Burial Ground at Harmignies, Belgium
• Chapter 6: Denmark – Europe: Dress and Fashion in Denmark’s Viking Age
• Chapter 7: Brocaded Tablet-Woven Bands: Same Appearance, Different Weaving Technique, Hørning, Hvilehøj and Mammen
• Chapter 8: Textile Production at Birka: Household Needs or Organised Workshops?
• Chapter 9: Who Produced the Textiles? Changing Gender Roles in Late Saxon Textile Production: the Archaeological and Documentary Evidence
• Chapter 10: Handwerk oder Industrie? Erfahrungen bei der Herstellung eines hochmittelalterlichen Wollgewebes auf dem Gewichtswebstuhl
• Chapter 11: Textiles of Seafaring: an Introduction to an Interdisciplinary Research Project
• Chapter 12: What Makes a Viking Sail?
• Chapter 13: Textiles for Transport
• Chapter 14: The Greenlandic Vaðmál
• Chapter 15: Stand und Notwendigkeit der Forschungen über die mittelalterliche Wollweberei auf dem südlichen Ostseegebiet
• Chapter 16: The Collection of Archaeological Textiles at Prague Castle
• Chapter 17: Textilfunde aus dem dreizehnten bis siebzehnten Jahrhundert: Neue Funde – Neue Erkenntnisse
• Chapter 18: Sixteenth-Century Textiles from Two Sites in Groningen, The Netherlands
• Chapter 19: ‘The Apparel oft Proclaims the Man’: Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Textiles from Bridge Street Upper, Dublin
• Chapter 20: Women’s Robes Excavated from the Burial Crypt in the Holy Virgin Mary’s Church, Toruń, Poland
• Chapter 21: The Influence of West European Fashion on the Clothing of Toruń’s Townsfolk
• Chapter 22: The Human Development of Different Fleece-Types in Sheep and Its Association with the Development of Textile Crafts
• Chapter 23: A Preliminary Classification of Shapes of Loomweights
• Chapter 24: Remarks Concerning Some Details of Early Spinning Wheels
• Addresses of Speakers