The EuroWeb anthology has been published and, best of all news, it's available for free as part of the Open Access policy. The volume includes a lot of essays from many contributors on various aspects of textile research. They encompass a wide chronological perspective and vast geographical area.

All essays in this volume have been written by international teams of scholars from the participating countries. You can find out more and download the full anthology here, or find a list of the chapters with individual download links here.

 I found out at NESAT that I had completely missed a new book coming out last year - about the archaeological textile finds from Prague Castle! The book is written completely bilingual in Czech and English and spans textiles from the 10th to the 18th century. 

You can order it directly from the publisher's webshop here, or through your friendly book-dealer of choice. With almost a thousand pages, it's definitely a larger book, and I'm very much looking forward to it! 

I have this tendency to pounce on free articles and dissertations and so on that can be found on the internet, and to just download them if they might in some more-or-less expectable case be, well, relevant. Or interesting. Or because they sound interesting.

Of course I tend to lose track of what I have already downloaded, so when I'm getting ready to enter the titles into my database, I do a duplicate search first... which usually weeds out quite a lot of doubles that I had gotten, forgotten about, and then re-gotten, because, hey, sounds interesting.

And occasionally I actually get to read at least part of what I have downloaded. The latest one is a phd thesis titled "Archäologische Studie zu ausgewählten Aspekten der mittelalterlichen Handwerkstopographie im deutschsprachigen Raum : Bestandsaufnahme der Handwerksbefunde vom 6. - 14. Jahrhundert und vergleichende Analyse" and was handed in 2022 - you can download the whole thing from Uni Tübingen here.

I haven't read all of it so far, but skimmed through the pdf looking for passages about textiles and textile crafts - and what I have seen so far was both helpful and interesting, especially regarding the different amounts of finds pointing towards textile production in different areas and contexts. So if you read German and are interested in crafts and where they might have been found, check this one out!

One of my lovely colleagues has a new book out - Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert has written a monograph about monastic (not only monastic, though) garments and Greek terminology. Here's her description of it: 

This book focuses on clothing customs and their evolution in the Egyptian monastic environment of late antiquity and the early Arab period. It falls within the realm of studies on ancient societies as seen through their languages, material culture, daily life and religious practices. The research presented here contributes to a general discussion on the clothing worn in Egypt and its role as a social marker. The designations and forms of monastic vestments are explored through a meticulous lexicographical study and an investigation of the garments that have been preserved or are represented in iconography, in order to place them in the context of ancient "fashion" and to shed light on the technological changes that affected their production.
The idea of a costume specific to the monastic rank seems to have appeared in Egyptian society in the middle of the 4th century. This "official" garb was reserved for special situations, such as participation in the liturgy, while "ordinary" garments were worn by the monk for everyday tasks and for sleeping. Considered separately, the elements that made up the "official" attire were commonly worn at this time (with the exception of the apron and scapular), and it was only when worn together that they distinguished a monk from a layman.

The book is titled Le vêtement monastique en Égypte (IVe-VIIIe siècle) and has been published by the Ifao, in the series Bibliothèque d'études coptes, no 28. 

It's always good to have open access publications available - and if you are looking for OA Journals, you might find this Directory of Open Access Journals helpful. 

And if you're reading German and looking for something about clothing regulations in the Early Modern Ages, there's a fairly new book out about those from the archives of Wismar:

While I was doing the website relaunch, I had to look at this and that. Which, obviously, included the site structure, and some of the texts. 

Among said texts were some in need of a bit of editing, or changing, or other tender loving care - and while I'm not finished with all the things I want to get up to date, or nicer to read, or both, I've at least finished one of them recently. That's a collection of online resources: Books and articles that are available for free in .pdf form. 

You can find the list under the main page category "Ressources and Helpful Things", and it's titled "Books and Articles" (much to everybody's surprise, I'm sure).

Because I try to keep my pages fully bilingual, with the same content, the page is also available in German. The contents are about the same, though the sorting is a bit different, and of course the explanatory text is in German. 

I hope you enjoy it, and find something useful in there!

A number of years ago, when Sabine and I ran the very first European Textile Forum, one of the papers was about the dyeing industry at Pompeii. Heather, who gave that paper, got together with Sabine the very next day, and some dyeing took place, and the paper and the dyeing and the ensuing discussions resulted not only in a friendship but also in a number of follow-up archaeological experiments looking into the influence of metal kettle materials on the dyeing outcomes. 

The basis for the presentation that Heather gave back then was her PhD thesis about the dyeing industry in Pompeii - and I'm very delighted to say that it has now, finally, been published by Archaeopress. It's called "Investigations into the Dyeing Industry in Pompeii. Experimental Archaeology and Computer Simulation Techniques" and you can get it as an e-publication or the printed version, either directly from the publisher or from the bookseller of your choice.