I've gotten the information that there's a new open access book out, about - natural dyes! The book is the result of an EU project to help revive natural dyeing, but is mainly geared towards educational and artistic users. 

You can download the pdf for free from this website. I hope you enjoy it (and thank you Mari for the information!)

Thanks to my lovely textile colleague Sarah Goslee, I've been pointed to the DOAB - the Directory of Open Access Books. And yes, it does contain quite a number of textile-related books!

You will probably have to filter down if you only search for "textile", as there's a lot about modern speciality textiles and modern textile manufacture in the list, but fortunately an "archeology" filter exists, as do several others.

You can find the main directory at https://www.doabooks.org/en. I hope it will be helpful for you!

There's a book out, published at Brepols, with essays in honour of Eva Andersson-Strand - and the very good news is: It's not only available to buy in printed form, but also as a free e-book!

The book has 24 chapters, and you can find it (including the open access link) here.

For a nice change, here's some really lovely news for those of you involved in braiding! If you've done research about historical braids, especially regarding their structures, you will surely have come across the name "Noémi Speiser". Sadly, Noémi died last year, but she has left as her legacy, among other things, four books about loop braiding.

Thanks to the efforts of several other people, among them braiding specialists Joy Boutrup and Carol James, The European LoopManipulation Braiding books are now available for free on Carol James' website www.SprangLady.com. You will find them under store, then educational materials, then books by others. Their titles are European Loop Braiding Vol I, II, III, and IV. The direct link to the books is https://www.spranglady.com/store/c10/Other_Books.html.

You will have to put the books into your cart and then go through the checkout procedure; you will then get to a page with direct download links, plus receive an email with the download links.

I hope you'll enjoy them - and a big, big thank you to Carol, Joy, and the others involved who made this possible!

After pointing you to French articles last week, here's another wonderful piece of news regarding publications: 

The York Archaeology Trust is very happy to announce that the fascicules AY17/5 Textiles, Cordage and Raw Fibre from 16-22 Coppergate, and AY17/11 Textile Production at 16-22 Coppergate are now available on their Collections website by kind permission of the Estate of Penelope Walton Rogers! 

These are wonderful resources - so if you don't happen to have them already in printed version, go head over there and enjoy. And thank you, York Archaeology Trust! 

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!