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Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion
18 September 2026
Hi Rachel, I have looked for more photos of you, but that was not very successful. I found a link on...
Guest - Beatrix Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...
Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
I was not referring to Rachel's reconstruction (is the reconstruction you refer to the one photograp...
Guest - Beatrix Sprang Discussion
14 September 2026
There is something Rachel did not mention. She told me: "Well, I worked with the measurements we too...
Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion
14 September 2026
Well, this is certainly developing into an interesting discussion. Firstly, going from that lovely l...
CfPs
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NESAT 15 - CfP is out!

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If you're a textile archaeologist, there's one highlight, conference-wise, that comes up every three years: the NESAT. Short for Northern European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles, this started as a very small thing to make a few lone textile researchers a little less lonesome - and now it has grewn into something relatively large, and absolutely awesome. My first NESAT was the one in Copenhagen, Number ten (and I still have the t-shirt, literally). 

Now the Call for Papers for NESAT 15 is out. It will take place in 2024 in Warsaw, Poland; the CfP is open until the end of October this year. Find out more, if you're interested, on the official conference page here.

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Experimental Archaeology Conference 2023 - CfP

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EXAR has its annual conference on October 5 - October 8 this year, and it takes place in Lauresham/Lorsch. The central topic of the conference is: "Experimental archaeology in science and education 2023". 

Registration and CfP for the conference are now open, and you can register via their website. (I haven't been able to attend for a number of years now due to timing conflicts, but the conference used to have a lot of German contributions, and last year's conference programme lists exclusively German titles for the contributions. So the conference probably makes you happier if you have good enough German language skills.)


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CfP - Dyes in History and Archaeology

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If you like colours, especially those of the past, well, here's a Call for Papers for you: 

The CTR, The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, The National Museum of Denmark, and The Danish School of Conservation are jointly hosting this year's conference on Dyes in History and Archaeology (DHA 42) in Copenhagen from October 31st to November 3rd.The call for abstracts is open with the deadline being the 1st of May of 2023, so please consider sending your proposal! 

Here is the link for the conference website with all the necessary information: Dyes in History and Archaeology 2023 DHA42

I'm very, very tempted every year to go to this conference... even though I'm no dye specialist. But, well, the colours! The chemistry! The magic! I won't manage to go there this year either, as it's way too close to the European Textile Forum week and I will be doing the necessary prep work at that time, but some day I will surely make it.  

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Conferences Coming Up.

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There's conferences coming up, and CfPs are out - here's what I found in my diverse feeds:

Dressed, The Widespread Role of Clothes, Textile Production and Clothing Concepts in Society. June 22-24, via Zoom. Deadline for submissions is April 20. Find out more at dressconference.org. 

Also looking for contributions: The conference "What's in a Name?" taking place in June this year in Braga. Deadline for contributions is April 15 - yes, that's short notice, sorry.


Finally, the conference Interwoven Society takes place November 14-17 in Lübeck, Germany. This will focus on the impact of textile industry on society; CfP is open until April 17. You can find out more, and find links for submitting abstracts, at H-Soz-U-Kult here. 

I will definitely not be able to attend the last conference mentioned - we have a date for the European Textile Forum this year, and it will be November 5-13. More about that soon, here and on the Forum website!

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09
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CfP, CTR events, free access to literature

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It's time for something like a link roundup again - textile conference related, this time.

The CTR has their programme online for 2022, and there's a number of meetings and lectures that everybody can attend. Every second wednesday there is a meeting from 14:00 to 15:00 followed by a presentation with discussion starting at around 15:00. The next one is on March 16, about modeling public buyer behaviour towards circular textile products and services. Learn more about the lectures on the CTR page (click the lectures link to download the current pdf programme).

EuroWeb has a Call for Papers out for a seminar which will take place in Portugal, June 29 to July 1st. The seminar is titled "What's in a name? Toponyms and loan words as textile labels across time.". The CfP is open until April 15, and you can learn more about the seminar and find out how to take part here.

Springer is granting free access to some of their programme until March 31st - including some archaeology things. Find out more here.

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JUN
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EXAR Conference in September - CfP

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This year looks much better for in-person, on-site conferences than last year - though there's nothing really secure still at the moment. However, not only the Textile Forum is betting on everything being good enough, EXAR is also planning a conference this year.

It will take place in Perl-Borg, in a Roman villa museum; I've been there several times for Reenactment fairs, and it's a really beautiful place with lovely people running it. The EXARC conference is scheduled for September 23-26, and the topic is "Experimental Archaeology in Science and Education 2021". The Call for Papers is open until July 31, and registration for the conference is open as well. You can find out more about the conference here, and also register for it.

Talks will be in English and German, with a yet unknown ratio of the two languages. The board asks that slides for the presentations should be bilingual or in the other language than the one used for speaking so that everyone can follow along somehow.

I'm absolutely delighted that EXAR is using this as their current solution to the language dilemma - the society has developed into a larger, more international one from a purely German start, and a lot of the older members struggle with English as a conference and conversation language. Mind you, some of that struggle is probably due to the fact that Germans often underestimate their abilities in speaking and understanding English, and are a bit shy to use a foreign language because they feel self-conscious for all their mistakes.

I'm a proper German in that regard as well, by the way. I like to get everything right, and I do have to tell myself all the time that making mistakes is not bad, not speaking or writing to practise the other language is bad - and if that means making mistakes, that's good. It has gotten better recently with my wholesale slaughtering of the poor Finnish language, and the medieval French lessons where I also enthusiastically threw around interpretations that turned out to be, um... not quite matching the original content of the text. There was lots of learning that way, though.

It did help that the others in the study group also ventured forth with things they were not sure about, too. So offering up tentative solutions, or trying to talk about something where you might be a bit creative with vocabulary or pronounciation does not only help yourself to learn - it also helps others to maybe be more courageous. Good things all around!
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CfP Early Textiles Study Group - and EXARC textile chat.

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The Early Textiles Study Group has opened their Call for Papers for the next conference, which is planned for Manchester on September 9-11. In case in-person is not possible, it will be held virtually.

The title is ‘Legacy: textile studies, the past informing the present’. The ETSG is thus looking for papers that explore any aspect of the legacies of the study of early textiles. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
  • Pioneers in the study and reconstruction of early textiles,
  • Collections, their histories and their futures,
  • Fresh insights gained by applying new methodologies to old collections and archives.
The CfP is open until June 1st.



Definitely virtually, and taking place this Saturday, is the next EXARC textile chat. As usual, you can find it on their Discord server, and it will start at 15:00 CET. This month, the topic is embroidery.
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