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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...
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MAY
02
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Back from Vienna!

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I'm back home, and back at work. There's tea, there's the very helpful cat (who has now moved to her cat bed again and stopped putting her paw onto the touchpad at the most inopportune moments), there's things with deadline to take care of. 

But first - let me tell you that Vienna was glorious, and wonderful, and really exhausting. It was so good to meet with colleagues again and discuss things in person, with hands-on materials to try out what cannot just be described, and to mingle and chat and have all the extra networking opportunities that you just cannot get over online get-togethers or online conferences.

The organising team did an utterly splendid job at filling our three days with exciting and stimulating tasks. There was discussion of the papers and articles that we all had read in preparation; there were presentations putting those theoretical aspects into context of our own research and projects; there were clothing reconstructions that we looked at (and tried on) from different aspects, and two excursions to see garments - some secular ones preserved in a crypt underneath St. Michael's church, and some very spectacular old ecclesiastical garments still in use in St. Stephen's Cathedral.

There was also an entirely adequate number of coffee breaks, with coffee and tea and biscuits and chocolate and cake. Plus the continued discussions, and extra discussions, in those breaks. There might also have been some hanging out together in the evening, getting food and some drinks.

On the last morning, I felt like there's not enough coffee in the world anymore to get my brain up to the wakefulness and speed that I'd have liked it to be at. There was enough, though, to get me through the day and thoroughly enjoy it up to the last minute, when all those of us who were dead tired did do the adult and reasonable and sensible thing and went home, or into the hotel room, and to bed.

I spent my last morning in the beautiful city having a relaxed breakfast, buying food for the journey home, and getting a bit of bouldering in (there's a gym very close to the main train station) before sitting on my butt for several hours on the train. Where there was wi-fi, and theoretically the possibility to catch up on work, but - see above - there just wasn't enough coffee in the world anymore.

So let's see if I can catch up today, and actually get all the things on my list done...

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APR
13
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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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MAR
23
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Online Workshop "Reconstructing Textiles" on Friday!

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There's an online workshop on Friday titled "RECONSTRUCTING TEXTILES AND THEIR HISTORY: Egyptian Fabrics from the 1st Millennium AD at the National Museum of Denmark". It starts at 11:00 Copenhagen time, and there's a number of interesting topics covered - including some nalbinding, which is how I heard of it: Anne Marie Decker is giving a presentation there.

The workshop is open to the public, but you will need to register today or, at the latest, tomorrow in order to join in. You can do so via an email form that Anne has set up. She also posts the programme on her blog, and some additional information about both the workshop and its background. Go to her post at nalbound.com to find out more, and register if you'd like to do so, and I hope you have a lot of fun!

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JAN
27
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Online Conference Tomorrow!

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There's an online conference tomorrow about warrior elites in the late 6th and early 7th century in Europe - most of the programme listing German titles, but with a few English items inbetween.

The conference is online and held by the LVR Landesmuseum Bonn, who are doing it in preparation of an exhibition. There's a paper by Dr. Petra Linscheid on tomorrow morning at 9:45 Berlin time about leather and textile fragments found in a grave in Wesel-Bislich, and there's quite a few well-known places that will get re-visited in the rest of the conference.

If you're interested, you can download the full programme here, and you can watch and participate in the conference via this Youtube link. 
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DEC
08
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Random Facts of Today.

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Random facts:
  • I have finished spinning warp yarn for the large fabric, and am now doing the weft yarn. I overshot a bit on the warp yarn amount, but that's always better than cutting it too fine.
  • The cat is not amused when she tries to sleep on my arm on my desk and said arm moves too much. It has to move in order for me to work, though.
  • Our new printer does not print things 1:1, but loses about 2 mm in size on 10 cm. So if I have to print something to original scale, I have to enlarge it by 1.03 or something. I'd check, but the paper where I noted this is either underneath the cat, or in the other room, so in both cases currently inaccessible.
  • There's a really amazing optical illusion presented in this video, even if it hides behind way too many ads when I try to view it.
  • Xmas baking madness has started around here. We're late this year doing it. We also need to buy more flour, which might be done through a lengthy bike ride, but it's currently snowing outside and we have not decided yet if we want to brave the weather or not. (If not, we'll have to do something else, like a shorter bike ride or a walk - The Rule is to go out at least once per day, no matter what.)
  • TAG conference is coming up! I'm giving a short presentation there on Friday morning. Registration is still open, and the conference is free.
  • It's Blogiversary day today. Another year has whooshed past... and this will be post number 2759. Hard to believe, but the years sort of add up...
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OCT
06
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Things That Happened During Summer Break (part 7)

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After the Textile Forum, there was a little bit of a breather, and then there was - NESAT! Only online, sadly. I had been looking forward so much to a trip to northern Finland with friends, and then hanging out and meeting in person all the lovely people that I only see every three years there... but due to the insecure situation with the pandemic, the conference organisers had opted for the online-only version.

Our presentations were all pre-recorded and available on the conference platform a bit before the conference proper started, and the sessions were discussion-only (with a very short summary of the papers to refresh memories). There was a large variety of topics, and it was really, really nice to at least virtually see the friendly faces of all the colleagues, and to hear about current research.

My personal conference was made so much better and more enjoyable by joining up with a friend to attend together - and we even managed to have some Finnish sweets and some snacks made after Finnish recipes, along with the obligatory too-large amounts of coffee that have to be drunk at every conference.

After the conference, some of the presentations were made public, and they are listed on the NESAT website - the presentation I did with Beatrix Nutz is among them, so feel free to enjoy some slightly weird tablet-woven bands from Early Modern mining sites. I also very much recommend watching the video about medieval seal bag textiles, which I found very, very fascinating!
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JUN
30
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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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