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The Medieval Broadcloth - Changing Trends in Fashions, Manufacturing and Consumption (Paperback)
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The Medieval Broadcloth - Changing Trends in Fashions, Manufacturing and Consumption (Paperback)
Series: Ancient Textiles Series, 6
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The eight papers presented here provide a useful introduction to
medieval broadcloth, and an up-to-date synthesis of current
research. The word broadcloth is nowadays used as an overall term
for the woven textiles mass-produced and exported all over Europe.
It was first produced in Flanders as a luxurious cloth from the
11th century and throughout the medieval period. Broadcloth is the
English term, Laken in Flemish, Tuch in German, Drap in French,
Klaede in the Scandinavian languages and Verka in Finish. As the
concept of broadcloth has deriving from the written sources it
cannot directly be identified in the archaeological textiles and
therefore the topic of medieval broadcloth is very suitable as an
interdisciplinary theme. The first chapter (John Munro) presents an
introduction to the subject and takes the reader through the
manufacturing and economic importance of the medieval broadcloth as
a luxury item. Chapter two (Carsten Jahnke) describes trade in the
Baltic Sea area, detailing production standards, shipping and
prices. Chapters three, four and five (Heini Kirjavainen, Riina
Rammo and Jerzy Maik) deal with archaeological textiles excavated
in the Baltic, Finland and Poland. Chapters six and seven (Camilla
Luise Dahl and Kathrine Vestergard Pedersen) concern the problems
of combining the terminology from the written sources with
archaeological textiles. The last chapter reports on an ongoing
reconstruction project; at the open air museum in Eindhoven,
Holland, Anton Reurink has tried to recreate a medieval broadcloth
based on written and historical sources. During the last few years
he has reconstructed the tool for preparing and spinning wool, and
a group of spinners has produced a yarn of the right quality. He
subsequently wove approximately 20 metres of cloth and conducted
the first experiment with foot-fulling."
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