Historical Yarns

Hosts Rachel Roden and Heather Boyd bring you a unique podcast organized by seasons. In each season you’ll learn about yarn or pattern styles from around the world: where did they come from? What’s the history? Then you’ll be able to grab the pattern for a custom design based on the topic from either Rachel or Heather. Each episode’s first half discusses history and the second half discusses the pattern.

Recently, new evidence for Neolithic fabric was found impressed on a sherd in the Orkney Islands. In an area where the environment is not conducive to preservation of textile, archaeologists must look for evidence in unconventional ways. Recently, a team from The University of the Highlands and the Islands in Scotland used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to identify the impression of woven fabric on a sherd. Chris and Rachel discuss the fabric impression, how it could have been made, and what the broader implication are of this discovery.

Links

– “Rare evidence for Neolithic Textiles identified on Orkney”, Science Notes, Current Archaeology, July 17, 2020
– Textiles and Animal Skins from ScARF
– Flint Howe, Luce Sands

Contact

– Chris Webster
– chris@archaeologypodcastnetwork.com

Affiliates

– Wildnote
– TeePublic
– Timeular

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