Textile production in Quartier Mu

Marie-Louise Bech Nosh , Joanne Cutler , Eva Birgitta Andersson Strand (1) , Marie-Louise Bech Nosch. (1)

1 CTR - Centre of Textile Research

The most common archaeological evidence for weaving in the Aegean is the presence of loom weights, which indicate the use of the warp-weighted loom. A wide variety of loom weight shapes have been recorded. In the past, this diversity has generally been explained in terms of cultural, geographical and chronological factors. In contrast, recent research has considered some aspects of shape as an expression of loom weight function. This new approach, which draws on experimental archaeology, has made it possible to render textile craft visible, even if the textiles themselves are not preserved (Mårtensson et al. 2009). It is this approach that has been adopted in the following analysis of the loom weights from Quartier Mu. The chapter divided into four parts. The first part gives an outline of general textile techniques and presents the methodology. The second part consists of an overview of the Quartier Mu loom weights, whilst the third part focuses on their contexts. The results of the analysis are discussed in the fourth and final part.

Keywords: textile production; loom weight; Crete; Bronze Age

Domains: Classical studies; Archaeology and Prehistory

Marie-Louise Bech Nosh, Joanne Cutler, Eva Birgitta Andersson Strand, Marie-Louise Bech Nosch.. Textile production in Quartier Mu. Etudes Cretoises, 2013, V, 95-118, pl. V 1-8, pl. 5.1. ⟨hprints-01056213⟩