| Summary: | Part of a series of projects on gender and women in the North Atlantic and their role in textile production. This is a list of archaeological textiles, and was recoded in Torshavn, Faroe Islands. The data is from the Viking Age to the 19th century and each fragment was analyzed for weave type, thread count and spin direction. This was part of the project "Weaving Islands of Cloth: Gender, Textiles, and Trade Across the North Atlantic from the Viking Age to the Early Modern Period (Award no: 1303898)" though its use is on going and was used in the project: Archaeological Investigations of the Eastern North Atlantic Trade and Globalizing Economic Systems (Award no. 1733914) which sought to provide new data on patterns of household-scale production and consumption in the eastern North Atlantic islands and assess the ways that textiles from the rural North Atlantic islands were used, consumed, and traded within the emerging medieval and post-medieval urban harbors of Bergen, Trondheim, and Borgund in Norway. Over the course of 1000 years, trade linking the Norse North Atlantic colonies waxed and waned. Early medieval networks linked the North Atlantic islands primarily with Norway for supplies of key resources, yet archaeological data suggest that by the mid-11th century Icelandic women wove in response to demands for products sold in London and beyond. By the 13th century, these networks expanded, with both the North Atlantic and North Sea integrated into the Hanseatic League's networks linking northern Europe and beyond. From the 17th century onwards, the North Atlantic was integrated into increasingly industrial mercantile networks, controlled through monopolistic practices by the Danish state, linking the cities of northwestern Europe with colonies and consumers across the world. This project was: (1) to assess the regional characteristics and trajectories of eastern North Atlantic women's textile production, (2) connect these collections and patterns with textile assemblages from emerging and central trading harbors in Scandinavia and beyond, and (3) link these results with previous NSF-funded work.
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