Tracing Textile Production from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages: Tools, Textiles, Texts and Contexts

Northwestern Europe’s textile production reveals tools, usage, and social dynamics across the Viking to medieval transition.

This book concerns textile production at the fringes of north-western Europe – areas in western Norway and the North Atlantic in the expanding, dynamic and transformative period from the early Viking Age into the Middle Ages. Textiles constitute one of the basic needs in human life – to protect and keep the body warm but also to show social status and affiliations. Tex...