Parcs

ID	TITEL	DATENTYP	AUTOR	JAHR
10349	Nationalpark Hohe Tauern Nationalparkverwaltung Tirol	Organisation/Institution		0

Bemerkungen/Beschreibung

The excavation of the miner's house at the copper mining site Im Blindis (East Tyrol, Austria), in 
operation from 1531 (first written source) until 1715, at an altitude of 2300 metres above sea level, 
unearthed numerous textile fragments. Among those finds were two narrow bands and a broad tablet
woven band with pile on one side. The narrow bands both have knots indicating that they were used 
to tie something, maybe hauling bags. The broad band might have served as a carrying strap with the 
pile as padding.
Most published tablet-woven bands are made from precious materials, often with complex 
patterning or brocading. The technique also lends itself to making simple and very sturdy bands that 
can still be decorative as well. The Blindis find with the looped pile is among the rare examples of 
these more mundane tablet-woven items, which were probably much more common than the number 
of archaeological finds suggests. The two narrow bands are included as well, as examples of simple, 
mundane bands for practical use.
Keywords: narrow wares, weaving, tablet weaving, reconstruction

Eintrag Nr. 56522

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research of North and Central European Archaeological Textiles