Visions of Dress: Recreating Bronze Age Clothing from the Danubian Region

Tools tell tales – climate trends changing threads in the prehistoric Pannonian Plain

“…It is plausible that, due to different factors in different areas and periods, similar reasons promoted fibre production as those that later contributed to their specialisations. Although the earliest direct evidence for wool in the studied region dates to the 2 nd millennium BC (Grömer et al 2013;Rast-Eicher, Bender Jørgensen 2013), its much earlier presence must be considered.…”

Missing link: an early wool textile from Pustopolje in Bosnia and Herzegovina

“…No pin holes have been detected; the thick shafts of Early Bronze Age pins mean that visible holes would be expected if the textiles had been pinned in any way. Experiments based on the dress depicted on a Bronze Age figurine from the Lower Danube have been carried out to explore how the Pustopolje textile could have been worn as a draped garment (Grömer et al 2013: 235–37). The results were inconclusive, leaving us without a clear answer to the question of the textile's use.…”

Eneolithic textile production (Eneolitička proizvodnja tekstila)

“…Ipak, u srednjem brončanom dobu tkalački stan s osnovom nategnutom utezima opet postaje najčešće korišteni tip (Sofaer et al 2013: 480), što jasno ukazuje na točku u vremenu kada su novi aspekti proizvodnje tekstila već široko rašireni i potpuno ujednačeni na tehnološkoj razini. Na ovakav zaključak ukazuju složenije tehnike tkanja, bojanja i, ponajviše, predenja, budući da su, kako pokazuju konkretni ostaci tekstila (Grömer et al 2013), različite pređe glavna varijabla brončanodobnog tekstila u Europi (Sofaer et al 2013: 479).…”

“…Nonetheless, warp-weighted loom becomes the most commonly used type again by the Middle Bronze Age (Sofaer et al 2013: 480), which is clearly the point in time when new aspects of textile production are already widely spread and completely consolidated on the technological level. This is suggested by more elaborate techniques of weaving, dyeing and, most of all spinning, since different yarn types are the main variable of the European Bronze age textiles (Sofaer et al 2013: 479), as evinced by the actual textiles remains (Grömer et al 2013).…”