Like Me Tweet. Weaving and woven fabric In general terms, a textile fabric may be defined as an assembly of fibers, yarns or combinations of these. There are several ways to manufacture a fabric. Each manufacturing method is capable of producing a wide variety of fabric structures that depend on the raw materials used, equipment and machinery employed and the set up of control elements within the processes involved. Fabrics are used for many applications such as apparel, home furnishings, and industrial.
Weaving in a Hand Loom. The most commonly used fabric forming methods are weaving, braiding, knitting, tufting, and non woven manufacturing. Weaving is the interlacing of warp and filling yarns perpendicular to each other.
There are practically an endless number of ways of interlacing warp and filling yarns. Each different way results in a different fabric structure. Please allow one business day for replies from NCpedia. Skip to main content.
Is anything in this article factually incorrect? Please submit a comment. Printer-friendly page Weaving by Johanna Miller Lewis, Textile industry.
UNC Press. Lewis, Johanna Miller. Your name. More information about text formats. The first category includes: common rush or soft rush Juncus effuses L. The second category includes the genus of club-rushes or bulrushes Scirpus sp , common reeds Phragmites sp , reedmaces Typha sp , sedges Carex sp and small-reed grasses Calamagrostis sp. In the second category, the four most common and distinctive species which were most abundant under prehistoric climatic conditions has been analysed.
Selecting particular plants that are known to be used in fibre production from ethnographic, historical and archaeological records will allow the seasonality and scheduling of plant gathering and various activities associated with textile production to be established in the future Barber , Ericksen et al.
This in turn will allow us to answer the second and third questions what methods were used in preparing woven fibres? Those analyses have the potential to lead to a deeper understanding of the origins of weaving as well as developing a new understanding of the earliest technology of plant use, both in terms of technological 'know-how', and what symbolic significance weaving and woven materials had in the everyday life of Palaeolithic communities.
Web access to the plant reference material will provide a focus on the origins of weaving and plants use over the millennia. The research also offers an interdisciplinary platform for multi-disciplinary approaches to plant utilisation going beyond the discipline of archaeology itself. Updated: First published: Identifying the plants utilised in weaving from this period is difficult.
At some sites such as Ohalo I there are exceptionally good preservation conditions, but these sites are found mainly in the more temperate south. Some suggestions for the plants utilised have been made based on impressions or pollen see Adavasio et al.
This project suggests phytolith analysis as the alternative. Phytoliths are inorganic structures created throughout the lifetime of the plant through the deposition of silica within and between the cells. They are deposited in the soil through the decay or burning of plant matter Piperno, , ; Thomson and Rapp, ; Ball et al. Phytolith analysis to look at weaving has been suggested by Hurcombe and carried out at sites such as Chatalhoyuk see Rosen, ; Wendrich, ; and Ryan, Because phytoliths preserve better than macrobotanical remains due to being composed of inorganic silica they can be found at sites without special preservation conditions.
Phytolith reference collections have tended to focus on species of economic importance and so the first stage of this project, presented here, is to look at the species that may have been utilised in the Eurasian Upper Palaeolithic and create a phytolith reference collection.
The images created in this process can be seen at the bottom of this page and can be used as a reference for future analysis. Search site. International students Continuing education Executive and professional education Courses in education. Research at Cambridge. Department of Archaeology. The Origins of Weaving Project. The Origins of Weaving Project Introduction This project contributes to the understanding of the origins of weaving, and its significance in assessing creativity in the Upper Palaeolithic.
Background The development of weaving forms part of the 'human revolution' in the Upper Palaeolithic. Research Questions, Methodology, Methods By combining the three strands of evidence outlined above, this project will enhance understanding of the 'know how' of weaving technology. Significance Those analyses have the potential to lead to a deeper understanding of the origins of weaving as well as developing a new understanding of the earliest technology of plant use, both in terms of technological 'know-how', and what symbolic significance weaving and woven materials had in the everyday life of Palaeolithic communities.
Phytolith Analysis. Phytolith Analysis Identifying the plants utilised in weaving from this period is difficult. People Dr. Bibliography [1] Adavasio, J. Antiquity Textiles and Cordage: a preliminary assessment. In Svodoba, J. Dolni Vestonice Studies Vol.
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