Since 1981, the North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT) has taken place every three years, and since
then it has come to deal with finds from all parts of Europe. Among the participants are, among others, textile
archaeologists, historians, art historians, natural scientists, conservators, craftspeople and self-taught persons. Thus
it is possible to shed light on topics in textile archaeology from the perspective of various disciplines. This variety
of topics and perspectives is also impressively documented by the published contributions to previous NESAT
symposia.
NESAT has always aimed at being a forum for the presentation of finds or topics that are currently being worked on and
examined in the course of interdisciplinary research. Communication among textile researchers has become more even more
vivid since the launch of CTR (Centre for Textile Research) at the
University of Copenhagen and DressID, a European Union project
researching how clothing and their wearers' identities relate to each other in the Roman Empire (coordination:
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim). While the first NESAT symposia were still driven by a desire to intensify the exchange
of thoughts and information between the small number of those interested in European textile archaeology, today's
research and assessment of numerous finds and issues takes place across boundaries via frequent workshops and electronic
media. Since particularly the aforementioned institutes conduct in-depth international and interdisciplinary research,
NESAT offers a tested and tried communication platform for those who work in smaller institutes or are not affiliated
with any, i.e. those who by and large research and work on finds or topics in the textile archaeology field on their
own.
| SYMPOSIUM |
PROCEEDINGS |
| NESAT I |
Jorgensen, L. B. – Tidow, K. (Eds.) 1982:
Textilsymposium Neumünster. Archäologische Textilfunde. Neumünster. |
| NESAT II |
Jorgensen, L. B. – Magnus, B. – Munksgaard, E. (Eds.) 1988:
Archaeological Textiles. Arkaeologiske Skrifter 2. Copenhagen. |
| NESAT III |
Walton, P. – Wild, J. P. (Eds.) 1990:
Textiles in Northern Archaeology. NESAT III. London. |
| NESAT IV |
Jorgensen, L. B. – Munksgaard, E. (Eds.) 1992:
Archaeological Textiles in Northern Europe. Tidens Tand 5. Copenhagen. |
| NESAT V |
Jaacks, G. – Tidow, K. (Eds.) 1994:
Textilsymposium Neumünster. Archäologische Textilfunde. Neumünster. |
| NESAT VI |
Jorgensen, L. B. – Rinaldo, Ch. (Eds.) 1998:
Textiles in European Archeology. Göteborg. |
| NESAT VII |
Pritchard, F. – Wild, J. P. (Eds.) 2005:
Northern Archaeological textiles. Oxford. |
| NESAT VIII |
Maik, J. (Ed.) 2004:
Pricelles Invention of Humanity - Textiles. £ódz. |
| NESAT IX |
Rast-Eicher, A. – Windler, R. (Eds.) 2007:
Archäologische Textilfunde. Archaeological Textiles. Ennenda. |
| NESAT X |
Andersson Strand, E. – Gleba, M. – Mannering, U. –
Munkholt, Ch. – Ringgaard, M. (Eds.) 2010:
North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X. Ancient Textiles Series 5. Oxford. |
| NESAT XI |
Banck-Burges, J. – Nübold, C. (Eds.) 2013:
NESAT XI. The North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles. Rahden/Westfalen. |
| NESAT XII |
Grömer, K. – Pritchard, F. (Eds.) 2015:
Aspects of the Design, Production and Use of Textiles and Clothing from the Bronze Age to the Early Modern Era. NESAT XII. The North European Symposium of Archaeological Textiles. Archaeolingua Main Series 33. Budapest. |
| NESAT XIII |
Bravermanová, M. – Bøezinová, H. – Malcolm-Davies, J. (Eds.) 2017:
Archaeological Textiles – Links Between Past and Present. NESAT XIII. Liberec - Praha. |
