Savaria - A Vas Megyei Múzeumok értesítője 24/3. (1997) (Szombathely, 1997)

Marton Erzsébet: Régészeti park volt Velemben

MARTON ERZSÉBET: RÉGÉSZETI PARK VOLT VELEMBEN The tabby This is the simplest and earliest form of weaving. We know its evidence from the Neolithic period as well in the Carpathian Basin. I used woolen threads for the warp and the weft, and I made a sample with linen warp with woolen weft. The twill I made an experiment on the warp weighted loom, what is a little bit slow, but very simple. I insert weft around all the páratlan threads of the warp, then I have changed the shed, and did the same again. In that case we are able to weave the twill on the warp weighted loom used from the Neolithic Period. I do not think, that we have to wait until the Bronze Age to create the twill technics, as the archaeology supposed it before. Conclusion 1. Making warp, it is very easy. To reconstruct its technics - this is the main prolblem, because the archaeological material does not provide an answer of it, we could say, only one thing can help us : the practice of the weavers and its physical testing. 2. In situ found loom weights problem If you could Und rolls of weights in a pit or in a house, it does not mean automatically, that we found the real loom in the same place» It is only the archaeological evidence of the existence of a verical, warp weighted loom. It is not nothing, as we used to say. In that case, what is the raison of the hanging weights on a reconstructed empty loom, if we could not find any organic matter under the loom? What could we find in the pit? I can suppose when we cut the warp, we can registrate the same situation, what we used to observe in the excavation. The Weights were folien dawn in the same rows, as they hade hanged before. The ideal situation is very rare, but we could find a sample for that in Hungary, in Gorzsa, where the settlement burned up, and the inhabitants left all of the things behind, for exmaple the loom with the weft. 3» Aftif these my poetical question was, when could we reinforce the one-time base of the experimental archaeology in Vas County by the aim of the Savaria Museum? Erzsébet MARTON Kulturális Örökség Igazgatósága H-1053. Budapest, Magyar u. 40. Pf.: 211. 419