Early Middle Ages

European Textile Forum 2024

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Organised by
Katrin Kania
Country
Germany

As our focus topic this year, we have "Edges and Embroideries", so we will explore two things that may not have too much in common at first glance. But if we look closer... there are connections!

Charcoal and Brick Burning

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Country
Germany

The new half-timbered house on the royal court of Charles IV is to have a chimney made of bricks. Around 400 bricks made from a mixture of clay and sand are waiting to be burned in the converted lime kiln. Do we get enough oxygen for the wood fire with 8 ventilation ducts in the stove? Will we reach the tempe

EAD22 - Second International Medieval Festival 'New Beginning'

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Organised by
Country
Bulgaria

On 18.06 and 19.06, the Historical Park will host the Second International Medieval Festival "New Beginning", organised on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the opening of the largest cultural and historical attraction in the world and dedicated to the establishment of the Bulgarian state on the Lower Danube at the end of the VIIth century (680-681).

Priae (FR)

The Research Center for Interpretation and Experimental Archeology (Pôle de recherche, interprétation et archéologie expérimentale, PRIAE) is a international initiative.

Research, interpretation and experimental archeology center - its main objective is to increase the knowledge about the musical practice of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, as we ll as the inventory, study and valuation of artefacts adjoining.

Università degli Studi di Padova (IT)

Member of EXARC
No

Padua University, at the Dept. of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology, History of Art, of Music and Cinema is one of the few Italian universities to have an official Laboratory of Experimental Archaeology and this last matter as a study course.

It is called L.A.S.eR.T. (Laboratory of Experimental Archaeology and Research on Ancient Technology), and at present is directed by Massimo Vidale and Ivana Angelini. We have wide a semi-open, covered space with three different potter's wheels, a good set of all the necessary tools, a wide collections of waste material from copper melting, glass making, flint knapping material used in our classes to help students to understand which kind of residues they should expect, when dealing with an ancient workshop, and "alphabetize" our students in a basic dimension of materiality.