The workshop has brought together a number of scholars addressing textile craft from different points of view. It is my hope that we can...

It's been a great workshop with different perspectives and interesting discussions. One perspective I have been missing is to see and...

Dear all, Here's the very last picture from the workshop taken at the Istanbul airport, where many of us waited for 5 hours to get back...

Dear all, Most of the day was spent in a bus. The bus left the Mövenpick Nabatean Castle at 9.00 am and took us straight to Umm al-Rasas....

Some examples are the concepts described as structured terminology in the Jordan museum where the findings of textile remains from the...

It has been a great experience to listen to many different specialists and professionals, all working on many aspects of textile...

I find this wonderful workshop have not only allowed me to see  and learn about local crafts and to have a close look into  simple  ways...

Great impression made, the "silent" messages the historical costumes gave got you to think about textile finds without any "story". The...

Dear all, We woke up to a delicious breakfeast at the incredible Mövenpick Nabatean Castle in Petra, thanks to Hussam Tours who upgraded...

The challenge is that the textile craft knowledge is rapidly  disappearing, knowledge that we need for our interpretation of the past. As...

The conference has been very nice, with a good mix of people from different cultural and educational backgrounds. It´d be nice developing...

The experience enriched our knowledge a lot but maybe for the next time more participants from other countries Asian, Africans and Arabs...

This conference cum workshop has been a very fruitful experience. The best part was that there was participation from archaeologists,...

Present weaving practices have always been complementary to ancient textiles research in my experience with silks in Lyon, reading Marta...

To participate in such workshop is an opportunity to share knowledge and gain from other experience, the variety of participants was...

As an archaeologist, I have previously been interested in anthropological research relating to traditional crafts production and textile...

Already I have seen the synergies we hoped from this workshop come together in very positive ways but we now have to think about how to...

Dear all, Friday we had to get up at the crack of dawn, 6 am, if we wanted to get to Jerash in time, and see the ancient city. This was...

Dear all, Today has been the most incredible day, and I think many of the participants will agree. Early morning we checked out of the...

Dear all, On day 7 we had a long program ahead of us. We started the day with a guided tour through the exhibition in the Jordan Museum,...

Dear all, It's now Mary Boyd's turn to present on "The Textile Tools of Tall al ‘Umayr". She is telling us about the tools for textile...

Dear all, The first discussion and coffee break is over. We are now continuing with Mary Harlow presenting "History and Textiles: Making...

Dear all, Jo Cutler just finished her presentation on "Interlacing Threads of Evidence in the Interpretation of Textile Production in...

Dear all, The second day of workshop begins with Eva Andersson Strand presenting "Textile experimental archaeology, a link to the past ?"...

Dear all, We had a very exciting day ! We started the workshop at 9 am in the morning, with 4 speakers before the coffee break. This was...

Dear all, Here's Vanessa Workman, our last speaker for today. Camilla

Dear all, Linda Olofsson is continuing with a presentation on "Spinning in the Past and Present". Stay tuned, Camilla

Dear all, It's now Sophie Desrosiers's turn to present on "The Reconstruction of Remarkable Textile Traditions of the Andean Highlands...

Dear all, Here's Jeanette Bortien presenting on "Aspects of Textile Production in Iron Age Transjordan". Camilla

Dear all, Today was the first day of the workshop, and what an exciting day. The bus picked us up at 08.30 am at the hotel and drove us...

Dear all, We're continuing our day and Najd Swidan and Ameera Saied al Zaben just finished presenting on "The role of the Jordan Museum...

Dear all, The first coffee break of the workshop is over, and now Birgitta Nygren and Kirstin Andersson Åhlin are presenting on on "The...

Dear all, Lunch break is now over, and the workshop continues. Toolika Gupta is doing a presentation on "Defining and Redefining the...

Dear all, Susanne Lervad is presenting on "Textile Terminologies and the Concept of Craft". Camilla

Dear all, Just want to let you know that the workshop is finally starting with a presentation from Sue Jones on "Visibility and...

Dear all, Yet another long day has ended. We started the day with breakfeast, now in a bigger group, since all the participants have...

Dear all, When Mary wrote the last entry we were on our way to pick up the last participants for the workshop. A group of 19 women from...

Dear all, We spent today at the Museum getting ready, meeting the caterers, getting the projector right, playing with microphones and...

Hey everyone... The first day in Amman is almost over when I write this. We arrived at the Toledo Hotel at 6 am in the morning. Luckily...

Hey all... Just want to let you all know, that we arrived safely in Amman 5 am in the morning on the 22nd March. It was a long day with 1...