So as I said in the introduction, I think it's really important not just to talk about the tools or the textiles You need to include a whole landscape when you discuss production on a certain site The resources as I said technology and the textiles and in the 90s I did an investigation of seven late iron age Viking age settlements in Scania Five of them were considered as a great agrarian there is one port of trade that is all this on the On the right here and then a small village and that is Lodger shopping And Lodger shopping is a very special place and I will not go into that place today but I did record quite a lot of textile tools and Generally the majority of the textile tools they were found in the pit houses and I only recorded or I Noted the tools coming from the floor layers because we all know that there is a lot of tools and other things in the filling of the room So all together I studied 392 pit houses. There were textile tools in 202 of them There was a high number of spindle walls and There were also quite a lot of loom weights in the pit houses and the results They indicated a very production of different types of textiles on the agrarian sites and in the small village Except the very hard fine qualities They were only visible this production was only visible in the port of trade in Ohers But the question is how how can we fill a house? How can we furnish a house with textiles? This is the reconstructed Trellebois house in the former Høysviking village in Sweden How can we take all this one step further and discuss the consumption and fill the reconstructions with color life and textiles Hagen he wrote When he was discussing Osibai in the hall at Osibai Protected for the banquet will be held vivid contrast on the benches There were cushions made matching the unsumption hangings on the lower walls Which was simply at striking in appearance for the endless repeating pattern in a subtle check of the least at least free colors But above the heads of the seated guests There ran a banner with a freeze in vivid variety of powerful colors Showing a French of adventures from the sagas and the myth There is no textile archaeologists that would dare to write something like this But what do we have today what do we know about how they furnished the whole Well, of course, we have something from the sagas. I sat with Torah seven half years Hawkins daughter in Denmark She embroidered it in gold for my pleasure southern halls and Danish swans We also made pictures of the men's warplay together and the warriors of the prince in our hand work handy work And we have quite a lot of mentions of Tapestries in the sagas. Here is another one from Gisle Seussons Weston who have traveled to Denmark and England brings home with him this valuable wall hanging When the time comes to celebrate the autumn festival to greet winter and make sacrifice to fray the people of Serbo farm set to decorating the walls with tapestries and To spread hay on the floors When this is going on the desire to gain ownership of Weston's wall hanging grows and the intrigue begins This will be continued We also have early medieval texts describing different types of textiles For example, we have a refill or body of room and that is a border or rather a long narrow piece of cloth woven or with woven or embroidered pictures We have your that is a gable decoration Triangle a rich decorated textile intended for the use for the gable of the house We have a regular gun and that is hangings placed above the benches fixed against the wall Sutri and that is probably a linen cloth spread under the roof to protect against the falling shot and Then there is the name shalt and they think that there's a Collective turn of various types of covers that also for the protected cloth that was used to cover the ship ship when moored and An Iceland the word denoted a single with fabric that runs the whole length of the church hall So this is absolutely not a Viking hall. This is an old photo that shows simple house in the beginning of 1900 but here you can actually see some of those textiles up here. You have the subject The linen cloth Here you have the refill or Baudi and here you have the black gun and please note that this is also decorated. It's decorated for Christmas It's not something that you have up every day. It's special occasions when you use this But what about the textiles? themselves, well, I will be very surprised if you haven't seen those Tapestries be first Norway, this is an old reconstruction Marjana will give you all the information later in her presentation And of course we have the by job tapestry dated to the end of the 11th century, which is 70 meter long and 50 centimeter high another very famous tapestry is the other Hawk doll and that is dated now to 2014 to 1170 and It is actually you can only see Four pieces here, but there are actually five pieces in this tapestries because when it was found in the beginning of 1900 1910 to be exact it looked like this The tapestries they were actually so they were joined together But what is interesting is that they were joined together in the 14th century And that is a couple of hundred years after they were produced Showing us how long time you can have a textile if you keep it We if you preserve it well And there is another fantastic that I would like to show with you and this is the Oriental Mavic carpet It has a border if you see up that is a technique that is called the double weep It's dated to 980 to 1160 carpet is made in Turkey We don't know how it came here, but I think it's made in Turkey and it's dated to the 14th to the 15th century But what is even more fantastic is that the sewing thread is stated to the 19th century so in the 19th century someone sewed those parts together and this also Demonstrate how valuable the textiles are when they are preserved in nearly So we do have the sumac technique But we also have other techniques and textiles dated back not only to the early medieval but also to the Viking age Here are some examples First you see a Rebson's church they did 780 980. It has only a width of 15 centimeters, but it's several meters long There is a part of overhaul doll that is not so much, but it's also a double weep It's 106 76 centimeters long and 26 to 30 centimeters wide And then we have the piece from Marble Church 980 to 1160 and it's only 17 centimeters But we also have much wider textiles and I do apologize for not having a scale on this But this is actually a quite big textile and this spades back to 990 to 1160 and this is a cover It's also a double weep and first you just see the geometric Geometrical patterns and when you start to look very careful, you can for example In the middle up you can see your ship so there is full of decorative elements in also those double weeps Besides all the weeps that we have we also have embroidery and I'm fully assured I know that some of those embroideries they are dated to the medieval period they are Christian but all those different sewing techniques We have also found from the Viking Age or from previous periods The textiles they were kept and they were kept in chests Here is one example that could have you could have had textiles in from Usova But there is also example to the left you see a stonda and again I have to apologize for not having a scale on it, but this is actually quite used Something like this. It's high They have said they have been interpreted also to being used for baptizing But there are some scholars that says that this could also be used to keep the the textiles in them And also for dowry something that we also need to include in our discussion Okay, we continue with Gisle Suston Saga so The hangings Now when Tugrem and his men were busy putting up the hangings in the hall to room and all at once said to Torkel Those hangings would become in well those fine ones I mean that Westin wish to give thee me thinks there is a great difference between you having them for a day or having them all together So I wish those would sense for them now So he sends a man to Gisle's house Where Gisle and his wife odd were working hard to putting up the hangings and German told his errand and the whole story well odd said Gisle Will you lend them the hangings why I asked me at all says odd When though no is that I would neither grant them this or not or or else that would do them any honor So she didn't want to lend him the hangings and this was the start of a very bloody fight So this was just to give you an idea about other types of textiles and not just the textiles used for clothing And I think that it is important not just to discuss the Solonii household our needs I think we also needs to discuss these types of textiles That also requires maybe some special knowledge and skills and maybe also that they use raw materials So better a higher quality for example imported silk But also something that they didn't not in that they didn't work with full-time So I think it's important again to include all the different sources that we have to include the landscape of the textile production and then Maybe there is some archaeologists that textile archaeologists that in the end could write Something that the in the wall hangings woe when scenes that attracted and held the ice and On the ice attention that we can dare to make the holes come alive and furnish the houses So thank you for your attention