Seminar at Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen Monday 21st of January 2019 Together with the Centre for Textile
One of the key characteristics of Meroitic textiles resides at their very heart: before the threads and weaving techniques, it is their raw material – cotton fibres – that defines them as a unique textile tradition. Among the hundreds of textiles that I have been studying so far, up to 80% are solely made of cotton. As a young researcher first working on textiles, I did not pay much attention to that fact. As it was