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The current schedule includes:
Shears & Frontiers: Wool shears in Viking-age graves & their Implications
Samantha Rose, Independent Researcher
Local Varieties of Gold-foil Threads and Gold Braids in the Context of Accompanying Textiles in Early-medieval Burial Contexts
Olga Magoula-Bamford, Research Associate, Department of Archaeology, University of York
“The Loom Used by Women”: Gender, looms and the cloth industry in early medieval Europe
Laurel Ann Wilson, Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University
Second Look at the Early Medieval Scandinavian Checked Linen
Kat Stasinska, AOC Archaeology
Across the North Sea: A comparison of garments from female burials between England and Norway in the 5th – 6th centuries CE
Georgia Gould, University College London
From Central Asia to Valsgärde Sweden
Ingela Wahlberg, Textile Studies Uppsala University
“So I see you are from Gotland!”: Regional variation in Viking women’s dress
Rebecca Wendelken, Professor of History Emerita, Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Tenth Century Norse Dress: The woman’s Smokkr
Professor Heather A. D. Mbaye, University of West Georgia
The Idea of Trousers: Development and change in male clothing during the first millennium CE.
Sarah Thursfield, Independent Researcher, author of The Medieval Tailor’s Assistant