Conference Review: European Textile Forum 2010

Abstract

The Textilforum was founded to bring practitioners of all textile crafts together, to compare notes and to learn from each other. Following the success of the first Textilforum, held in Eindhoven in September 2009, this year’s was held in Schnalstal, in South Tyrol, the German-speaking part of Northern Italy from 6-12 September. The venue was ArcheoParc, a museum dedicated to the recreation of the environment and artefacts of Ötzi the Iceman who had been discovered higher up the valley in 1991. We were welcomed on the first day by Karl Josef Rainer, the Bürgermeister of Schnalstal, Joanna Neiderkofler, the Director of ArcheoParc, Sissi Prader, the President of Museumsverband Südtirol and Alexander Rainer, of ArcheoParc Museumsverein.

Keywords

• workshop
• review
• textile
• neolithic
• chalcolithic
• bronze age
• iron age
• roman era
• viking age
• early middle ages
• late middle ages
• italy