| Title |
Analysis and identification of fibre constitution of archaeological textiles |
| Another Title |
Archeologinės tekstilės pluoštinės sudėties analizė ir nustatymas. |
| Authors |
Žemaitytė, Renata ; Jonaitienė, Vaida ; Milašius, Rimvydas ; Stanys, Sigitas ; Ulozaitė, Regina |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Materials science = Medžiagotyra.. Kaunas : Technologija. 2006, vol. 12, no. 3, p. 258-261.. ISSN 1392-1320. eISSN 2029-7289 |
| Keywords [eng] |
archaeological textiles ; spectroscopy ; wool ; cellulose fibres |
| Abstract [eng] |
The textile excavations founded at the time of dig process are called archaeological textiles. Due to injurious conditions when they are buried under the ground the polymeric structure of fibres and former colours are damaged, but the structure of fabric mostly remains. The modern technology of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) allows textile fibre constitution and sometimes the former colours identification. The comparison of various wool fibres in FTIR spectra showed the possibility of distinguishing some animal breed wool fibres and even fibres colours (the difference in natural white and black wool fibre’s spectra was obvious). Investigations of archaeological textile of 13-14 century, which with the naked eye looked brown-black colour, showed that one of the textile was woven from white colour of the sheep wool fibre. The investigations of archaeological cellulose fibre textiles showed a lot of discrepancies. In spite of the fact that it is very difficult to identify the raw material with 100% probability, but preliminary consideration is possible. |
| Published |
Kaunas : Technologija |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2006 |
| CC license |
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