Twined Textiles

Twined Textiles

Due to the soil conditions in the North East, we rarely find fragments of twined textiles. Most of the cordage fragments found in northern Vermont, where found near cooper (Peterson, James B., 1996:56). A pottery shards impressed with the design of twined textile was found along the Winooski River (Power, and Petersen). 

 

 

Twined Dress

Archaic Style Dress (above).  This dress is a work in progress. It is being twined using the same techniques as found at the Boucher site in Northern Vermont.  More pictures will be added as it gets closer to completion.

 

 

Twined Textile Sample (right) made for the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, Vt.

 

 

 

 Twined Sandals

Archaic Style Sandals Prototype (left) made for the Wobanakik Heritage Center. These sandals have been featured in "Always In Fashion: 11,000 Years of Abenaki Attire," at the Vermont Indigenous Celebration 2009 and again at the 2010 Winter Celebration, both at the Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center.

 

   

 

 

 

Email Vera at vlongtoe@vtindigenous.com

"Although they will never be as commonly recovered from archaeological sites more durable materials, textiles and other ephemeral fiber objects and the irrelated materials have been studied intensely for well over a century. There is also much in the way of related evidence at our disposal that does preserve well. Recent efforts in art history, textile history, and archaeology, as well as in textile science and chemistry, have helped to create momentum in bringing cohesion, meaning, and accessibility to this once arcane subject. (Good 2001: 219)