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 shard impressed with the design of twined textile was found along the Winooski River (Power, and Petersen).

Archaic Style Twined Dress

Twined using the same techniques as found at the Boucher site in Northern Vermont. Currently in the traveling exhibit Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage.

Twined Envelope Bag

This bag was made as part of a matching set. It matches the prototype of a Archaic style twined dress and was also made using twining styles that were found at the Boucher site. 7 1/2" x 9"

Twined Textile Sample

(Right) This twined textile sample is approximately 5" x 4". It was made for the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, Vt.

Twined Sandals

Archaic Style Sandals Prototype (left) made for the Wobanakik Heritage Center. These twined 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.

"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)