{"id":2730,"date":"2026-03-09T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/?page_id=2730"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:21:15","slug":"weberei","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/open-air-museum\/weberei\/","title":{"rendered":"Weberei"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='a'  class='avia-section av-6boj-964839248dbaa131430c011e9e66912b main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-2730'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-xke3-96c4b674a30a3471a9bbcaf7b1f7955b av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lw9ee3ch-d11a31e74a9cc2ff1604f4e18799e55f\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-lw9ee3ch-d11a31e74a9cc2ff1604f4e18799e55f{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-lw9ee3ch-d11a31e74a9cc2ff1604f4e18799e55f .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-lw9ee3ch-d11a31e74a9cc2ff1604f4e18799e55f .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-lw9ee3ch-d11a31e74a9cc2ff1604f4e18799e55f av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Weaving<br \/>\nFrom thread to fabric<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lw6p7skz-3879436eebab07eb7e420d4d7b81001b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Organic materials, such as leather or plant fibres, are rarely found in archaeological contexts. Unless, that is, they have survived in an environment completely devoid of oxygen. Fortunately, the pile-dwelling villages offer this unique situation. A number of remnants of garments have already been recovered from the lake bed. These are not made solely of leather and fur. On the contrary: clothing made from sheep\u2019s wool must have been rare. Much of the clothing consisted of woven linen and nettle fabric. Or woven work made from tree bast.<\/p>\n<p>Before the inner bark of a tree, usually the bast of a lime tree, could be processed further, it first had to be retted in pits and broken down into fibres. The fibres were woven into mats and later tailored into a cloak or a cap to protect against sun and rain. Skirts and shoes were also often made of bast or grasses.<\/p>\n<p>The same applied to flax stalks: after retting, they were dried, broken, beaten and combed. The resulting raw flax, known as tow, was spun and wound onto a spindle. Soaked in decoctions made from tree bark, roots, leaves and flowers, the threads took on vibrant colours.<\/p>\n<p>Both small looms and large heavy-duty looms could be found in almost every house \u2013 and they were rarely idle: here, the endless threads grew into long lengths of fabric, from which the pile-dwelling people sewed their clothes using fine bone needles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>House type: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two-room Stone Age pile-dwelling (c. 3500 BC), walls made of woven, clay-plastered twigs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reconstructed: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1939, based on excavations at Riedschachen 1 in the Federsee moor, Aichb\u00fchl near Bad Schussenried and Sipplingen, 1923\u20131930.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Homemade clothes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Any child can make yarn and string. Don\u2019t you think? You\u2019ve surely twisted a thread or plaited a braid before. Then you\u2019ve already taken the first step. The next step takes place at a loom. Here, lots of threads are hung up and weighted down. This keeps them in position. Then an extra-long thread is pulled crosswise between the hanging threads using a piece of wood called a shuttle. Back and forth, over and over. Inch by inch, a beautiful long piece of fabric is created.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you spot the little beater used to tap the weft thread into place?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1692,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2730","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5065,"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2730\/revisions\/5065"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i.pfahlbauten.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}