Archaeological Textiles from urban sites in the Moscow State of the 16th and 17th centuries

Archaeological textiles present an important and capacious source of information. Textile material from archaeological excavations of late medieval sites on the territory of Moscow, Suzdal, Kirillov, Tver, Nizhny Novgorod, New Jerusalem monastery (near Moscow), Pereslavl-Zalessky, Vyazma and some other locations made it possible to replenish our knowledge on the types of fabrics which existed there; the techniques of household weaving, knitting, embroidery, and braiding; on the manufacturing technology for textile products; on the cut of secular and monastic clothes; the status of the buried; previously unknown types of ornament; and on the ways of decorating clothes including other textile objects for church and household used in the Moscow State of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.