10-13-2009, 02:02 PM
As part of the Azoria project in Crete( See [url:2lu3wtxq]http://www.unc.edu/~dchaggis/2007%20Report.html[/url]), Susan Muller-Wiering (Center for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen) submitted a report on a piece of thread recovered from a bronze helmet crest (02-0013) from A1400 in 2002. It is about 3 mm in diameter, with a z-spin direction, made of vegetal material. The fibers are very fine, clinging together in bundles. There are some so-called dislocations along the fibers, suggesting bast fiber, probably linen. It is seemingly a sewing thread, used to fasten the plume to the helmet crest. Has any one come across this paper? See
Peter Raftos