Dig deep into the details – Clothing from Vasa analysed at The Cultural Heritage Laboratory
- Date: 23 February 2024, 13:00–15:00
- Location: Observatory Park, Old Observatory, Kyrkogårdsgatan 8A, seminar room Cassipeia.
- Type: Seminar
- Lecturer: Anna Silwerulv is a dress and textile historian at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. Sara Norrehed – PhD in organic chemistry, Heritage Science Investigator at the National Heritage Board's Cultural Heritage Laboratory in Visby.
- Web page
- Organiser: Uppsala Technical Humanities Network and CIRCUS
- Contact person: Britt-Inger Johansson
During the excavations of the Vasa ship from 1628, around 12,000 fragments of textiles and leather from clothes and shoes were found, coming from the crew's packing and the clothes worn by those who perished when the ship sank. The finds lay untouched in storage for a long time, but since 2017 work to document, analyse and reconstruct the objects is ongoing to lay the foundation for further research.
In 2019, Anna Silwerulv was accepted as a guest colleague at RAÄ's Cultural Heritage Laboratory in Visby to get help investigating which natural scientific analysis methods can be useful for studying objects. Sara Norrehed and Marei Hacke at the laboratory have supervised and helped with analyses of fibres, materials and colours using various optical microscopes, SEM, XRF, MBI and FTIR.
Anna Silwerulv specialises in the study of maritime archaeological textile finds and is responsible for researching the finds of clothes and shoes from the ship Vasa from 1628. Her research interest mainly concerns aspects of textiles and clothing from the early modern period, practical knowledge and interdisciplinary methods.
Sara will talk about the Cultural Heritage Laboratory and how they work with Guest Colleague projects, and Anna will talk about her experiences as a guest colleague and present the results of the analysis of the Vasa find.
Registration: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/8863281
Last day for registration: 19 February 2024.
The seminar will be in English if required, otherwise in Swedish.