Mea van Amstel

Netherlands

Affiliation: Spindle Spinner

Member since: 2025

Topics of Interest: Fibre, Textile

Focus areas: Iron Age, Roman Era, Viking Age, Early Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Newer Era

I have a master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology (University of Amsterdam) and I am interested in archeology. In 2024 I attended the Intensive Textile course at the TRC in Leiden.

I am a ‘textile person’, and use wool, cotton and flax, and other fibers as well. I often prep and dye the fibers myself.

Because I have good practical skills as a spindle spinner I can spin thin yarn on a spindle.
The spindles I use can be modern spindles as well as older ones or spindles based on archeological finds.

The thin yarn I spindle spin I use, f.e. for backstrap weaving or tablet weaving.

I could well think along if any questions about fibers or the use of spindles might arise.

Open for research collaboration in the following topics

Fibre, Textile

Happy to mentor and share my experience in the following skills

Fibre, Textile

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