We are time-travelling this month back to the distant past. It's all about ancient textiles in November's Travels with Textiles: how they can survive thousands of years and what they tell us about human existence and our enduring love of fashion and decoration. We invited Margarita Gleba, one of the world's great experts on textile archaeology and ancient fabrics to join us as our special guest for this episode. She told us how the study of them is helping to change our understanding of the human story and how she sees every single new textile find as a teacher for her.
Margarita is an Associate Professor at the University of Padua in the Department of Archaeology. Her field of study involves thinking about and analysing the earliest kinds of yarns and spinning tools, weaving looms and fabrics. For the past three months, Jo has been a visiting scholar in her Department and in this interview, both Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor talk to Margarita about the joys, and also the difficulties, of textile archaeology.
