…lled staple length (the average of the length of fibres in a sample, https://en.wikipe- dia.org/wiki/Staple_(wool)) can have a positive impact on the spinning techniques. The Bronze Age sheep wool finds from Hallstatt have a staple length of about 5 cm, whereas the Iron Age finds…

…usand Bottoms Figure 1: Le Grand Muveran, Ferdinand Hodler (1912), obtained via Wikimedia Commons Switzerland may picture itself – both literally and figuratively – as a land of heights, but it is, by consequence, also a land of bottoms. Indeed, Switzerland has been inventing and…

…usand Bottoms Figure 1: Le Grand Muveran, Ferdinand Hodler (1912), obtained via Wikimedia Commons Switzerland may picture itself – both literally and figuratively – as a land of heights, but it is, by consequence, also a land of bottoms. Indeed, Switzerland has been inventing and…