Git Skoglund

Biographic Data

ID938441
NAMEGit Skoglund
GIVEN NAMESGit
FAMILY NAMESkoglund
SIGNATURESKOGLUND G
AFFILIATIONSTwitter (United States)
ORCID0000-0002-0045-5967
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • A Heritage “Nettle” Sheet Reveals the First Physical Evidence of a Hemp/Hop Textile from Denmark

    Git Skoglund, Jenni A Suomela et al.ARTICLETEXTILE2025

  • Development of Lurik Weaving Motive Designs with Coloured Weft Threads in Indonesia

    Open AccessMulyanto Mulyanto, Desy Nurcahyanti et al.ARTICLEInternational Society for the…2024

    Lurik woven cloth is a traditional Indonesian textile. Its very existence is the primary potential for the national clothing in Indonesia. The word 'lurik' is derived from the type of motif generated by weft and warp threads, producing classic vertical or horizontal stripes. The growing lurik industry today produces an extensive variety of threads for specific uses, including polyester threads for fabrics and knitted products and nylon threads fo…

  • Traditional Fine Homespun Hemp Linen Fabrics

    Git SkoglundARTICLETEXTILE2023

    Traditional European and East Asian cultures have for centuries grown hemp (Cannabis) to make homespun yarn and weave linens (plain weave fabrics) used both in ritual and secular contexts. Even so, few academic sources have discussed fine hemp linen fabrics and how they look. In publications concerning textile plants and the fabrics made from them, when hemp is mentioned, it is usually relegated to the weaving of coarse fabrics used by the poor l…

  • Identification of Blended Hemp Textiles from the Middle Ages to the 20 th Century

    Git SkoglundARTICLETEXTILE2023

    Historical research about textiles made from bast fibers has progressed in recent years broadening our perspectives of people’s needs for textile raw materials. Despite this, analyses of textiles made of mixed fibers from a variety of plants have not received sufficient attention. Textiles were often made of blends of different bast plant fibers, which was during historical time common but is rarely mentioned in research, compounding the difficul…

  • Traditional manufacture of hemp and hop textiles

    Open AccessGit SkoglundARTICLEJournal of Anthropology and…2021

    Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology is a peer-reviewed international journal, which publishes original papers promoting theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in the discipline of socio-cultural anthropology

  • First experimental evidence of hop fibres in historical textiles

    Open AccessGit Skoglund, Bodil Holst et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2020Cited by: 2References: 10

    Hop (Humulus lupulus) has been used in Scandinavia since at least the ninth century AD, as documented through archaeological findings and written, historical records. The written records are mainly focused on the use of cone-shaped flowers for beer brewing and medical purposes, but there are also records, for example, from the famous Swedish botanist Carl von Linne, who mentions the use of hop fibres for textile production. However, until now no …

  • Viking and Early Middle Ages Northern Scandinavian Textiles Proven to be made with Hemp

    Open AccessGit Skoglund, Margareta Nockert et al.ARTICLEScientific Reports2013

    Nowadays most plant textiles used for clothing and household are made of cotton and viscose. Before the 19th century however, plant textiles were mainly made from locally available raw materials, in Scandinavia these were: nettle, hemp and flax. It is generally believed that in Viking and early Middle Ages Scandinavia hemp was used only for coarse textiles (i.e. rope and sailcloth). Here we present an investigation of 10 Scandinavian plant fibre …