Berit Hildebrandt is a researcher at the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity in Östersund, Sweden. She has previously worked at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research at Copenhagen University, Denmark, where she specialised, among other topics, in the study of Greek and Roman texts related to silk and the silk trade in antiquity.

“There is much here to engage the expert but we might hope that others may also learn more about a subject which was far more conspicuous in antiquity than most that occupy archaeologists, and therefore perhaps a more valuable guide to our understanding of people, places and motives.”

Berit Hildebrandt is a researcher at the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity in Östersund, Sweden. She has previously worked at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research at Copenhagen University, Denmark, where she specialised, among other topics, in the study of Greek and Roman texts related to silk and the silk trade in antiquity.

“There is much here to engage the expert but we might hope that others may also learn more about a subject which was far more conspicuous in antiquity than most that occupy archaeologists, and therefore perhaps a more valuable guide to our understanding of people, places and motives.”

Berit Hildebrandt is a researcher at the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity in Östersund, Sweden. She has previously worked at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research at Copenhagen University, Denmark, where she specialised, among other topics, in the study of Greek and Roman texts related to silk and the silk trade in antiquity.

“There is much here to engage the expert but we might hope that others may also learn more about a subject which was far more conspicuous in antiquity than most that occupy archaeologists, and therefore perhaps a more valuable guide to our understanding of people, places and motives.”