Relocation of the NESAT Library from Esslingen to Wilhelmshaven

Dr. Johanna Banck-Burgess (State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Esslingen) and Christina Peek (NIhK) are pleased that the NESAT Library has now found a permanent home in Wilhelmshaven (Photo: R. Kiepe, NIhK).

A view of the NESAT Library at its new location in Wilhelmshaven (Photo: R. Kiepe, NIhK).

NESAT, the North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles, was founded in 1981 on the initiative of textile specialists Dipl. Ing. Klaus Tidow (former director of the German Textile Museum in Neumünster) and Prof. Dr. Lise Bender Jørgensen (professor emerita of archaeology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim) and is dedicated to the study of textiles found in archaeological contexts.Through close collaboration among numerous textile specialists over the past four decades, a valuable collection of specialized literature — the so-called NESAT Library — which was initially housed at the German Textile Museum in Neumünster and then, for many years, at the Textile Archaeology Department of the Baden-Württemberg State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments in Esslingen, headed by Dr. Johanna Back-Burgess. Last week, the NESAT library was moved to its permanent home at the NIhK. The collection, which also includes a large number of offprints, has now been housed right next to the textile repository, where, among other things, numerous textile artifacts analyzed by Klaus Tidow are preserved. In the future, the NESAT Library will be accessible to all textile specialists.