The #TeamNun fleece-to-embroidery project continues! The wool thread that we prepared at #ucdexperimentalarchaeology is dyed, dried, and ready to go to Scotland to be tested out by TeamNun St Andrews! Madder (red/brown) and Woad (blue) thread, and Weld (yellow) and Weld + Woad (green) fleece!
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The #TeamNun fleece-to-embroidery project continues! The wool thread that we prepared at #ucdexperimentalarchaeology is dyed, dried, and ready to go to Scotland to be tested out by TeamNun St Andrews! Madder (red/brown) and Woad (blue) thread, and Weld (yellow) and Weld + Woad (green) fleece!
As the #TeamNun fleece-to-embroidery project continued, we dyed a hank of wool using the indigo Anita made with woad. Watching the thread turn from a blackish colour to lovely blue when the dyed wool was squeezed out & exposed to the air was magical! The smell of the boiling dyes was...interesting!
November 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
As the #TeamNun fleece-to-embroidery project continued, we dyed a hank of wool using the indigo Anita made with woad. Watching the thread turn from a blackish colour to lovely blue when the dyed wool was squeezed out & exposed to the air was magical! The smell of the boiling dyes was...interesting!
Our #TeamNun fleece-to-embroidery project continues with the spun thread removed from the spindle and placed in the dyer's madder! Dyer's madder can produce a range of colors from oranges to reds and was one of the most commonly used dyes in the Middle Ages. @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Our #TeamNun fleece-to-embroidery project continues with the spun thread removed from the spindle and placed in the dyer's madder! Dyer's madder can produce a range of colors from oranges to reds and was one of the most commonly used dyes in the Middle Ages. @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
After combing the fleece, we placed it on a distaff to begin the spinning process. The distaff is commonly associated with women in the Middle Ages -- it is really just a long stick with the prepared fleece tied to it. #TeamNun #UCDExperimental Archaeology
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
After combing the fleece, we placed it on a distaff to begin the spinning process. The distaff is commonly associated with women in the Middle Ages -- it is really just a long stick with the prepared fleece tied to it. #TeamNun #UCDExperimental Archaeology
Our work in the UCD Experimental Archaeology Lab began with a lovely pile of cleaned fleece from Valais Blacknose sheep (Image: CC-SA 2.0 alex.ch). #TeamNun #UCDExperimentalArchaeology
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Our work in the UCD Experimental Archaeology Lab began with a lovely pile of cleaned fleece from Valais Blacknose sheep (Image: CC-SA 2.0 alex.ch). #TeamNun #UCDExperimentalArchaeology
Follow along with TeamNun Dublin and TeamNun St Andrews as we use experimental archaeology to see how wool fibre and dyer's madder ended up in ELS215's mouth. We'll go from preparing fleece to embroidering on linen -- exploring the materials and motions of ELS215's fibre artistry.
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Follow along with TeamNun Dublin and TeamNun St Andrews as we use experimental archaeology to see how wool fibre and dyer's madder ended up in ELS215's mouth. We'll go from preparing fleece to embroidering on linen -- exploring the materials and motions of ELS215's fibre artistry.
Also, give @emilyscartoons.bsky.social your money. Invest in your wellbeing. Looking at you #TeamNun teamsters.
September 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Also, give @emilyscartoons.bsky.social your money. Invest in your wellbeing. Looking at you #TeamNun teamsters.
Chose my morning coffee mug in honour of them this morning. I wish I had known their community existed when I lived in Salzburg; I would definitely have visited!
September 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Chose my morning coffee mug in honour of them this morning. I wish I had known their community existed when I lived in Salzburg; I would definitely have visited!
Wolfram Wintzer-Essling (Germany) - specialist in medieval archaeology for LWL-Archäologie für Deutschland. Driving force behind the research excavations at the women's monastery at Dalheim. #TeamNun loves archaeologists who uncover medieval women's religious communities!
August 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Wolfram Wintzer-Essling (Germany) - specialist in medieval archaeology for LWL-Archäologie für Deutschland. Driving force behind the research excavations at the women's monastery at Dalheim. #TeamNun loves archaeologists who uncover medieval women's religious communities!
You can nominate Musica Secreta even if you are not based in the UK! Scroll aaaaallllll the way down to mark your location as “International”.
#Nuntastic #TeamNun #EarlyMusic
#Nuntastic #TeamNun #EarlyMusic
You, too, can nominate Musica Secreta!! It's really easy, and we sure could use an extra £2000 to boost our crowdfunder (of which more soon). Love you all, you can do it! movementforgood.com/index.php?cn...
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July 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
You can nominate Musica Secreta even if you are not based in the UK! Scroll aaaaallllll the way down to mark your location as “International”.
#Nuntastic #TeamNun #EarlyMusic
#Nuntastic #TeamNun #EarlyMusic
Getting great feedback for our #TeamNun exhibit at the St Andrews Wardlaw Museum Research Studio -- now until 30 May. Check out the online version here!
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April 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Getting great feedback for our #TeamNun exhibit at the St Andrews Wardlaw Museum Research Studio -- now until 30 May. Check out the online version here!
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Our History in our Bones exhibit at the St Andrews Wardlaw Museum Research Studio is open! You can visit the online version here:
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#TeamNun #MedievalSky
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April 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Our History in our Bones exhibit at the St Andrews Wardlaw Museum Research Studio is open! You can visit the online version here:
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#TeamNun #MedievalSky
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#TeamNun #MedievalSky
Happy International Women's Day from TeamNun! We will be sharing stories of premodern (and modern!) women at work throughout Women's History Month. Check out our website for updates: teamnun.org
#Medievalsky #Nuntastic #TeamNun
#Medievalsky #Nuntastic #TeamNun
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March 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Happy International Women's Day from TeamNun! We will be sharing stories of premodern (and modern!) women at work throughout Women's History Month. Check out our website for updates: teamnun.org
#Medievalsky #Nuntastic #TeamNun
#Medievalsky #Nuntastic #TeamNun
Happy International Women's Day from TeamNun! We'll be sharing stories of premodern (and modern!) women at work throughout Women's History Month. Stay tuned and check out our project website for updates: teamnun.org
TeamNun | history and archaeology
TeamNun is a project that engages History and Archaeology to uncover the stories of medieval religious women
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March 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Happy International Women's Day from TeamNun! We'll be sharing stories of premodern (and modern!) women at work throughout Women's History Month. Stay tuned and check out our project website for updates: teamnun.org
TeamNun on the road in Italy! Read here about our most recent adventures in the archives of the monastery of Santa Maria della Stella.
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Meet the women of Santa Maria della Stella | Word of Mouth
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January 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
TeamNun on the road in Italy! Read here about our most recent adventures in the archives of the monastery of Santa Maria della Stella.
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Archaeological scientists in the archives, historians in the lab -- the #TeamNun way! We work together to understand the strengths and limitations of our various academic specialties and how they work together!
#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩
January 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Archaeological scientists in the archives, historians in the lab -- the #TeamNun way! We work together to understand the strengths and limitations of our various academic specialties and how they work together!
Poring over monastic admin (so many litigations!)...lovely change from *my* admin (and litigations!)! #TeamNun
#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩
January 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Poring over monastic admin (so many litigations!)...lovely change from *my* admin (and litigations!)! #TeamNun
#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩
January 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#TeamNun on the road in Saluzzo, Italy! Working our way through 6 centuries of a Cistercian women’s monastery. Riffredo/Santa Maria della Stella 🤩
#nuntastic #teamnun - brilliant example of medieval women's voices resurfacing!
Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1
December 22, 2024 at 2:17 PM
#nuntastic #teamnun - brilliant example of medieval women's voices resurfacing!
vor knapp einem Jahr war ich in Hamburg bei DAS! - ist noch bis 21. Dezember in der Mediathek abrufbar! #nuntastic #teamnun: www.ardmediathek.de/video/das/da...
DAS! mit den Autorinnen Eva Schlotheuber und Henrike Lähnemann - hier anschauen
Mit Prof. Henrike Lähnemann und Prof. Eva Schlotheuber gehen wir bei DAS! auf historische Zeitreise ins Mittelalter: Wie haben dort die Menschen gelebt? Wie war ihr Alltag? Was wissen wir über die geh...
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December 8, 2024 at 8:34 PM
vor knapp einem Jahr war ich in Hamburg bei DAS! - ist noch bis 21. Dezember in der Mediathek abrufbar! #nuntastic #teamnun: www.ardmediathek.de/video/das/da...
Welcome to St Andrews, the School of History, and TeamNun, Nora!
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Eleanor (Nora) Farber (Scotland) -- Osteologist and Archaeological Scientist. Newest member of the TeamNun AHRC/UKRI Word of Mouth Project, joining and elevating the level of the St Andrews Lab in January. #TeamNun loves Nora!
December 6, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Welcome to St Andrews, the School of History, and TeamNun, Nora!
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social @standrewshist.bsky.social @teamnun.bsky.social #medielvalsky #archaeology
@uniofstandrews.bsky.social @standrewshist.bsky.social @teamnun.bsky.social #medielvalsky #archaeology