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The article reports on systematic investigations done by the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research on wool fibers from prehistoric Danish textiles. Topics include the information on the production, provenance and design of the textiles gained by the investigation, the categorization system used to interpret the processing of the raw wool, and the amount of coarse fibres as the key parameter for the interpretation of the wool preparation.

The article presents the highlights of the two conferences on prehistoric textiles in Istanbul, Turkey on September 13, 2014 and in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 7-8, 2015, including such topics as textile production in Europe and the Mediterranean in 4th-3rd Millennia Before the Common Era (BCE).

Information is provided about papers presented at the 11th North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), which was held in Esslingen, Germany from May 9 to 13, 2011. Topics include the use of virtual technology in the analysis of Neolithic textiles, the use of proteomics in studying wool, and creativity in Bronze Age textiles. The announcement that prehistoric textile expert Lise Bender Jørgensen will step down from the NESAT committee is discussed.

The article discusses the research project on the cloth cultures of prehistoric Europe that ranges from 5500-1200 BC. It states that the classification concept of cloth cultures were reportedly based in the knowledge that all societies had used cloth-type materials and utilized them according to each culture. It notes that an investigation on the nature of textiles and animal skins will be carried out. It says that case studies on cloth cultures will be considered and examined in the project.