Abstract:

The villa dels Antigons, in Reus, was one of the richest and most important agricultural concerns in the territory of the city of Tarraco. The farm was in operation between the second century BC and the seventh century AD. Among the materials found in the excavations there are many instruments made from bone: 443 pin-beaters for weaving, 82 needles for sewing, 29 fine needles without a head, 87 pins and nine spindles. The quantities of pin-beaters and needles found clearly suggest the presence of a significant level of textile production at Els Antigons. We belive that most of them would have been used as pin-beaters in a textile workshop either in vertical warp-weighted looms or double beam looms to untie knots, to order the warp threads when they were compressed, and to pass through the warp threads and push the weft thread up or down.

The Roman