Cultura tessile a Pompei: i tessuti e gli impianti per la lavorazione della lana (lanariae)

Since 2014 the “Textile culture at Pompeii Project” is investigating a broad range of archaeological contexts and materials such as fabrics, textile imprints, tools and the production contexts in the Vesuvian city. The article focuses on some results concerning the spaces dedicated to the textile production process and the textile materials. Specifically, the significant case-study of a domus-workshop is briefly discussed, i.e. the Domus del Camillo (VII, 12, 23), which is to be interpreted as officina lanaria (in place of the misleading definition of lanifricaria). Moreover, the analysis of carbonized textile fragments offers new insights on the standardization degree of several wool products from the Vesuvian area. This quality of the Pompeian textile manufacturing is confirmed by some comparisons which can be detected on the fabric’s imprints on the human plaster casts of Pompeii.