TEXTILE CERAMICS

Abstract

All types of the ceramic surface textures classifi ed into a single category of ‘textile ceramics’ were applied
to previously formed vessels, which was treated to obtain a pitted surface. This technique is not related
to the vessel forming technology and represents decoration. Various types of stamps were used within an
individual culture, constituting a single group in terms of their function. The oldest type was crafted with a
toothed die, whereas a natural die which allowed to obtain imprints in the form of rows of arcs, a die with a
wound thread or cord, and a number of other dies were introduced in a later historical period. This decoration
technique was established in the Volosovo culture in the late 3rd Millennium B.C. after the integration of foreign
groups determined on the basis of Fatyanoid or Chirkovsko-Seyminsky ceramics. Textile ceramics was
used by all Pra-Finnish peoples, representing an indicator of the relations stretching across the forest zone of
Eastern Europe.