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3,500-Year-Old Bronze Age Loom Found in Spanish Hill Village Rewrites the Story of Mediterranean Weaving

A Spanish-led team writing in Antiquity has identified the floor plan of a fully functional warp-weighted loom inside a burnt-down Bronze Age house at the Cabezo Redondo hill village in Villena, southeast Spain. Forty-nine clay loom weights, found exactly where they fell when a roof collapse around 1500 BC sealed the room, show that the loom was wide enough and finely set enough to weave early twill — a fabric long thought to have arrived in Iberia only in the Iron Age. The discovery, popularised internationally in mid-May, anchors Cabezo Redondo as one of the few Mediterranean sites where the textile economy that powered the later Bronze Age can actually be seen in situ.