Jak było na początku, czyli Adam Nahlik i badania tkanin wykopaliskowych
As it was at the beginning that is Adam Nahlik and research on excavatory textiles

Summary/Abstract: During archaeological excavations connected with the millennium of the christening of Poland and forming the Polish State, many objects made of organic materials including textiles were found. A big collection of such came from Gdańsk. They were discussed and published by an archaeologist J. Kamińska and a technologist of textile industry A. Nahlik. A. Nahlik was born in 1929 in Grzęda near Lvov. After the war, he got his matura in the State School of Technology and Industry in Łódź where he was granted a diploma of technician – textile engineer. Then, in 1953, he finished his studies at the State High Art School where he got a diploma of an artist of textile industry with specialty decorative weaving. As early as during his studies, he became an assistant in the Department of Weaving of the Museum of Art, from which in 1960 present Museum of Weaving was created. Beside the textiles from Gdansk he also investigated big collections of textiles from Wolin, Opole and many others in the 2nd half of the 1950s. He took part in an interesting discussion about seniority of vertical loom over horizontal one. He also worked out research standards on excavatory textiles, which are valid until present days. At the beginning of the 1960s, A. Nahlik started his work with medieval textiles from Nowogród Wielki in Russ and from Russian barrows. The discussion of the first was a basis of his doctor`s dissertation which he presented in 1964 at the University of Lodz. In 1967 he became a vice-manager and in 1976 a director of the Central Museum of Weaving. In this time, he took an interest in medieval silk textiles and a paper devoted to them was to become his dissertation qualifying for assistant-professorship. Unfortunately, illness and premature death in 1980 did not allow him to finish an interesting, well-promising book. One of A. Nahlik`s most important achievements is the proof that the original loom in central Europe was a vertical one. Moreover, he pointed out that the conversion in the medieval weaving from vertical loom to horizontal, foot loom gave bases to formation professional weaving craft. Besides, on the grounds of the research on the quality of wool from Nowogród, he distinguished textiles imported from Western Europe. Not being a historian, he made a lot to know the history of the textile industry and his settlements are still actual. He was an outstanding erudite and, at the same time, a likable and helpful person.

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