Making a database of morphological analysing for identification of excavated plant fibers.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23501217
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Cultural property science
Research Institution	Showa Women's University
Principal Investigator	ITO MIKA 昭和女子大学, 研究支援機器センター, 助教 (70276624)
Project Period (FY)	2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Keywords	繊維鑑別
Outline of Final Research Achievements	Excavated textiles reflect the culture, skills and people’s lives of those days. Since most of the fibers have changed in the shapes through partial degradation and/or carbonization, it is difficult to identify the spices of the fibers or guess the area of production by comparison of the shapes with those of the authentic fibers with scanning electron microscope.In this work, the changes of plant fibers from different areas in Japan that were artificially degraded or carbonized, were observed with using scanning electron microscope.The changes in the shapes and sizes were measured and the data were statistically analyzed in order to make a database for identification of excavated plant fibers.