Polish, Silesian and Local Cloth Seals from Excavations in Gdańsk, Poland

This article presents a collection of early modern cloth seals revealed during an excavation in Gdańsk (Poland). Our aim is to present a collection of an often-neglected category of artefacts. These are cloth seals from towns and villages located along the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Habsburg Monarchy border. Tracking the import of cloth to Gdańsk (the most important commercial centre on the Baltic Sea at that time) based on the analysis of the origin of textile seals is crucial as it allows us, in some sense, to reconstruct the cloth market of mid-seventeenth century Gdańsk