The NESAT symposium has grown since the first meeting in 1981, attended by 23 scientists, more than 100 at the tenth meeting, held in Copenhagen in 2008, and in almost all areas of Europe. The paper presented here features 50 works demonstrating the dynamics of the study of archaeological textiles today. The examples given come from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, Iron Age, Roman, Viking, Middle Ages and post-Middle Ages, as well as from a wide variety of countries including Norway, Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and the Netherlands. Current analysis methods are also discussed