From the Bronze Age onward, textile production made big progress. Young girls would learn from other women how to spin wool, flax, nettle and hemp fibres into threads, and later to weave fabrics on vertical or horizontal looms. During the Iron Age, clay or stone spindles used for spinning threads of various thicknesses were often put in women’s graves. This shows that at that time textile crafts were a big and important part of a woman’s life.