Small fragments of textiles, or more often mineralised traces of them, are quite often recovered from Iron Age tombs, yet unique for protohistoric Italy are Verucchio almost intact clothes. It is thus possible to identify the raw material used for spinning and dyeing, and to appreciate the design and the weaving techniques.

The images painted on Etruscan tombs and other iconographic documents of the Etruscan-Italic world testify the quite generalised use, for both men and women, of tunics and cloaks. Etruscans wore a semicircular mantle called "tebenna", preceding the Roman toga. With a semicircular design and a distinctive edge, the mantle was manufactured in woollen thread with two ends twisted in an alternated style and processed in a diagonal pattern showing a "pied-de-poule" motif.

In Verucchio different types of textiles are known, some of which only through calcinated remains frm the funeral pile. Wool is the most commonly employed fibre though vegetable ones were also used. Pigments tto were vegetable and analises are being made to discover from what plants they were obtained and in what colors.