Cloth Seal, Lithuanian, Palanga, Image & Found by Hans Nilssen.
Found in Northern Norway, 23mm.
Mermaid holding amber necklace in right hand, chains from waist and 'ankles' // tower with a figure to left (with the help of other seals)
The images on this seal fit very well with the Lithuanian legend of Jūratė and Kastytis, "The plot greatly varies between the different versions. However, the basic facts remain the same. Goddess (sometimes described as a mermaid or undine) Jūratė (from the noun jūra meaning the sea) lived under the Baltic Sea in a beautiful amber castle. She ruled the sea and all of the sea-life. A young fisherman named Kastytis was disturbing the peace as he was catching a lot of fish. Jūratė decided to punish him and restore the peace, but she fell in love with the handsome young fisherman. They spent some happy times in the castle, but Perkūnas, the thunder-god, found out that the immortal goddess had fallen in love with a mortal man. He became furious and struck the amber castle. It exploded into millions of pieces. Then Jūratė was chained to either the ruins or a rock on the sea-floor by Perkūnas. According to legend, that is why pieces of amber come ashore after a storm on the Baltic Sea." (from Wikipedia).
The circular 'amber necklace in the right hand of the mermaid fits very well with the coat of arms of Palanga in western Lithuania.
Nothing has so far been discovered about the cloth industry in this town.