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The Wooden Bowl
by Robin Wood
This is the first authoritative account of the history of the wooden bowl. It details evidence of the turners craft dating back 4000 years, and looks at the development of lathe technology, as well as the tools and timbers used. The author has been given unprecedented access to study and photograph important collections, many of which have never appeared in print before. The superb photographs show priceless, gold-adorned vessels buried with ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00

Seven Thousand Years of Jewellery
edited by Hugh Tait
From Sumerian court jewellery to 20th-century brooches, this illustrated survey reveals the styles, techniques and materials of jewelley making throughout history. Egyptian necklaces, Celtic torcs and Renaissance pendants, as well as amulets, finger rings and cameos are all described by a team of experts from the British Museum. The new edition features numerous revisions and a completely new section on 1750 to the 1950s 255p with 250 col and ...
Paperback. Price GB £20.00

Ancient and Modern Bone Artefacts from America to Russia
edited by Alexandra Legrand-Pineau and Isabelle Sidera
Through 34 contributions organised around the themes culture, technology and function this book gives prominence to recent developments in bone industry research - whether methodological or theoretical - and to the results of empirical studies on the ...
Paperback. Price GB £53.00

Basketmaking in Ireland
by Joe Hogan
Joe Hogan is a traditional basketmaker and this book is his guide to the history of basketmaking in Ireland and of those who made them. Each of the chapters looks at a different type of basket, including creels, potato baskets, wicker currachs, fishing ...
Paperback. Price GB £20.00

A Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations
by Colin Waters
In true `Call My Bluff' style, who knows what a mell man did, or a duffer, a ripator or a bummer? This dictionary contains almost 4000 old trades, titles and occupations, many of which have disappeared or simply gone out of fashion. A useful reference for ...
Paperback. Price GB £12.99

Oxford Goldsmiths Before 1800
by Ann Natalie Hansen
This is the first study of goldsmiths who were apprenticed and/or worked in the City of Oxford. Manuscripts in both Oxford and London reveal an enormous amount of information regarding not only their work, but also their personal lives, relationships and ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00

Der kreuzfahrerzeitliche Silberschatz aus Resafa-Sergiupolis
by Thilo Ulbert
A treasure of silver vessels was found buried in a pottery vase in excavations at Resafa in Syria in 1982. The treasure comprises a silver gilt censer with niello figured panels, a silver gilt chalice, part of another, a silver gilt paten, all with ...
Hardback. Price GB £70.00

Gold Jewelry: Craft, Style and Meaning from Mycenae to Constantinopolis
edited by Tony Hackens and Rolf Winkes
An exhibition entitled "Craft, Style and Meaning from Mycenae to Constantinopolis was organised in 1983 by graduate art students from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and Brown University, America. The papers in this subsequent publication look ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £19.95, Our Price GB £6.95

Silver
Merriman, Philippa
Silver has been used over the centuries for coinage, for jewellery and adornment, for high-status vessels and plate. It has been given as gifts on special occasions and associated with magic and the moon. Cultures as disparate as the Vikings and the Bedouins of North Africa told stories and myths about silver and the special status of silver-smiths. Phillipa Merriman, herself a professional silversmith, writes entertainingly about the long and ...
Hardback. Price GB £9.99

Archaologie auf Waldeshohen
Verse, Frank
A report on surveys and excavations carried out in the Kalteiche wooded hill-range in Hesse. Features include late Hallstatt barrows, extensive evidence for settlement in the late La Tene period, and evidence for iron smelting in the High Middle Ages. ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00