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Oxbow Books - Ancient Textiles Series
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Ancient Textiles Series
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Dressing the Past
edited by Margarita Gleba, Cherine Munkholt and Marie-Louise Nosch
Minoan ladies, Scythian warriors, Roman and Sarmatian merchants, prehistoric weavers, gold sheet figures, Vikings, Medieval saints and sinners, Renaissance noblemen, Danish peasants, dressmakers and Hollywood stars appear in the pages of this anthology. This is not necessarily how they dressed in the past, but how the authors of this book think they dressed in the past, and why they think so. No reader of this book will ever look at a ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00
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Ancient Textiles Series
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First Aid for the Excavation of Archaeological Textiles
edited by Carole Gillis and Marie-Louise B Nosch
This small booklet is an important conservation guide. It deals with the special care required in order to deal with these delicate fabrics during their excavation and recording.
It is included as an appendix in Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts and Society
48p, b/w illus (Ancient Textiles Series 2, Oxbow Books 2007)
Paperback. Price GB £3.95
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Ancient Textiles Series
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Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts and Society
edited by Carole Gillis and Marie-Louise B Nosch
An understanding of textiles and the role they played in the past is important for anyone interested in past societies. Textiles served and in fact still do as both functional and symbolic items. The evidence for ancient textiles in Europe is split quite definitely along a north-south divide, with an abundance of actual examples in the north, but precious little in the south, where indirect evidence comes from such things as vase painting and ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00
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