Textiles & Weaving, Clothing & Stitchery
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Textile Activity and Cultural Identity in Sicily Between the Final Bronze Age and Archaic Period [Paperback]
Gabriella Longhitano (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789255997
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Volume: 37
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Clothing was an essential part of material culture in ancient societies both as a form of body protection and as house equipment. Besides a practical function, textiles played a crucial role in communicating various aspects of social and personal ... .... Learn More -
Crafting Minoanisation: Textiles, Crafts Production and Social Dynamics in the Bronze Age southern Aegean [Hardback]
Joanne Cutler (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785709661
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Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 33
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The mid second millennium BC material record of the southern Aegean shows evidence of strong Cretan influence. This phenomenon has traditionally been seen in terms of ‘Minoanisation’, but the nature and degree of Cretan influence, and the process/... .... Learn More -
Silk: Trade and Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity [Paperback]
Berit Hildebrandt (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789255515
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 29
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Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinent, along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that fou... .... Learn More -
Iconic Costumes: Scandinavian Late Iron Age Costume Iconography [Paperback]
Ulla Mannering (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789255478
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 25
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This richly illustrated book presents a selection of the rich and varied iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 400-1050) depicting clothed human figures, from an archaeological textile and clothing perspective. The source m... .... Learn More -
The Dyer's Handbook: Memoirs of an 18th Century Master Colourist [Paperback]
Dominique Cardon (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789255492
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 26
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Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten olive, modest plum, agate, rich French gray, gunpowder of the English...these are just some of the colour names of old... .... Learn More -
Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives [Hardback]
Jeffrey D. Lerner (Editor); Yaohua Shi (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789254709
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In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of its s... .... Learn More -
The Competition of Fibres: Early Textile Production in Western Asia, Southeast and Central Europe (10,000–500 BC) [Paperback]
Wolfram Schier (Editor); Susan Pollock (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789254297
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 36
The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles... .... Learn More -
Textiles and Textile Production in Europe: From Prehistory to AD 400 [Paperback]
Margarita Gleba (Editor); Ulla Mannering (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789253429
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Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 11
There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles express who we are - our gender, age, family affiliation, occupation, religion, ethnicity and social, political, econ... .... Learn More -
The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery [Paperback]
Alexandra Lester-Makin (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789251449
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 35
This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embroideries and their context within the British Isles. The book brings together and analyses for the fi... .... Learn More -
Fashioned Selves: Dress and Identity in Antiquity [Paperback]
Megan Cifarelli (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789252545
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The study of dress in antiquity has expanded in the last 20 years, evolving from investigations of costume and ethnicity in ancient art and texts and analyses of terms relating to textiles and their production, to broader studies of the social rol... .... Learn More
