Textiles & Weaving, Clothing & Stitchery
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Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean [Hardback]
Cecilie Brøns (Editor); Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785706721
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 31
Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant an... .... Learn More -
Treasures from the Sea: Sea Silk and Shellfish Purple Dye in Antiquity [Hardback]
Hedvig Landenius Enegren (Editor); Francesco Meo (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785704352
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 30
This interdisciplinary volume presents a collection of 17 papers which treat the current state of research on two marine resources used in ancient textile manufacture, shellfish purple dye and sea silk. Purple dye is extracted from the glands of t... .... Learn More -
Dress and Society: Contributions from Archaeology [Paperback]
T. F. Martin (Editor); R. Weetch (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785703157
Published by : Oxbow Books
While traditional studies of dress and jewellery have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely... .... Learn More -
Silk: Trade and Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity [Hardback]
Berit Hildebrandt (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785702792
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 29
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 -
Gods and Garments: Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 7th to the 1st Centuries BC [Hardback]
Cecilie Brøns (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785703553
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 28
Textiles comprise a vast and wide category of material culture and constitute a crucial part of the ancient economy. Yet, studies of classical antiquity still often leave out this important category of material culture, partly due to the textiles ... .... Learn More -
The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris: Artisanal Migration Technological Innovation and Gendered Experience [Hardback]
Sharon Farmer (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812248487
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to the late fourteenth, Paris was the only western European town north of the Mediterranean basin to produce luxury silk cloth. What was the nature of the Parisian sil... .... Learn More -
Textile Production in Classical Athens [Hardback]
Stella Spantidaki (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785702525
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 27
Textile technology is older than any other ancient craft and is an instance of cognitive archaeology that provides vital information about society. In ancient Greece, textiles were considered among the principal and most fundamental cultural expre... .... Learn More -
Woven Threads [Hardback]
Maria C. Shaw (Editor); Anne. P. Chapin (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785700583
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 22
Woven textiles are produced by nearly all human societies. This volume investigates evidence for patterned textiles (that is, textiles woven with elaborate designs) that were produced by two early Mediterranean civilisations: the Minoans of Crete ... .... Learn More -
Tools, Textiles and Contexts: Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age [Hardback]
Eva Andersson Strand (Editor); Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor)
£48.00ISBN: 9781842174722
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 21
Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative work offers crucial new perspectives into this field. The new and updated catalogue of a... .... Learn More -
Weben und Gewebe in der Antike / Texts and Textiles in the Ancient World: Materialität – Repräsentation – Episteme – Metapoetik / Materiality – Representation – Episteme – Metapoetics [Hardback]
Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785700620
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 23
Texts and Textiles in the Ancient World: Materiality – Representation – Episteme – Metapoetics presents 12 papers arranged under the four headings of the title which focus on the process of textile manufacture, the weaving process itself, and the ... .... Learn More
