Textiles & Weaving, Clothing & Stitchery
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Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature [Hardback]
Marie Louise Nosch (Editor); Mary Harlow (Editor); Giovanni Fanfani (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9781785701603
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 24
Textile imagery is pervasive in classical literature. An awareness of the craft and technology of weaving and spinning, of the production and consumption of clothing items, and of the social and religious significance of garments is key to the ap... .... Learn More -
The Dyer's Handbook: Memoirs of an 18th Century Master Colourist [Hardback]
Dominique Cardon (Author)
£48.00ISBN: 9781785702112
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 26
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 -
Woven Threads [Hardback]
Maria C. Shaw (Editor); Anne. P. Chapin (Editor)
Regular Price: £40.00
Special Price: £14.95
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 -
The Roots of Asian Weaving [Hardback]
Eric Boudot (Author); Chris Buckley (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9781785701443
Published by : Oxbow Books
This ground-breaking book documents the weaving traditions and textiles of one of Asia’s most ethnically diverse areas, placing them in a regional context. Based on more than a decade of first-hand study in the field, the authors record the tradit... .... 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)
Regular Price: £48.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 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)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £9.95
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 -
North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X [Paperback]
Eva B. Andersson Strand (Editor); Margarita Gleba (Editor); Ulla Mannering (Editor); Cherine Munkholt (Editor); Maj Ringgard (Editor)
£38.00ISBN: 9781785701566
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 5
The NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually all areas of Europe represented. The 50 papers from the confe... .... Learn More -
Aspects of the Design, Production and Use of Textiles and Clothing from the Bronze Age to the Early Modern Age: NESAT XII [Hardback]
Karina Gromer (Editor); Frances Pritchard (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9789639911673
Published by : Archaeolingua
The North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT) was founded in 1981 as a discussion forum between various disciplines: textile archaeologists, historians, art historians, natural scientists, conservators and craftspeople. The 12th... .... Learn More -
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 11 [Hardback]
Robin Netherton (Editor); Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781783270026
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The second decade of this acclaimed and popular series begins with a volume that will be essential reading for historians and re-enactors alike. Two papers consider cloth manufacture in the early medieval period: Ingvild ye examin... .... Learn More -
Northern Archaeological Textiles: NESAT VII: Textile Symposium in Edinburgh, 5th-7th May 1999 [Paperback]
Frances Pritchard (Author); John Peter Wild (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781782979784
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this importa... .... Learn More
