Textiles & Weaving, Clothing & Stitchery
Archaeological textiles and textile production, preservation techniques, styles of dress, and textiles in past economies, societies and cultures.
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Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology [Hardback]
Mary Harlow (Editor); Cécile Michel (Editor); Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor)
£40.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781782977193
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 18
Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research fi... .... Learn More -
Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts and Society [Paperback]
Marie-Louise Nosch (Author); C. Gillis (Author)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781782978305
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 1
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... .... Learn More -
Why Leather?: The Material and Cultural Dimensions of Leather [Paperback]
Susanna Harris (Editor); Andre J. Veldmeijer (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9789088902611
Published by : Sidestone Press
This pioneering volume brings together specialists from contemporary craft and industry and from archaeology to examine both the material properties and the cultural dimensions of leather. The common occurrence of animal skin prod... .... Learn More -
The Roman Textile Industry and its influence [Paperback]
Penelope Walton Rogers (Author); Lise Bender Jorgensen (Author); Antoinette Rast-Eicher (Author)
£26.00ISBN: 9781782977407
Published by : Oxbow Books
Textiles were a hugely important Roman industry yet, because of their perishable nature, only fragments remain. These twenty-two essays provide a detailed study of surviving fragments from across the Roman world, from the dry sands of Egypt to ... .... Learn More -
Fashionable Encounters: Perspectives and trends in textile and dress in the Early Modern Nordic World [Hardback]
Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen (Editor); Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor); Maj Ringgaard (Editor); Kirsten Toftegaard (Editor); Mikkel Venborg Pederson (Editor)
£45.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781782973829
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 14
At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades the realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic w... .... Learn More -
Silk for the Vikings [Paperback]
Marianne Vedeler (Author)
£30.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781782972150
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 15
The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumptio... .... Learn More -
Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times: People, Places, Identities [Hardback]
Margarita Gleba (Editor); Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke (Editor)
£35.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781842177679
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 13
Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances and these trade networks were i... .... Learn More -
Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC [Paperback]
Cécile Michel (Editor); Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor)
£38.00ISBN: 9781782973911
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 8
Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles. The twenty-two chapters in the present volume offer the first comprehensive su... .... Learn More -
Ancient Textiles, Modern Science [Paperback]
Heather Hopkins (Editor)
£36.00ISBN: 9781842176641
Published by : Oxbow Books
The European Textile Forum was founded as an annual meeting for academics, craftspeople, re-enactors and enthusiasts to share their experiences and compare notes. With varied day workshops and evening lectures, the ‘Textilforum’ h... .... Learn More -
Engendering Objects [Paperback]
Anna-Karina Hermkens (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9789088901454
Published by : Sidestone Press
Engendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths that are used as... .... Learn More
