Textiles & Weaving, Clothing & Stitchery
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Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times: People, Places, Identities [Hardback]
Margarita Gleba (Editor); Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke (Editor)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £12.95
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 influenced by raw ... .... 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 survey of this impo... .... 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’ has something for ... .... 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 male and female ... .... Learn More -
Unravelling Textiles: A Handbook for the Preservation of Textile Collections [Paperback]
Foekje Boersma (Author)
Regular Price: £32.50
Special Price: £25.00
ISBN: 9781904982982
Published by : Archetype
This book (first published in the Netherlands as Op de keper beschouwd. Handboek voor het behoud van textielcollecties), sets out to present the basic information necessary for the professional safekeeping of textile collections. Aimed at curato... .... Learn More -
Leatherwork from Qasr Ibrim (Egypt). Part I [Paperback]
Andre J. Veldmeijer (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9789088900969
Published by : Sidestone Press
Throughout its long history, stretching from the 25th Dynasty (c. 752-656 BC) to the Ottoman Period (c. 1500-1811 AD), Qasr Ibrim was one of the most important settlements in Egyptian Nubia. The site has produced an unprecedented wealth of materia... .... Learn More -
Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East: archaeology, epigraphy, iconography [Hardback]
Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor); Henriette Koefoed (Editor); Eva Andersson Strand (Editor)
£38.00ISBN: 9781842174890
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 12
In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of fin... .... Learn More -
Dressing the Dead in Classical Antiquity [Paperback]
Maureen Carroll (Editor); John Peter Wild (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 9781445603001
Published by : Amberley Publishing
Naked we come into the world, but we are extraordinarily unlucky if naked we leave it. It is a human reaction to cover the dead with textiles. This volume presents the results of new and ground-breaking research in the UK and abroad on clothing an... .... Learn More -
Amarna's Leatherwork. Part I [Paperback]
Andre J. Veldmeijer (Author)
Regular Price: £65.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9789088900754
Published by : Sidestone Press
The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or Amarna, ancient Akhetaten) was the short-lived capital built by the controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten, probably the father of the famous Tutankhamun, and abandoned shortly after his death (c. 1336 B... .... Learn More -
War and Worship: Textiles from 3rd to 4th-century AD Weapon Deposits in Denmark and Northern Germany [Hardback]
Susan Möller-Wiering (Author)
£38.00ISBN: 9781842174289
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 9
War and Worship concerns textile deposits from the bog sites of Thorsberg in Germany and Nydam, Vimose and Illerup Ådal in Denmark. All four sites are well-known for containing a substantial amount of archaeological materials, particularly wea... .... Learn More
