Textiles & Weaving, Clothing & Stitchery

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

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)

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ISBN: 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

Northern Archaeological Textiles: NESAT VII: Textile Symposium in Edinburgh, 5th-7th May 1999 [Paperback]

Frances Pritchard (Author); John Peter Wild (Author)

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ISBN: 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

Textiles and the Medieval Economy: Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th–16th Centuries [Hardback]

Angela Ling Huang (Editor); Carsten Jahnke (Editor)

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ISBN: 9781782976479
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 16
Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evi... .... Learn More

Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology [Hardback]

Mary Harlow (Editor); Cécile Michel (Editor); Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor)

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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 field of textile an... .... Learn More

Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts and Society [Paperback]

Marie-Louise Nosch (Author); C. Gillis (Author)

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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)

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ISBN: 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 products through time... .... Learn More

The Roman Textile Industry and its influence [Paperback]

Penelope Walton Rogers (Author); Lise Bender Jorgensen (Author); Antoinette Rast-Eicher (Author)

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ISBN: 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)

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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 world (Denmark, No... .... Learn More

Silk for the Vikings [Paperback]

Marianne Vedeler (Author)

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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 consumption of silk during ... .... Learn More