Textiles & Weaving, Clothing & Stitchery
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Dyes in History and Archaeology 20 [Paperback]
Jo Kirby (Author)
Regular Price: £40.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781873132296
Published by : Archetype
In 2001 the 20th Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology was held in Amsterdam, demonstrating the great leaps forward that this field of study has taken over the last thirty years. The majority of the 22 articles found in this journal were ... .... Learn More -
Donald King's Collected Textile Studies [Hardback]
Anna Muthesius (Editor); Stacie M. King (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828661
Published by : Pindar Press
The late Donald King (d. 1998) was the founding father of textile studies in England. His knowledge of the technology and history of textiles of all periods across many lands remains unsurpassed. An erudite and yet modest scholar, he did much to p... .... Learn More -
Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity [Hardback]
Laura Weigert (Author)
Regular Price: £66.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9780801440083
Published by : Cornell University Press
Spanning the backs of choir stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale tapestries of saints lives functioned as both architectural elements and pictorial narratives in the late Middle Ages. In an extensively illustrated ... .... Learn More -
Woven into the Earth: Textile Finds in Norse Greenland [Hardback]
Else Ostergaard (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9788772889351
Published by : Aarhus University Press
One of the century's most spectacular archaeological finds occurred in 1921 -- a year before Howard Carter stumbled upon Tutankhamun's tomb -- when Poul Norlund recovered dozens of garments from a graveyard in the Norse settlement of Herjolfsnaes,... .... Learn More -
Pre-Columbian Woven Treasures in the National Museum of Denmark [Paperback]
Lena Bjerregaard (Author)
£15.50ISBN: 9788789384917
Published by : Aarhus University Press
The tremendous collection of about 500 pre-Columbian textiles held in the National Museum of Denmark are catalogued in this slightly oversized volume. The textiles, which are mainly fragments, date from c.500 BC-1550 AD and were found in tombs in ... .... Learn More -
Flowers of the Yayla [Paperback]
Anthony N. Landreau (Author)
Regular Price: £9.95
Special Price: £2.50
Published by : Textile Museum
A study of weaving by the Yoruk nomads in western Turkey. .... Learn More -
Embroidery from India & Pakistan [Paperback]
Sheila Paine (Author)
Regular Price: £20.99
Special Price: £10.00
