Textiles & Weaving: The Fabric of Ancient Societies
Uncover the rich history of Textiles & Weaving in ancient and medieval cultures. This collection offers a detailed look at the materials, techniques, and social significance of textiles throughout history. Enhance your textile knowledge with related topics in Ancient History and the cultural aspects in Humanities & Culture.
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Tools, Textiles and Contexts
Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age
Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781789259896
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-09-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
416 Pages
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.
Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy
Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9798888570593
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-09-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
296 Pages
Older than both ceramics and metallurgy, textile production is a technology which reveals much about prehistoric social and economic development.
Textiles in Motion
Dress for Dance in the Ancient World
Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781789257984
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-04-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
224 Pages
Explores the significance, role and meaning of textiles and dress in dance, integrating anthropological and sociological dimension into historical analysis of textiles in the ancient world.
The Submerged Site of La Marmotta (Rome, Italy)
Decrypting a Neolithic Society
Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9781789258714
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-04-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
168 Pages
First English publication of a submerged Italian Neolithic lake village with exceptionally preserved remains including spoons, textiles, baskets, ropes, sickles, bows, plant remains and structural wood.
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
Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781789259865
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
360 Pages
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...
Exploring Ancient Textiles
Pushing the Boundaries of Established Methodologies
Price: £36.00
ISBN: 9781789257250
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2022-06-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
176 Pages
This volume constitutes a reflection on the status and devlopment of current analytical methodology and its applicability within the wider textile field.
Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography
Price: £48.00
ISBN: 9781789257212
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2021-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
304 Pages
Collection of papers by leading textile researchers addressing issues related to depictions of dress, textile tools, textile production, as well as textiles for other purposes than dress, such as furnishing textiles, in the ancient Mediterranean region.
Woven Threads
Patterned Textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age
Price: £29.95
ISBN: 9781789257342
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2021-12-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
264 Pages
Investigates evidence for patterned textiles (textiles woven with elaborate designs) that were produced by two early Mediterranean civilizations: the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece.
Tools, Textiles and Contexts
Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age
Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781789259896
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-09-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
416 Pages
Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy
Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9798888570593
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-09-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
296 Pages
Textiles in Motion
Dress for Dance in the Ancient World
Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781789257984
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-04-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
224 Pages
The Submerged Site of La Marmotta (Rome, Italy)
Decrypting a Neolithic Society
Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9781789258714
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-04-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
168 Pages
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
Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781789259865
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
360 Pages
Exploring Ancient Textiles
Pushing the Boundaries of Established Methodologies
Price: £36.00
ISBN: 9781789257250
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2022-06-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
176 Pages
Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography
Price: £48.00
ISBN: 9781789257212
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2021-12-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
304 Pages
Woven Threads
Patterned Textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age
Price: £29.95
ISBN: 9781789257342
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2021-12-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
264 Pages