Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 286 pages)
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illustrations (some color), maps
ISBN:
9781782974390
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1782974393
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9781782974413
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1782974415
Series Statement:
Ancient textiles series 1
Content:
Presents a look at textiles in the ancient world, based on a conference held in Denmark and Sweden in March 2003. Section one of this volume takes a chronological look through the history. Section two focuses on the relationship between the primary producer and the secondary receiver. The third section examines the symbolic nature of textiles
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Introduction / Carole Gillis and Marie-Louise B. Nosch -- pt. 1. Introduction to textiles: background, studies and application. Methodological introduction / by John Peter Wild -- The world according to textiles / by Lise Bender Jørgensen -- The academic craftsman: a discussion on knowledge of craft in textile research / by Martin Ciszuk -- pt. 2. Production and organization. Textile tools and production during the Viking age / by Eva B. Andersson -- Spinning and weaving at Tell Mardikh-Ebla (Syria): some observations on spindle-whorls and loom-weights from the Bronze and Iron Ages / by Luca Peyronel -- Textile industry and Minoan palaces / by Pietro Militello -- Flax and linen textiles in the Mycenaean palatial economy / by Françoise Rougemont -- Cloth production in late Bronze Age Greece: the documentary evidence / by John T. Killen -- Washing and dyeing installations of the ancient Mediterranean: towards a definition from Roman times back to Minoan Crete / by Maria Emanuela Alberti -- The kingdom of Midas and royal cloth production / by Brendan Burke -- Textile production in proto-historic Italy: from specialists to workshops / by Margarita Gleba -- Textiles from the 1st century CE in Jerusalem: a preliminary report / by Orit Shamir -- Artifacts related to preparation of wool and textile processing found inside the terrace houses of Ephesus, Turkey / by Elisabeth Trinkl -- 'Dyeing in ancient Italy? Evidence for the purpurarii / by Lisa Hughes -- Local cloth production in medieval Turku, Finland / by Heini Kirjavainen -- Woolen textiles in archaeological finds and descriptions in written sources of the 14th to 18th centuries / by Klaus Tidow & Eva Jordan-Fahrbrach -- pt. 3. Craft and technology. 'Translating' archaeological textiles / by Lise Ræder Knudsen -- The use of wool for the production of strings, ropes, braided mats, and similar fabrics / by Hartmuth Waetzoldt -- Under canvas / by Susan Möller-Wiering -- Similarities and distinctions of Minoan and Mycenaean textiles / by Edith Trnka -- Re-considering alum on the linear B tablets / by Richard Firth -- Late Roman and Byzantine linen tunics in the Louvre museum / by Roberta Cortopassi -- Looped-pile textiles in the Benaki Museum (Athens) / by Sofia Tsourinaki -- A medieval Georgian textile in the Benaki Museum (Athens): the sakkos of the Antiochene Patriarch with Georgian embroidery / by Irine Nikoleishvili & Eliso Akhvlediani -- The Llangorse textile: approaches to understanding an early medieval masterpiece / by Louise Mumford, Heather Prosser & Julie Taylor -- A study of textile remains from the 5th century BC discovered in Kalyvia, Attica / by Christophe Moulherat & Youlie Spantidaki -- Ancient textile evidence in soil structures at the Agora excavations in Athens, Greece / by Julie Unruh -- pt. 4. Society. Weaving the social fabric / by Elizabeth J.W. Barber -- Invisable exports in Aratta: Enmerkar and the three tasks / by Irene Good -- Textile production at Pseira: the knotted net / by Philip P. Betancourt -- Weaving at Akrotiti, Thera. Defining cloth-making activities as a social process in a late Bronze Age Aegean town / by Iris Tzachili -- Can a textile tradition survive? The rebozo in a changing society / by Yosi Anaya -- Political affinities and economic fluctuations: the evidence from textiles / by Nettie K. Adams -- Clothing patterns as constructs of the human mind: establishment and continuity / by Elizabeth Wincott Heckett -- Picture in textili on shoulder busts in hellenistic Sicily? / by Antonella Pautasso -- Spinning in the Roman world: from everyday craft to metaphor of destiny / by Daniela Cottica -- Wool work as a gender symbol in ancient Rome. Roman textiles and ancient sources / by Lena Larsson Lovén -- Christian influences and symbols of power in textiles from Viking age Denmark. Christian influence from the continent / by Anne Hedeager Krag -- Appendix: First aid for the excavation of archaeological textiles. Guidelines for the excavation of archaeological textiles / by Jana Jones [and others] -- Use of a digital camera for documentation of textiles / by Annemette Buselius Scharff.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe International Conference on Ancient Textiles (1st : 2003 : Lund, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark) Ancient textiles Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co. [distributor], ©2007
Language:
English
Keywords:
Congress
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