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Ancient textiles : production, craft and society : proceedings of the First International Conference on Ancient Textiles, held at Lund, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 19-23, 2003 /

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 sect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: International Conference on Ancient Textiles Lund, Sweden; Copenhagen, Denmark, Center for Tekstilforskning (Denmark)
Otros Autores: Gillis, Carole (Editor ), Nosch, Marie-Louise (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books ; David Brown Book Co. [distributor], ©2007.
Colección:Ancient textiles series ; 1.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.