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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Oxford : Oakville, CT :
Oxbow Books ; David Brown Book Co. [distributor],
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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.