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Crafting Textiles Tablet Weaving, Sprang, Lace and Other Techniques from the Bronze Age to the Early 17th Century.
New research into the techniques of tablet weaving, sprang, braiding, knotting and lace is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume written by leading specialists from Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and USA. Drawing inspiration from the pioneering work o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Havertown :
Oxbow Books, Limited,
2022.
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| Colección: | Ancient Textiles Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- List of contributors
- In memoriam Peter Collingwood
- Section I Tablet weaving
- Chapter 1 'Tablet weaving is a small byway of textile production...': Bronze and Iron Age tablet bands with stripes, meanders and triangles from the salt mines in Austria
- Chapter 2 The use of weaving tablets in the production of headdresses in Egypt in the Roman and Byzantine periods: A study of a bourrelet from Antinoopolis
- Chapter 3 Evidence of tablet weaving from Viking-age Dublin
- Chapter 4 The so-called 'Palermo bands' and their technique
- Section II Sprang
- Chapter 5 Hairnets with gold tube beads from the Roman Rhineland and their textile technique
- Chapter 6 Sprang hairnets from the necropolis of Fag el-Gamous in the Fayum, Egypt
- Chapter 7 Tight-fitting clothing in antiquity and the Renaissance: Research and experimental reconstruction
- Section III Braiding and lace making
- Chapter 8 Braided strings and Turk's head knots on European secular and religious textiles
- Chapter 9 A unique survival: A woman's fifteenth-century headdress from Lengberg Castle, East Tyrol
- Chapter 10 From narrow four-strand plaits to openwork bobbin-made braids and edgings
- Section IV Spinning
- Chapter 11 The story of twist: Handspinning as a medieval craft.