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Ancient Textiles

Marie-Louise Nosch,C. Gillis
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Author : Marie-Louise Nosch,C. Gillis
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782974390

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An understanding of textiles and the role they played in the past is important for anyone interested in past societies. Textiles served and in fact still do as both functional and symbolic items. The evidence for ancient textiles in Europe is split quite definitely along a north-south divide, with an abundance of actual examples in the north, but precious little in the south, where indirect evidence comes from such things as vase painting and frescoes. This volume brings together these two schools to look in more detail at textiles in the ancient world, and is based on a conference held in Denmark and Sweden in March 2003. Section one, Production and Organisation takes a chronological look through more than four thousand years of history; from Syria in the mid-third millennium BC, to Seventeenth Century Germany. Section two, Crafts and Technology focuses on the relationship between the primary producer (the craftsman) and the secondary receiver (the archaeologist/conservator). The third section, Society, examines the symbolic nature of textiles, and their place within ancient societal groups. Throughout the book emphasis is placed on the universality of textiles, and the importance of information exchange between scholars from different disciplines. A small book on finds First Aid for the Excavation of Archaeological Textiles is included as an Appendix.

Exploring Ancient Textiles

Alistair Dickey,Margarita Gleba,Sarah Hitchens,Gabriella Longhitano
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Author : Alistair Dickey,Margarita Gleba,Sarah Hitchens,Gabriella Longhitano
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257281

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Exploring Ancient Textiles by Alistair Dickey,Margarita Gleba,Sarah Hitchens,Gabriella Longhitano Pdf

Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study. It has greatly benefited from interdisciplinary approaches, which combine the application of advanced technological knowledge to ethnographic, textual and experimental investigations. In exploring textiles and textile processing (such as production and exchange) in ancient societies, archaeologists with different types and quality of data have shared their knowledge, thus contributing to well-established methodology. In this book, the papers highlight how researchers have been challenged to adapt or modify these traditional and more recently developed analytical methods to enable extraction of comparable data from often recalcitrant assemblages. Furthermore, they have applied new perspectives and approaches to extend the focus on less investigated aspects and artefacts. The chapters embrace a broad geographical and chronological area, ranging from South America and Europe to Africa, and from the 11th millennium BC to the 1st millennium AD. Methodological considerations are explored through the medium of three different themes focusing on tools, textiles and fibres, and culture and identity. This volume constitutes a reflection on the status of current methodology and its applicability within the wider textile field. Moreover, it drives forward the methodological debates around textile research to generate new and stimulating conversations about the future of textile archaeology.

Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Agata Ulanowska,Karina Grömer,Ina Vanden Berghe,Magdalena Öhrman
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Author : Agata Ulanowska,Karina Grömer,Ina Vanden Berghe,Magdalena Öhrman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030921705

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Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Perspective by Agata Ulanowska,Karina Grömer,Ina Vanden Berghe,Magdalena Öhrman Pdf

The diverse developments in textile research of the last decade, along with the increased recognition of the importance of textile studies in adjacent fields, now merit a dedicated, full-length publication entitled “Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Humanities and Natural Sciences Interwoven for our Understanding of Textiles”. With this volume, the authors and the editors wish to illustrate to the current impact of textile archaeology on the scholarly perception of the past (not limited to archaeology alone). The volume presents new insights into the consumption, meaning, use and re-use of textiles and dyes, all of which are topics of growing importance in textile research. As indicated by the title, we demonstrate the continued importance of interdisciplinarity by showcasing several ‘interwoven’ approaches to environmental and archaeological remains, textual and iconographic sources, archaeological experiments and ethnographic data, from a large area covering Europe and the Mediterranean, Near East, Africa and Asia. The chronological span is deliberately wide, including materials dating from c. 6th millennium BCE to c. mid-14th century CE. The volume is organised in four parts that aim to reflect the main areas of the textile research in 2020. After the two introductory chapters (Part I: About this Volume and Textile Research in 2020), follow two chapters referring to dyes and dyeing technology in which analytical and material-based studies are linked to contextual sources (Part II: Interdisciplinarity of Colour: Dye Analyses and Dyeing Technologies). The six chapters of Part III: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textile Tools discuss textiles and textile production starting from the analyses of tools, whether functional or as representative of technological developments or user identity. Archaeological and cultural contexts as well as textile traditions are the main topics of the six chapters in Part IV: Traditions and Contexts: Fibres, Fabrics, Techniques, Uses and Meanings. The two final chapters in Part V: Digital Tools refer to the use of digital tools in textile research, presenting two different case studies.

Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques

Raoul d'. Harcourt,Grace Goldena Denny,Carolyn M. Osborne
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Author : Raoul d'. Harcourt,Grace Goldena Denny,Carolyn M. Osborne
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0486421724

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Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques by Raoul d'. Harcourt,Grace Goldena Denny,Carolyn M. Osborne Pdf

This magnificently illustrated work offers a comprehensive view of the textiles and techniques of pre-Columbian Peru. An introduction discusses yarns, dyes, looms, and raw materials; the first of the two-part text examines weaves, and the second considers such nonwoven materials as braiding, felt, and embroidery.

Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Textiles and Dress

Marie-Louise Nosch,C_cile Michel,Mary Harlow
Prehistoric Ancient Near Eastern Aegean Textiles and Dress Book PDF

Author : Marie-Louise Nosch,C_cile Michel,Mary Harlow
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781782977193

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Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Textiles and Dress by Marie-Louise Nosch,C_cile Michel,Mary Harlow Pdf

Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconographical and textual evidence within a broad geographical and chronological spectrum. The thirteen chapters explore issues, such as the analysis of textile tools, especially spindle whorls, and textile imprints for reconstructing textile production in contexts as different as Neolithic Transylvania, the Early Bronze Age North Aegean and the Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean; the importance of cuneiform clay tablets as a documentary source for both drawing a detailed picture of the administration of a textile industry and for addressing gender issues, such as the construction of masculinity in the Sumerian kingdoms of the 3rd millennium BC; and discussions of royal and priestly costumes and clothing ornaments in the Mesopotamian kingdom of Mari and in Mycenaean culture. Textile terms testify to intensive exchanges between Semitic and Indo-European languages, especially within the terminology of trade goods. The production and consumption of textiles and garments are demonstrated in 2nd millennium Hittite Anatolia; from 1st millennium BC Assyria, a cross-disciplinary approach combines texts, realia and iconography to produce a systematic study of golden dress decorations; and finally, the important discussion of fibres, flax and wool, in written and archaeological sources is evidence for delineating the economy of linen and the strong symbolic value of fibre types in 1st millennium Babylonia and the Southern Levant. The volume is part of a pair together with Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology edited by Mary Harlow and Marie-Louise Nosch.

Ancient Textiles, Modern Science

Heather Jane Hopkins
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Author : Heather Jane Hopkins
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1842176641

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Ancient Textiles, Modern Science by Heather Jane Hopkins Pdf

This book is the publication of a series of lectures and experiments that were undertaken at the First and Second European Textile Forum in 2009 and 2010. Each had a new approach, exploring a question of textile manufacture in a scientific way, revealing answers and outcomes that were unavailable before.

Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean

Cecilie Brøns,Marie-Louise Nosch
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Author : Cecilie Brøns,Marie-Louise Nosch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785706752

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Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean by Cecilie Brøns,Marie-Louise Nosch Pdf

Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. Recent scholarship has illustrated how textiles played a large and very important role in the ancient Mediterranean sanctuaries. In Greece, the so-called temple inventories testify to the use of textiles as votive offerings, in particular to female divinities. Furthermore, in several cults, textiles were used to dress the images of different deities. Textiles played an important role in the dress of priests and priestesses, who often wore specific garments designated by particular colours. Clothing regulations in order to enter or participate in certain rituals from several Greek sanctuaries also testify to the importance of dress of ordinary visitors. Textiles were used for the furnishings of the temples, for example in the form of curtains, draperies, wall-hangings, sun-shields, and carpets. This illustrates how the sanctuaries were potential major consumers of textiles; nevertheless, this particular topic has so far not received much attention in modern scholarship. Furthermore, our knowledge of where the textiles consumed in the sanctuaries came from, where they were produced, and by who is extremely limited. Textiles and Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean examines the topics of textile production in sanctuaries, the use of textiles as votive offerings and ritual dress using epigraphy, literary sources, iconography and the archaeological material itself.

Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress

Mary Harlow,Marie-Louise Nosch
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Author : Mary Harlow,Marie-Louise Nosch
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781782977186

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Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress by Mary Harlow,Marie-Louise Nosch Pdf

Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different types of embellishments of dress from weaving techniques to the (late introduction) of embroidery; the close links between the language of ancient mathematics and weaving; the relationships of iconography to the realities of clothed bodies including a paper on the ground breaking research on the polychromy of ancient statuary; dye recipes and methods of analysis; case studies of garments in Spanish, Viennese and Greek collections which discuss methods of analysis and conservation; analyses of textile tools from across the Mediterranean; discussions of trade and ethnicity to the workshop relations in Roman fulleries. Multiple aspects of the production of textiles and the social meaning of dress are included here to offer the reader an up-to-date account of the state of current research. The volume opens up the range of questions that can now be answered when looking at fragments of textiles and examining written and iconographic images of dressed individuals in a range of media. The volume is part of a pair together with Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress: an interdisciplinary anthology edited by Mary Harlow, C_cile Michel and Marie-Louise Nosch

Prehistoric Textiles

E. J.W. Barber
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Author : E. J.W. Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 069100224X

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Prehistoric Textiles by E. J.W. Barber Pdf

This monograph attempts to revise present ideas of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East. Using linguistic techniques as well as methods from palaeobiology, it demonstrates that spinning and pattern-weaving existed far earlier than has been supposed.

Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East

Catherine Breniquet,CŽcile Michel
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Author : Catherine Breniquet,CŽcile Michel
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782976349

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Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East by Catherine Breniquet,CŽcile Michel Pdf

The history of the Ancient Near East covers a huge chronological frame, from the first pictographic texts of the late 4th millennium to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333 BC. During these millennia, different societies developed in a changing landscape where sheep (and their wool) always played an important economic role. The 22 papers presented here explore the place of wool in the ancient economy of the region, where large-scale textile production began during the second half of the 3rd millennium. By placing emphasis on the development of multi-disciplinary methodologies, experimentation and use of archaeological evidence combined with ancient textual sources, the wide-ranging contributions explore a number of key themes. These include: the first uses of wool in textile manufacture and organization of weaving; trade and exchange; the role of wool in institutionalized economies; and the reconstruction of the processes that led to this first form of industry in Antiquity. The numerous archaeological and written sources provide an enormous amount of data on wool, textile crafts, and clothing and these inter-disciplinary studies are beginning to present a comprehensive picture of the economic and cultural impact of woollen textiles and textile manufacturing on formative ancient societies.

Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East

Marie-Louise Nosch,Henriette Koefoed,Eva Andersson Strand
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Author : Marie-Louise Nosch,Henriette Koefoed,Eva Andersson Strand
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782971115

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Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East by Marie-Louise Nosch,Henriette Koefoed,Eva Andersson Strand Pdf

In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products. The thirteen intriguing chapters in Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East describe the developments and changes from household to standardised, industrialised and centralised productions which take place in the region. They discuss the economic, social and cultural impact of textiles on ancient society through the application of textile tool studies, experimental testing, context studies and epigraphical as well as iconographical sources. Together they demonstrate that the textile industries, production, technology, consumption and innovations are crucial to, and therefore provide an in-depth view of ancient societies during this period. Geographically the contributions cover Anatolia, the Levant, Syria, the Assyrian heartland, Sumer, and Egypt.

The Fabric of Civilization

Virginia Postrel
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Author : Virginia Postrel
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541617612

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The Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel Pdf

From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide. The story of humanity is the story of textiles -- as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo's David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code. Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world's most influential commodity.

Exploring Ancient Textiles

Alistair Dickey,Margarita Gleba,Sarah Hitchens,Gabriella Longhitano
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Author : Alistair Dickey,Margarita Gleba,Sarah Hitchens,Gabriella Longhitano
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257267

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Exploring Ancient Textiles by Alistair Dickey,Margarita Gleba,Sarah Hitchens,Gabriella Longhitano Pdf

Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study. It has greatly benefited from interdisciplinary approaches, which combine the application of advanced technological knowledge to ethnographic, textual and experimental investigations. In exploring textiles and textile processing (such as production and exchange) in ancient societies, archaeologists with different types and quality of data have shared their knowledge, thus contributing to well-established methodology. In this book, the papers highlight how researchers have been challenged to adapt or modify these traditional and more recently developed analytical methods to enable extraction of comparable data from often recalcitrant assemblages. Furthermore, they have applied new perspectives and approaches to extend the focus on less investigated aspects and artefacts. The chapters embrace a broad geographical and chronological area, ranging from South America and Europe to Africa, and from the 11th millennium BC to the 1st millennium AD. Methodological considerations are explored through the medium of three different themes focusing on tools, textiles and fibres, and culture and identity. This volume constitutes a reflection on the status of current methodology and its applicability within the wider textile field. Moreover, it drives forward the methodological debates around textile research to generate new and stimulating conversations about the future of textile archaeology.

Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Textiles and Dress

Marie-Louise Nosch,C_cile Michel,Mary Harlow
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Author : Marie-Louise Nosch,C_cile Michel,Mary Harlow
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781782977209

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Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Textiles and Dress by Marie-Louise Nosch,C_cile Michel,Mary Harlow Pdf

Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconographical and textual evidence within a broad geographical and chronological spectrum. The thirteen chapters explore issues, such as the analysis of textile tools, especially spindle whorls, and textile imprints for reconstructing textile production in contexts as different as Neolithic Transylvania, the Early Bronze Age North Aegean and the Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean; the importance of cuneiform clay tablets as a documentary source for both drawing a detailed picture of the administration of a textile industry and for addressing gender issues, such as the construction of masculinity in the Sumerian kingdoms of the 3rd millennium BC; and discussions of royal and priestly costumes and clothing ornaments in the Mesopotamian kingdom of Mari and in Mycenaean culture. Textile terms testify to intensive exchanges between Semitic and Indo-European languages, especially within the terminology of trade goods. The production and consumption of textiles and garments are demonstrated in 2nd millennium Hittite Anatolia; from 1st millennium BC Assyria, a cross-disciplinary approach combines texts, realia and iconography to produce a systematic study of golden dress decorations; and finally, the important discussion of fibres, flax and wool, in written and archaeological sources is evidence for delineating the economy of linen and the strong symbolic value of fibre types in 1st millennium Babylonia and the Southern Levant. The volume is part of a pair together with Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology edited by Mary Harlow and Marie-Louise Nosch.

Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece

Mireille M. Lee
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Author : Mireille M. Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107055360

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Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece by Mireille M. Lee Pdf

This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient Greece. Whereas many scholars have focused on individual aspects of ancient Greek dress, from the perspectives of literary, visual, and archaeological sources, this volume synthesizes the diverse evidence and offers fresh insights into this essential aspect of ancient society.