Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Textiles and Dress

Harlow Mary

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 18
• Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in t... Lees meer

Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 24
• Textile imagery is pervasive in classical literature. An awareness of the craft and technology of weaving and spinning, of the production and consumpt... Lees meer

Textiles and Textile Production in Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 11
• There is evidence that ever since early prehistory, textiles have always had more than simply a utilitarian function. Textiles express who we are - ou... Lees meer

Exploring Ancient Textiles

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Textiles
• Over the past 30 years, research on archaeological textiles has developed into an important field of scientific study. It has greatly benefited from i... Lees meer

Crafting Textiles

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Textiles
• New research into the techniques of tablet weaving, sprang, braiding, knotting and lace is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume written by le... Lees meer

First Textiles

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 32
• Textile production and the manufacture of clothing was one of the most essential daily activities in prehistory. Textiles were significant objects of ... Lees meer

The Competition of Fibres

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 36
• The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources... Lees meer

Textiles and the Medieval Economy

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 16
• Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and acr... Lees meer

Crafting Minoanisation

Joanne Elizabeth Cutler

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 33
• The mid second millennium BC material record of the southern Aegean shows evidence of strong Cretan influence. This phenomenon has traditionally been ... Lees meer

Making Textiles in Pre-Roman and Roman Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 13
• Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level,... Lees meer

The Dyer's Handbook

Dominique Cardon

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 26
• Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten olive, modest plum, a... Lees meer

Global Textile Encounters

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 20
• Global Textile Encounters is a fascinating journey into three significant textiles and clothing cultures: China, India and Europe. The common thread i... Lees meer

Tools, Textiles and Contexts

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 21
• Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and colla... Lees meer

Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy

Margarita Gleba

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 4
• Older than both ceramics and metallurgy, textile production is a technology which reveals much about prehistoric social and economic development. This... Lees meer

Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 24
• Textile imagery is pervasive in classical literature. An awareness of the craft and technology of weaving and spinning, of the production and consumpt... Lees meer

Iconic Costumes

Ulla Mannering

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 25
• This richly illustrated book presents a selection of the rich and varied iconographic material from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age (AD 400-1050) depic... Lees meer

Woven Threads

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 22
• Woven textiles are produced by nearly all human societies. This volume investigates evidence for patterned textiles (that is, textiles woven with elab... Lees meer

Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress

Harlow Mary

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 19
• Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and in... Lees meer

Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles
• This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colorful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on... Lees meer

Textiles in Motion

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles
• An innovative series of case studies looking at the significance, meaning and social context of costume and textiles used in dance among a variety of ... Lees meer

Tools, Textiles and Contexts

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 21
• Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and colla... Lees meer

The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World

Alexandra Lester-Makin

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 35
• This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embroide... Lees meer

Gods and Garments

Cecilie Brøns

• Hardcover | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 28
• Textiles comprise a vast and wide category of material culture and constitute a crucial part of the ancient economy. Yet, studies of classical antiqui... Lees meer

Ancient Textiles

Marie-Louise Nosch, C Gillis

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Textiles | nr. 1
• 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 st... Lees meer