Textiles, tools and techniques of the 1st millennium AD from Egypt and neighbouring countries
Subtitle: proceedings of the 8th conference of the research group 'Textiles from the Nile Valley' Antwerp, 4-6 October 2013
By: edited by Antoine De Moor, Cäcilia Fluck and Petra Linscheid
Publisher: Lanoo Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tielt, Belgium
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9789401432405
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Textile fabrics; History; Congresses; Textile industry; Ancient Textile fabrics; Antiquities
Other titles: Textiles, tools and techniques of the first milliennium AD from Egypt and neighbouring countries
Notes: "22 lectures were presented, of which 15 are inckuded in thge present volume."--Preface, page 8.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-189) and indexes.

Book in English: eleven conference papersin English, two in French, and one in German.
Table of contents: title: Qarara: une affaire de linceuls / Béatrice Huber; title: The long- and narrow sleeve tunic of the mummy W14 of el-Deir / Fleur Lettellier-Willemin; title: Textiles from burial 213 in Deir el-Banat / Olga V. Orfinskaya, Galina A. Belova, Maya Naunton and Elena G. Tolmacheva; title: Egyptian and Nubian textiles from Qasr el-Yahud, 9th century AD / Orit Shamar; title: Textiles in the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection: past studies and future directions / Gudrun Bühl and Elizabeth Williams; title: Essais de tissage du Musée du Louvre / Dominique Bénazeth and Cécile Lapeyrie; title: A child's cap from the excavations of Atinoopolis in the Museum of Anatomy, Montpellier / Fabienne Médard; title: Pleated dresses from the Museo Egizio of Turin: study of the technical data of fabtics. Preliminary results / Matilda Borla and Cinzia Oliva; title: Radiocarbon dating of Late Roman woollen socks from Egypt / Antoine de Moor, Cäcilia Fluck, Mark Van Strydonck and Mathieu Boudin; title: Radiocarbon dating of the Kolluthos hanging, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels / Mark Van Strydonck, Antoine de Moor, Mathieu Boudin, Chris Verhecken-Lammens and Mieke Van Raemdonck; title: A heddle from Qasr Ibrim / John Peter Wild, Felicity C. Wild and Nettie K. Adams; title: Textile tools in papyri from Roman Egypt / Kerstin Dross-Krüpe; title: Measurements and fitting of Egyptian children's tunics of the 1st millium AD / Anne Kwaspen and Chris Verhecken-Lammens; title: On the interpretation of textile finds woth right-angled or H-shaped tapestry bands / Maciej Sztmaszek; title: Ein vergoldeter Schuh in Heidelberg / Claudia Nauerth.