Ancient textiles
Subtitle: 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
By: edited by Carole Gillis and Marie-Louise B. Nosch.
Contributors: Gillis, Carole.; Nosch, Marie-Louise.; Danish National Research Foundation. Centre for Textile Research.
Series: Ancient textile series -- 1
Publisher: Oxbow Books; David Brown Book Co. [distributor]
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781842172025
Subjects: Textile fabrics, Ancient -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Ancient Textiles
Description: 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 section examines the symbolic nature of textiles.
Notes: "The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research."

Includes bibliographical references ([263]-286).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Carole Gillis and Marie-Louise B. Nosch; title: Pt. 1. Introduction to textiles: background, studies and application. Methodological introduction / by John Peter Wild; title: The world according to textiles / by Lise Bender Jørgensen; title: The academic craftsman: a discussion on knowledge of craft in textile research / by Martin Ciszuk; title: Pt. 2. Production and organization.  Textile tools and production during the Viking age / by Eva B. Andersson; title: 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; title: Textile industry and Minoan palaces / by Pietro Militello; title: Flax and linen textiles in the Mycenaean palatial economy / by  Françoise Rougemont; title: Cloth production in late Bronze Age Greece: the documentary evidence / by John T. Killen; title: Washing and dyeing installations of the ancient Mediterranean: towards a definition from Roman times back to Minoan Crete / by Maria Emanuela Alberti; title: The kingdom of Midas and royal cloth production / by  Brendan Burke; title: Textile production in proto-historic Italy: from specialists to workshops / by Margarita Gleba; title: Textiles from the 1st century CE in Jerusalem: a preliminary report / by Orit Shamir; title: Artifacts related to preparation of wool and textile processing found inside the terrace houses of Ephesus, Turkey / by Elisabeth Trinkl; title: 'Dyeing in ancient Italy? Evidence for the purpurarii / by Lisa Hughes; title: Local cloth production in medieval Turku, Finland / by Heini Kirjavainen; title: Woolen textiles in archaeological finds and descriptions in written sources of the 14th to 18th centuries / by Klaus Tidow & Eva Jordan-Fahrbrach; title: Pt. 3. Craft and technology. 'Translating' archaeological textiles / by Lise Ræder Knudsen; title: The use of wool for the production of strings, ropes, braided mats, and similar fabrics / by Hartmuth Waetzoldt; title: Under canvas / by Susan Möller-Wiering; title: Similarities and distinctions of Minoan and Mycenaean textiles / by Edith Trnka; title: Re-considering alum on the linear B tablets / by Richard Firth; title: Late Roman and Byzantine linen tunics in the Louvre museum / by Roberta Cortopassi; title: Looped-pile textiles in the Benaki Museum (Athens) / by Sofia Tsourinaki; title: A medieval Georgian textile in the Benaki Museum (Athens): the sakkos of the Antiochene Patriarch with Georgian embroidery / by Irine Nikoleishvili & Eliso Akhvlediani; title: The Llangorse textile: approaches to understanding an early medieval masterpiece / by Louise Mumford, Heather Prosser & Julie Taylor; title: A study of textile remains from the 5th century BC discovered in Kalyvia, Attica / by Christophe Moulherat & Youlie Spantidaki; title: Ancient textile evidence in soil structures at the Agora excavations in Athens, Greece / by Julie Unruh; title: Pt. 4. Society. Weaving the social fabric / by Elizabeth J.W. Barber; title: Invisable exports in Aratta: Enmerkar and the three tasks / by Irene Good; title: Textile production at Pseira: the knotted net / by Philip P. Betancourt; title: Weaving at Akrotiti, Thera. Defining cloth-making activities as a social process in a late Bronze Age Aegean town / by Iris Tzachili; title: Can a textile tradition survive? The rebozo in a changing society / by Yosi Anaya; title: Political affinities and economic fluctuations: the evidence from textiles / by Nettie K. Adams; title: Clothing patterns as constructs of the human mind: establishment and continuity / by Elizabeth Wincott Heckett; title: Picture in textili on shoulder busts in hellenistic Sicily? / by Antonella Pautasso; title: Spinning in the Roman world: from everyday craft to metaphor of destiny / by Daniela Cottica; title: Wool work as a gender symbol in ancient Rome. Roman textiles and ancient sources / by Lena Larsson Lovén; title: Christian influences and symbols of power in textiles from Viking age Denmark. Christian influence from the continent / by Anne Hedeager Krag; title: Appendix: First aid for the excavation of archaeological textiles. Guidelines for the excavation of archaeological textiles / by Jana Jones ... [et al.]; title: Use of a digital camera for documentation of textiles / by Annemette Buselius Scharff.