Ancient textiles : production, crafts and society : Proceedings of the First International Conference on Ancient Textiles, held at Lund, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 19-23, 2003 / edited by Carole Gillis and Marie-Louise B. Nosch.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Gillis, Carole.

Nosch, Marie-Louise

Center for Tekstilforskning (Denmark)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Ancient Textiles (1st : 2003 : Lund, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile fabrics, Ancient--Congresses.

Textile fabrics, Ancient.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 286 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Ancient Textiles

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co. [distributor], [2007]

Summary:

This volume looks in 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.

Contents:

Introduction / Carole Gillis and Marie-Louise B. Nosch

Pt. 1. Introduction to textiles: background, studies and application. Methodological introduction / by John Peter Wild

The world according to textiles / by Lise Bender Jørgensen

The academic craftsman: a discussion on knowledge of craft in textile research / by Martin Ciszuk

Pt. 2. Production and organization. Textile tools and production during the Viking age / by Eva B. Andersson

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

Textile industry and Minoan palaces / by Pietro Militello

Flax and linen textiles in the Mycenaean palatial economy / by Françoise Rougemont

Cloth production in late Bronze Age Greece: the documentary evidence / by John T. Killen

Washing and dyeing installations of the ancient Mediterranean: towards a definition from Roman times back to Minoan Crete / by Maria Emanuela Alberti

The kingdom of Midas and royal cloth production / by Brendan Burke

Textile production in proto-historic Italy: from specialists to workshops / by Margarita Gleba

Textiles from the 1st century CE in Jerusalem: a preliminary report / by Orit Shamir

Artifacts related to preparation of wool and textile processing found inside the terrace houses of Ephesus, Turkey / by Elisabeth Trinkl

'Dyeing in ancient Italy? Evidence for the purpurarii / by Lisa Hughes

Local cloth production in medieval Turku, Finland / by Heini Kirjavainen

Woolen textiles in archaeological finds and descriptions in written sources of the 14th to 18th centuries / by Klaus Tidow & Eva Jordan-Fahrbrach

Pt. 3. Craft and technology. 'Translating' archaeological textiles / by Lise Ræder Knudsen

The use of wool for the production of strings, ropes, braided mats, and similar fabrics / by Hartmuth Waetzoldt

Under canvas / by Susan Möller-Wiering

Similarities and distinctions of Minoan and Mycenaean textiles / by Edith Trnka

Re-considering alum on the linear B tablets / by Richard Firth

Late Roman and Byzantine linen tunics in the Louvre museum / by Roberta Cortopassi

Looped-pile textiles in the Benaki Museum (Athens) / by Sofia Tsourinaki

A medieval Georgian textile in the Benaki Museum (Athens): the sakkos of the Antiochene Patriarch with Georgian embroidery / by Irine Nikoleishvili & Eliso Akhvlediani

The Llangorse textile: approaches to understanding an early medieval masterpiece / by Louise Mumford, Heather Prosser & Julie Taylor

A study of textile remains from the 5th century BC discovered in Kalyvia, Attica / by Christophe Moulherat & Youlie Spantidaki

Ancient textile evidence in soil structures at the Agora excavations in Athens, Greece / by Julie Unruh

Pt. 4. Society. Weaving the social fabric / by Elizabeth J.W. Barber

Invisable exports in Aratta: Enmerkar and the three tasks / by Irene Good

Textile production at Pseira: the knotted net / by Philip P. Betancourt

Weaving at Akrotiti, Thera. Defining cloth-making activities as a social process in a late Bronze Age Aegean town / by Iris Tzachili

Can a textile tradition survive? The rebozo in a changing society / by Yosi Anaya

Political affinities and economic fluctuations: the evidence from textiles / by Nettie K. Adams

Clothing patterns as constructs of the human mind: establishment and continuity / by Elizabeth Wincott Heckett

Picture in textili on shoulder busts in hellenistic Sicily? / by Antonella Pautasso

Spinning in the Roman world: from everyday craft to metaphor of destiny / by Daniela Cottica

Wool work as a gender symbol in ancient Rome. Roman textiles and ancient sources / by Lena Larsson Lovén

Christian influences and symbols of power in textiles from Viking age Denmark. Christian influence from the continent / by Anne Hedeager Krag

Appendix: First aid for the excavation of archaeological textiles. Guidelines for the excavation of archaeological textiles / by Jana Jones ... [et al.]

Use of a digital camera for documentation of textiles / by Annemette Buselius Scharff.

Notes:

"The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1842172026

9781842172025

OCLC:

85804410