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Textile-making in central Tyrrhenian Italy from the final Bronze Age to the Republican Period / Sanna Lipkin.
LIBRA NK8807 .L56 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lipkin, Sanna.
- Series:
- BAR international series ; 2369.
- BAR international series ; 2369
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Textile industry--Italy--Tyrrhenian Coast--History.
- Textile industry.
- History.
- Tyrrhenian Coast (Italy)--Antiquities.
- Tyrrhenian Coast (Italy).
- Italy--Tyrrhenian Coast.
- Physical Description:
- 163 pages : illustrations, map ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Archaeopress, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Aims and challenges
- The database and processing methods
- Theoretical background and methodologies
- Textile archaeological background
- Textile tools in central Tyrrhenian Italy - technical features and results of archaeological experiments. Spindle whorls, spindles and distaffs
- Loom weights
- Tablet weaving tools
- Making of ceramic textile tools
- Conclusion on textile tools
- Textiles and the techniques employed. Spinning threads-fibres and techniques
- Textiles-techniques and finished products
- Conclusion on fibres, threads, textiles and techniques
- The social meaning of textile-making. Textile-making in everyday life and afterlife
- Textile-making as a part of central Tyrrhenian Italian religion
- Conclusions on social meanings
- Economic importance. Wool and linen for textiles
- Special fibres and colourful clothing
- Time aspects reconsidered
- Economic aspects
- The importance of textile-making in central Tyrrhenian Italy-a conclusion
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-158) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781407309569
- 1407309560
- OCLC:
- 795522213
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