Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times write by Margarita Gleba. This book was released on 2013-10-30. Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances and these trade networks were influenced by raw material supply, labour skills, costs, as well as by regional traditions. This was true in the Mediterranean regions and Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman times explores the abundant archaeological and written evidence to understand the typological and geographical diversity of textile commodities. Beginning in the Iron Age, the volume examines the foundations of the textile trade in Italy and the emergence of specialist textile production in Austria, the impact of new Roman markets on regional traditions and the role that gender played in the production of textiles. Trade networks from far beyond the frontiers of the Empire are traced, whilst the role of specialized merchants dealing in particular types of garment and the influence of Roman collegia on how textiles were produced and distributed are explored. Of these collegia, that of the fullers appears to have been particularly influential at a local level and how cloth was cleaned and treated is examined in detail, using archaeological evidence from Pompeii and provincial contexts to understand the processes behind this area of the textile trade.
Making Textiles in Pre-Roman and Roman Times
Making Textiles in Pre-Roman and Roman Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Textiles in Pre-Roman and Roman Times write by Margarita Gleba. This book was released on 2013. Making Textiles in Pre-Roman and Roman Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy
Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy write by Margarita Gleba. This book was released on 2008-11-05. Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Older than both ceramics and metallurgy, textile production is a technology which reveals much about prehistoric social and economic development. This book examines the archaeological evidence for textile production in Italy from the transition between the Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages until the Roman expansion (1000-400 BCE), and sheds light on both the process of technological development and the emergence of large urban centres with specialised crafts. Margarita Gleba begins with an overview of the prehistoric Appennine peninsula, which featured cultures such as the Villanovans and the Etruscans, and was connected through colonisation and trade with the other parts of the Mediterranean. She then focuses on the textiles themselves: their appearance in written and iconographic sources, the fibres and dyes employed, how they were produced and what they were used for: we learn, for instance, of the linen used in sails and rigging on Etruscan ships, and of the complex looms needed to produce twill. Featuring a comprehensive analysis of textiles remains and textile tools from the period, the book recovers information about funerary ritual, the sexual differentiation of labour (the spinners and weavers were usually women) and the important role the exchange of luxury textiles played in the emergence of an elite. Textile production played a part in ancient Italian society's change from an egalitarian to an aristocratic social structure, and in the emergence of complex urban communities.
The Roman Textile Industry and Its Influence
The Roman Textile Industry and Its Influence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Roman Textile Industry and Its Influence write by Penelope Walton Rogers. This book was released on 2001. The Roman Textile Industry and Its Influence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Textiles were a hugely important Roman industry yet, because of their perishable nature, only fragments remain. These twenty-two essays provide a detailed study of surviving fragments from across the Roman world, from the dry sands of Egypt to the Atlantic coast and the northern frontiers and beyond. The result is a comprehensive reconstruction of both everyday and exotic Roman clothing with information about the influences of fashion and of Roman weaving techniques. Written by friends and colleagues, the contributions are offered as a tribute to John Peter Wild whose own studies of Roman textiles have been the inspiration of so much recent work.
Ancient Textiles
Ancient Textiles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Textiles write by Marie-Louise Nosch. This book was released on 2007-03-10. Ancient Textiles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 still do as both functional and symbolic items. The evidence for ancient textiles in Europe is split quite definitely along a north-south divide, with an abundance of actual examples in the north, but precious little in the south, where indirect evidence comes from such things as vase painting and frescoes. This volume brings together these two schools to look in more 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. A small book on finds First Aid for the Excavation of Archaeological Textiles is included as an Appendix.
