North European Textiles Until AD 1000 - 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 North European Textiles Until AD 1000 write by Lise Bender Jørgensen. This book was released on 1992. North European Textiles Until AD 1000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is firstly an enormous catalogue of all textile finds from prehistoric, Roman and medieval contexts in Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Scandinavia. This data is used to show that the first steps towards organized textile production in northern Europe were taken more than 2,500 years ago, and that the industry that was to centre itself around the English Channel and North Sea coastal areas played an important part in the rise of the Carolingian Empire and Anglo-Saxon England.
The Cambridge History of Western Textiles
The Cambridge History of Western 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 The Cambridge History of Western Textiles write by D. T. Jenkins. This book was released on 2003. The Cambridge History of Western Textiles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sample Text
North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X
North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X - 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 North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X write by Eva B. Andersson Strand. This book was released on 2009-12-11. North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually all areas of Europe represented. The 50 papers from the conference presented here show the vibrance of the study of archaeological textiles today. Examples studied come from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, the Iron Age, Roman, Viking, the Middle Ages and post-Medieval, and from a wide range of countries including Norway, Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and the Netherlands. Modern techniques of analysis and examination are also discussed.
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.
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 2013-10-30. 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.
