Ancient textiles : 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

Author(s)

• International Conference on Ancient Textiles (1st : 2003 : Lund, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Gillis, Carole
• Nosch, Marie-Louise
• Danish National Research Foundation. Centre for Textile Research

Bibliographic Information

Ancient textiles : 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

edited by Carole Gillis and Marie-Louise B. Nosch

（Ancient textiles series, 1）

Oxbow Books , David Brown Book [distributor], c2007

Note

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

Bibliography: p. [263]-286

Contents of Works

• 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 Bruselius Scharff

• NCID: BA85437667
• ISBN:
  • 9781842172025
• LCCN: 2008296037
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford,Oakville, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 286 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NK8907
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Textile fabrics, Ancient -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA85437645