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  • Fashionable Encounters

    Perspectives and trends in textile and dress in the Early Modern Nordic World

    Edited by Tove Engelhardt Mathiassen, Marie-Louise Nosch, Maj Ringgaard, Kirsten Toftegaard, Mikkel Venborg Pederson ...
    Series Book 14 - Ancient Textiles
    At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades the realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic world (Denmark, Norway, Sweden Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Isles and Greenland) within the time frame AD 1500–1850. This was a period of rapid and far-reaching social, ... Read more

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    The Making of a Masterpiece

    by Alistair Moffat, Andrew Crummy ...
    The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murray's Wimbledon victory in 2013.This book tells the story of this unique undertaking from its original ... Read more

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  • Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern & Aegean Textiles and Dress

    Edited by Mary Harlow, Cécile Michel, Marie-Louise Nosch ...
    Series series Ancient Textiles
    Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconographical and textual evidence within a broad geographical and chronological spectrum. The thirteen ... Read more

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  • The Dyer's Handbook

    Memoirs of an 18th-Century Master Colourist

    by Dominique Cardon ...
    Series Book 26 - Ancient Textiles
    Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten olive, modest plum, agate, rich French gray, gunpowder of the English……..just some of the color names of old fabric to fire the imagination. Memoirs on Dyeing concerns a unique manuscript from the eighteenth century; a dyers memoirs from Languedoc, containing recipes for ... Read more

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  • Silk

    Trade & Exchange along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity

    Edited by Berit Hildebrandt ...
    Series series CTR Ancient textiles series B
    "Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinents along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa were glass, wine, spices, metals like iron, precious stones as well as textile raw materials and fabrics ... Read more

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  • Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress

    An Interdisciplinary Anthology

    Edited by Mary Harlow, Marie-Louise Nosch ...
    Series series Textile Research Series
    Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different types of embellishments of dress from ... Read more

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  • Textiles and the Medieval Economy

    Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th–16th Centuries

    Edited by Angela Ling Huang, Carsten Jahnke ...
    Series Book 16 - Ancient Textiles
    Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of international trade and to examine the physical characteristics of textiles and their ... Read more

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  • Woven Threads

    Patterned Textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age

    Edited by Maria C. Shaw, Anne P. Chapin ...
    Series Book 22 - Ancient Textiles
    Woven textiles are produced by nearly all human societies. This volume investigates evidence for patterned textiles (that is, textiles woven with elaborate designs) that were produced by two early Mediterranean civilizations: the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece, that prospered during the Aegean Bronze Age, c. 3000–1200 BC, contemporary with Pharaonic Egypt. Both could boast ... Read more

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  • Northern Archaeological Textiles

    by Frances Pritchard, John Peter Wild ...
    This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this important and stimulating area of archaeology. From the golden robes of a Roman burial, to the fashionable Viking in Denmark, through to the early modern period ... Read more

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  • Digital Textile Printing

    by Professor Susan Carden ...
    Series series Textiles that Changed the World
    The development of digital textile printing at the end of the twentieth century has had a profound effect on the design, creation, use and understanding of textiles. This new technology - combined with advances in fabric and dye chemistry - has made it possible to produce complex images on fabric comprising millions of colours, quickly, inexpensively and in flexible quantities; a revolution that ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Textile Technology and Design

    From Interior Space to Outer Space

    Edited by Deborah Schneiderman, Alexa Griffith Winton ...
    Textile Technology and Design addresses the critical role of the interior at the intersection of design and technology, with a range of interdisciplinary arguments by a wide range of contributors: from design practitioners to researchers and scholars to aerospace engineers. Chapters examine the way in which textiles and technology – while seemingly distinct – continually inform each other through ... Read more

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  • Dress and Society

    Contributions from Archaeology

    Edited by T. F. Martin, R. Weech ...
    While traditional studies of dress and jewellery have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely a result of the close relationship between dress and three currently popular topics: identity, bodies and material culture. Not only does dress ... Read more

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