Bøker i Ancient Textiles Series-serien

In the past, textile production was a key part of all ancient societies. The Ancient Near East stands out in this respect with the overwhelming amount of documentation both in terms of raw materials, line of production, and the distribution of finished products.

Explores textile production, including its socio-cultural development, across prehistoric Europe and the Mediterranean.

Collected papers presenting latest multi-disciplinary approaches to the manufacture, trade in and status of silk and other textiles between Rome and China along the Silk Roads.

Explores the place of wool in the ancient economy of the Near East.

Collected papers presenting latest multi-disciplinary approaches to the manufacture, trade in and status of silk and other textiles between Rome and China along the Silk Roads.

First detailed, mutli-disciplinary analysis of textile technology and production in 5th-4th century classical Athens

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 analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age.

Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles.

Addresses 'Minoanisation' through examining the adoption of Cretan weaving technology throughout the southern Aegean.

War and Worship concerns textile deposits from the bog sites of Thorsberg in Germany and Nydam, Vimose and Illerup Adal in Denmark.

The eight papers presented here provide a useful introduction to medieval broadcloth, and an up-to-date synthesis of current research. The word broadcloth is nowadays used as an overall term for the woven textiles mass-produced and exported all over Europe.

17 contributors examine historic costumes, their sources and their designs.

Presents new research on the extraction and physical and chemical properties of, and the use and social significance of mollusc-extracted purple dyes and sea silk in textiles in Mediterranean prehistory

Describes and discusses through case studies recent advances in the scientific analysis of ancient textiles, including dyeing techniques

Twenty-one papers on the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. Examines the topics of textile production in sanctuaries, the use of textiles as votive offerings and ritual dress using epigraphy, literary sources, iconography and the archaeological material itself.

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. New in paperback.

Presents latest research on the processes of textile manufacture, weaving and the materiality of fabric in prehistory and late Antiquity.

Papers on the study of wool and other fibers in ancient textile production.