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Textile fabrics, Ancient. --- Textile industry. --- Textile industry and fabrics --- Textiles industry --- Manufacturing industries --- Ancient textile fabrics

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Textile fabrics, Ancient --- Ancient textile fabrics --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Methodology

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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 weaving techniques to the (late introduction) of embroidery; the close links between the language of ancient mathematics and weaving; the relationships of iconography to the realities of clothed bodies including a paper on the ground breaking research on the polychromy of ancient statuary; dye recipes and methods of analysis; case studies of garments in Spanish, Viennese and Greek collections which discuss methods of analysis and conservation; analyses of textile tools from across the Mediterranean; discussions of trade and ethnicity to the workshop relations in Roman fulleries. Multiple aspects of the production of textiles and the social meaning of dress are included here to offer the reader an up-to-date account of the state of current research. The volume opens up the range of questions that can now be answered when looking at fragments of textiles and examining written and iconographic images of dressed individuals in a range of media. The volume is part of a pair together with Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress: an interdisciplinary anthology, edited by Mary Harlow, Cécile Michel and Marie-Louise Nosch.

Textile fabrics, Ancient --- Textile fabrics, Roman --- Clothing and dress --- History --- Textile fabrics, Roman. --- Textiles et tissus antiques --- Textiles et tissus romains --- Costume --- Histoire --- Apparel --- Clothes --- Clothing --- Clothing and dress, Primitive --- Dress --- Dressing (Clothing) --- Garments --- Beauty, Personal --- Manners and customs --- Fashion --- Undressing --- Roman textile fabrics --- Ancient textile fabrics --- E-books --- Textile fabrics, Ancient - Greece --- Clothing and dress - Greece - History - To 500 --- Clothing and dress - Rome

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This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, Native American ceremonial bundles, baby swaddling, and contemporary African textiles, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. These context specific, cultural, and technical acts offer a new lens on material culture and its relationship to cultural meaning.

Wrapping cloths --- Material culture --- Textile fabrics --- Textile fabrics, Ancient --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient --- Ancient funeral rites and ceremonies --- Ancient textile fabrics --- Cloth --- Fabrics --- Textile industry and fabrics --- Textiles --- Decorative arts --- Dry-goods --- Weaving --- Textile fibers --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Cloth wrappers --- Wrapping materials

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"This interdisciplinary volume presents a collection of 17 papers which treat the current state of research on two marine resources used in ancient textile manufacture, shellfish purple dye and sea silk. Purple dye is extracted from the glands of the mollusks Hexaplex trunculus, Bolinus Brandaris and Stramonita Haemastoma which through a chemical reaction of photosynthesis produces hues ranging from dark red to bluish purple color. The importance of purple dye since ancient times as a status symbol, a sign of royal and religious power is well documented. Papers include the study of epigraphical and historical sources, practical experiments as well as, highlighting the presence of purple dye in the Mediterranean area in select archaeological data. Less well known is sea silk, a precious fiber derived from the tufts of the pen shell, Pinna nobilis, with which the mollusk anchors itself to the seabed. These tufts once cleaned and bleached take the aspect of golden thread. Only a handful of artisans on Sardinia still have the knowledge of how to work these fibers from the pen shell, a species protected by the EU Habitats Directive, the knowledge having been transmitted orally for generations. Papers include linguistic issues pertaining to terminology, archaeological investigation, the study of the physical and chemical properties of sea silk and the step-by-step practical working of sea silk fibers. The comprehensive multifaceted overview makes this book a valuable resource for anyone interested in ancient textiles, dyes and textile technology"--Publisher description.

Dyes and dyeing --- Textile fabrics, Ancient. --- Purple. --- Colors --- Violet (Color) --- Ancient textile fabrics --- History. --- Textile fabrics, Ancient --- Mollusks --- Purple --- Silk --- Textiles et tissus antiques --- Textile fibers --- History --- Mediterranean Region --- Antiquities. --- Teixits antics --- Tints (Indústria tèxtil) --- Substàncies tintòries --- Tenyit --- Tintura --- Tintures --- Color --- Bàtik --- Plantes tintòries --- Blanqueig --- Colorants --- Tintes Gama (Marca registrada) --- Teixits i tèxtils antics