TY - BOOK ID - 7223514 TI - Greek and Roman textiles and dress AU - Harlow, Mary AU - Nosch, Marie-Louise PY - 2014 VL - 19 SN - 9781782977155 9781782977186 1782977163 178297718X 9781782977162 9781782977179 1782977171 1782977155 9781336208612 1336208619 PB - Oxford Philadelphia DB - UniCat KW - Textile fabrics, Ancient KW - Textile fabrics, Roman KW - Clothing and dress KW - History KW - Textile fabrics, Roman. KW - Textiles et tissus antiques KW - Textiles et tissus romains KW - Costume KW - Histoire KW - Apparel KW - Clothes KW - Clothing KW - Clothing and dress, Primitive KW - Dress KW - Dressing (Clothing) KW - Garments KW - Beauty, Personal KW - Manners and customs KW - Fashion KW - Undressing KW - Roman textile fabrics KW - Ancient textile fabrics KW - E-books KW - Textile fabrics, Ancient - Greece KW - Clothing and dress - Greece - History - To 500 KW - Clothing and dress - Rome UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7223514 AB - 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 incl ER -