Ancient Textiles: Production, Crafts, And Society : Proceedings of the First Internatinal Conference on Ancient Textiles, held at Lund, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark,

by Gillis, Carole; Nosch, Marie-louise B.

• ISBN13: 9781842172025
• ISBN10: 1842172026
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-30
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

This volume looks in detail at textiles in the ancient world and is based on a conference held in Denmark and Sweden in March 2003. Section one, Production and Organisation, takes a chronological look through more than four thousand years of history, from Syria in the mid-third millennium BC, to seventeenth-century Germany. Section two, Crafts and Technology, focuses on the relationship between the primary producer (the craftsman) and the secondary receiver (the archaeologist/conservator). The third section, Society, examines the symbolic nature of textiles, and their place within ancient societal groups. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on the universality of textiles and the importance of information exchange between scholars from different disciplines.

Table of Contents

Methodological Introduction	p. 1
The World According to Textiles	p. 7
The Academic Craftsman - a Discussion on Knowledge of Craft in Textile Research	p. 13
Textile Tools and Production during the Viking Age	p. 17
Spinning and Weaving at Tell Mardikh-Ebla (Syria): Some Observations on Spindle-Whorls and Loom-Weights from the Bronze and Iron Ages	p. 26
Textile Industry and Minoan Palaces	p. 36
Flax and Linen Textiles in the Mycenaean Palatial Economy	p. 46
Cloth Production in Late Bronze Age Greece: the Documentary Evidence	p. 50
Washing and Dyeing Installations of the Ancient Mediterranean: towards a Definition from Roman Times back to Minoan Crete	p. 59
The Kingdom of Midas and Royal Cloth Production	p. 64
Textile Production in Proto-historic Italy: from Specialists to Workshops	p. 71
Textiles from the 1st Century CE in Jerusalem - a Preliminary Report	p. 77
Artifacts Related to Preparation of Wool and Textile Processing Found Inside the Terrace Houses of Ephesus, Turkey	p. 81
'Dyeing' in Ancient Italy? Evidence for the purpurarii	p. 87
Local Cloth Production in Medieval Turku, Finland	p. 93
Woolen Textiles in Archaeological Finds and Descriptions in Written Sources of the 14th to 18th Centuries	p. 97
'Translating' Archaeological Textiles	p. 103
The Use of Wool for the Production of Strings, Ropes, Braided Mats, and Similar Fabrics	p. 112
Under Canvas	p. 122
Similarities and Distinctions of Minoan and Mycenaean Textiles	p. 127
Re-considering Alum on the Linear B Tablets	p. 130
Late Roman and Byzantine Linen Tunics in the Louvre Museum	p. 139
Looped-Pile Textiles in the Benaki Museum (Athens)	p. 143
A Medieval Georgian Textile in the Benaki Museum (Athens): the sakkos of the Antiochene Patriarch with Georgian Embroidery	p. 150
The Llangorse Textile: Approaches to Understanding an Early Medieval Masterpiece	p. 158
A Study of Textile Remains from the 5th Century B.C. Discovered in Kalyvia, Attica	p. 163
Ancient Textile Evidence in Soil Structures at the Agora Excavations in Athens, Greece	p. 167
Weaving the Social Fabric	p. 173
Invisible Exports in Aratta: Enmerkar and the Three Tasks	p. 179
Textile Production at Pseira: the Knotted Net	p. 185
Weaving at Akrotiri, Thera. Defining Cloth-making Activities as a Social Process in a Late Bronze Age Aegean Town	p. 190
Can a Textile Tradition Survive? The rebozo in a Changing Society	p. 197
Political Affinities and Economic Fluctuations: the Evidence from Textiles	p. 201
Clothing Patterns as Constructs of the Human Mind: Establishment and Continuity	p. 208
Picturae in textili on Shoulder Busts in Hellenistic Sicily?	p. 215
Spinning in the Roman World: from Everyday Craft to Metaphor of Destiny	p. 220
Wool Work as a Gender Symbol in Ancient Rome. Roman Textiles and Ancient Sources	p. 229
Christian Influences and Symbols of Power in Textiles from Viking Age Denmark. Christian Influence from the Continent	p. 237
First Aid for the Excavation of Archaeological Textiles
Guidelines for the Excavation of Archaeological Textiles	p. 245
Use of a Digital Camera for Documentation of Textiles	p. 254
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