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Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology

English · Hardback

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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. This volume is part of a pair together withPrehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress: an interdisciplinary anthology edited by Mary Harlow, C¿le Michel and Marie-Louise Nosch, Isbn 9781782977193

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Assisted by Mary Harlow (Editor), Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor)
Publisher Paperbackshop Uk Import
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 28.02.2015
 
EAN 9781782977155
ISBN 978-1-78297-715-5
No. of pages 320
Dimensions 195 mm x 254 mm x 38 mm
Weight 1409 g
Series Ancient Textiles
Subject Guides > Hobby, home > Creative design

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