Ancient Textiles
Publisher: Oxbow Books

Ancient Textiles is a long-running and very successful series established in collaboration between Oxbow Books and the Centre for Textile Research (CTR) of Copenhagen University. Initially a vehicle for publishing CTR’s research, in recent years the series has expanded to include submitted titles from a wide range of institutional and independent scholars. Titles cover many aspects of textile and clothing research from detailed analyses of specific cloths, weaves or dyes to discussions of technological developments in textile manufacture and production from prehistory to the medieval period, the use of textiles in specific contexts, and techniques of conservation.

Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842177679
Pub Date: 30 Oct 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col. illus
Description:
Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances and these trade networks were influenced by raw material supply, labour skills, costs, as well as by regional traditions. This was true in the Mediterranean regions and Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman times explores the abundant archaeological and written evidence to understand the typological and geographical diversity of textile commodities.
Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 326
ISBN: 9781782973911
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
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. The twenty-two chapters in the present volume offer the first comprehensive survey of this important material, with special attention to evidence for significant interconnections in textile terminology among languages and cultures, across space and time. For example, the Greek word for a long shirt, khiton , ki-to in Linear B, derives from a Semitic root, ktn .
Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781842174890
Pub Date: 11 Jan 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 8 colour & 82 b/w illustrations
Description:
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. The thirteen intriguing chapters in Textile Production and Consumption in the Ancient Near East describe the developments and changes from household to standardised, industrialised and centralised productions which take place in the region.
RRP: £38.00
War and Worship Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781842174289
Pub Date: 30 Aug 2011
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: 60 b/w & colour illus
Description:
War and Worship concerns textile deposits from the bog sites of Thorsberg in Germany and Nydam, Vimose and Illerup Ådal in Denmark. All four sites are well-known for containing a substantial amount of archaeological materials, particularly weapons, but they also contain, as integral parts of the weapon deposits, a smaller number of preserved textiles, which nevertheless constitute outstanding assemblages. With the exception of Thorsberg, publications dealing particularly with textiles from weapon deposits are almost non-existent.
The Medieval Broadcloth Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781842173817
Pub Date: 19 Nov 2009
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w illus & 42 colour illustrations
Description:
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. It was first produced in Flanders as a luxurious cloth from the 11th century and throughout the medieval period.
Dressing the Past Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 167
ISBN: 9781842172698
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2008
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and col illus t/out
Description:
Minoan ladies, Scythian warriors, Roman and Sarmatian merchants, prehistoric weavers, gold sheet figures, Vikings, Medieval saints and sinners, Renaissance noblemen, Danish peasants, dressmakers and Hollywood stars appear in the pages of this anthology. This is not necessarily how they dressed in the past, but how the authors of this book think they dressed in the past, and why they think so. No reader of this book will ever look at a reconstructed costume in a museum or at a historical festival, or watch a film with a historic theme again without a heightened awareness of how, why, and from what sources, the costumes were reconstructed.
RRP: £35.00