Crafting textiles : tablet weaving, sprang, lace and other techniques from the Bronze Age to the early 17th century /

"New research into the techniques of tablet weaving, sprang, braiding, knotting and lace is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume written by leading specialists from Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA. Drawing inspiration from the pioneering w...

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Bibliografske podrobnosti
Drugi avtorji: Pritchard, Frances (Editor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books 2021.
Serija:Ancient textiles series ; 39.
Online dostop:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1vzsw53
Kazalo:
  • Section I. Tablet weaving. 1. 'Tablet weaving is a small byway of textile production...' : Bronze and Iron Age tablet bands with stripes, meanders and triangles from the salt mines in Austria / Karina Grömer ; 2. The use of weaving tablets in the production of headdresses in Egypt in the Roman and Byzantine periods : a study of a bourrelet from Antinoopolis / Claire Gérentet-de-Saluneaux and Fabienne Médard ; 3. Evidence of tablet weaving from Viking-age Dublin / Frances Pritchard ; 4. The so-called 'Palermo bands' and their technique / Regula Schorta
  • Section II. Sprang. 5. Hairnets with gold tube beads from the Roman Rhineland and their textile technique / Petra Linscheid ; 6. Sprang hairnets from the necropolis of Fag el-Gamous in the Fayum, Egypt / Anne Kwaspen and Kristin South ; 7. Tight-fitting clothing in antiquity and the Renaissance : research and experimental reconstruction / Dagmar Drinkler and Carol James
  • Section III. Braiding and lace making. 8. Braided strings and Turk's head knots on European secular and religious textiles / Joy Boutrup ; 9. A unique survival : a woman's fifteenth-century headdress from Lengberg Castle, East Tyrol / Beatrix Nutz, Rachel Case and Carol James ; 10. From narrow four-strand plaits to openwork bobbin-made braids and edgings / Lena Dahrén
  • Section IV. Spinning. 11. The story of twist : handspinning as a Medieval craft / Katrin Kania.