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The
Cambridge History of Western Textiles
Edited By: David Jenkins
Published By: Cambridge University Press
Boxed Set/Slip Case/Casebound
2 Hardback Books; 1400 Pages; 280 Half-Tones; 40 Colour Plates
ISBN:0521341078
Published: September 2003 |
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Book Review, by David
Jenkins (Editor)
Book Description
Essential in the everyday lives of all societies for providing protection
and warmth, textiles also fulfill social, cultural, military, legal,
and symbolic functions and have played a key role in the economic
activity of societies from ancient times. |
This magnificent two-volume
study brings together the leading experts on textiles from eight
countries, ensuring authoritative coverage of the production and
uses of textiles in western societies from the earliest times to
the present day. With contributions from archaeologists, economic
and social historians, historians of fashion and the history of
dress, and museum curators, no other book offers the breadth of
coverage of this one, in terms of time period, subject matter, or
approach. The book's range and accessibility will ensure that it
is a key reference for specialists and non-specialists alike. David
Jenkins is Senior Lecturer in Economic History in the Department
of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York. He is
also Governor and Company Secretary of the Pasold Research Fund,
which promotes research and publication in the history of textiles
in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jenkins has
a special interest in the wool textile industry, where his major
contribution is (with the late K.G. Ponting) The British Wool Textile
Industry, 1880-1914 (Ashgate Publishing Company, 1982). For several
years Jenkins was a member of Council and Honorary Secretary of
the Economic History Society and is a member of the Editorial Board
of Textile History. |
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Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
ISBN 1-84383-081-7
24.1 x 15.9 cm
Hardback
224pp
First published 2004
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Revised and Enlarged Edition
Gale R. Owen-Crocker When it first came out in 1986, Gale Owen-Crocker's
book was a milestone in costume studies, a foundation on which
much work has subsequently been based. Nearly twenty years later,
there is more to be said, and this updated edition is long overdue.
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An encyclopaedic study
of English dress from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, it draws
evidence from archaeology, text and art [manuscripts, ivories, metalwork,
stone sculpture, mosaics], and also from re-enactors' experience.
It examines archaeological textiles, cloth production and the significance
of imported cloth and foreign fashions. Dress is discussed as a
marker of gender, ethnicity, status and social role - in the context
of a pagan burial, dress for holy orders, bequests of clothing,
commissioning a kingly wardrobe, and much else - and surviving dress
fasteners and accessories are examined with regard to type and to
geographical/chronological distribution. There are colour reconstructions
of early Anglo-Saxon dress and a cutting pattern for a gown from
the Bayeux tapestry; Old English garment names are discussed, and
there is a glossary of costume and other relevant terms.
GALE OWEN-CROCKER is Senior Lecturer in English
Language, University of Manchester. She has a special interest in
dress throughout the medieval period - she advises on dress entries
to the Toronto Old English Dictionary and has consulted for many
museums and television companies. She is co-editor of the new journal
Medieval Clothing and Textiles. Generously illustrated with 25 plates,
12 in colour, and 140 drawings.
Contents
1 Introduction to the revised edition
2 A Historical Framework
3 Women's costume in the fifth and sixth centuries
4 Men's costume in the fifth and sixth centuries
5 Women's costume from the seventh to the ninth centuries
6 Men's costume from the seventh to the ninth centuries
7 Women's costume in the tenth and eleventh centuries
8 Men's costume in the tenth and eleventh centuries
9 Textile and textile production
10 The significance of dress
11 Appendix A: Old English garment-names
12 Appendix B: A possible cutting plan for an eleventh-century gown
12 colour illustrations
13 b/w illustrations
408 pages
Size: 24 x 17 cm
ISBN: 1843830817
Binding: Hardback
First published: 2004
Imprint: Boydell Press
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Woven
Into The Earth: Textile Finds in Norse Greenland
Author: Else Østergård
296 p., ill., 2004
Hardbound
ISBN 87 7288 935 7
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
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Contents
One of the century's most spectacular archaeological finds occurred
in 1921 when Poul Nørlund recovered dozens of garments from
a graveyard in the Norse settlement of Herjolfsnæs, Greenland. |
Preserved intact
for centuries by the permafrost, these mediaeval garments display
remarkable similarities to western European costumes of the time.
Previously, such costumes were known only from contemporary illustrations,
and the Greenland finds provided the world with a close look at
how ordinary Europeans dressed in the Middle Ages.
Fortunately for Nørlund's team, wood has always been extremely
scarce in Greenland, and instead of caskets, many of the bodies
were found swaddled in multiple layers of cast-off clothing.
Eighty years of technical advances and subsequent excavations have
greatly added to our understanding of the Herjolfsnæs discoveries.
In Woven into the Earth Else Østergård recounts the
dramatic story of Nørlund's excavation in the context of
other Norse textile finds in Greenland. She describes what the finds
tell us about the materials and methods used in making the clothes.
The weaving and sewing techniques detailed here are surprisingly
sophisticated, and one can only admire the talent of the women who
employed them, especially considering the harsh conditions they
worked under. |
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North European
Textiles until AD 1000
Author: Lise Bender Jorgensen
285p., 206 figs, maps, photos and illus.
1992
Hardbound ISBN 87 7288 416 9
Publisher: Aarhus University Press |
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Contents
This book is firstly an enormous catalogue of all textile finds
from prehistoric, Roman and medieval contexts in Great Britain,
Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Scandinavia. This
data is used to show that the first steps towards organized textile
production in northern Europe were taken more than 2,500 years ago.
The industry that was to centre itself around the English Channel
and North Sea coastal areas played an important part in the rise
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THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY:
EMBROIDERERS STORY
By Jan Messent
First Published in 1999 112pp 8-1/4” X 11-3/4”
(209mm X 298mm)
Paperback: 66 Color Illus.
ISBN: 0-951-634859 |
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* Who were the embroiderers of the Bayeux Tapestry?
• What were their tools, their materials, and how could
such a massive project have been designed and organised?
These questions and many others have been avoided for so long
due to a lack of hard facts, but in this book the author has drawn
upon her own experience as an embroiderer and artist to piece
together all the clues she could find in the tapestry itself.
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After extensive research,
Jan Messent has compiled a fascinating and colourful account which
will help to place this famous embroidery in a plausible context.
This new study is essential reading for anyone wishing to know more
about –
The Bayeux Tapestry Embroiderers.
Footnote: I had the opportunity to attend Jan Messent’s
lecture on the Bayeux Tapestry and found it completely engrossing
– the author had the unique ability to transport the audience
back to the time and places after scores, perhaps hundreds of landed
wealthy widowed women, fled to the nunneries after the defeat of
the English at the Battle of Hastings - and there begins this incredible
story). Martin Field
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THE
BAYEUX TAPESTRY: Digital Edition
By Martin K. Foys
Scholarly Digital Editions 2003
Individual Buyers -
This License: ISBN: 0-9539610-4-4
Allows you to make one copy of this publication on your hard disc
and print images and other materials for private study.
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Library And Institutional Buyers
This License: ISBN: 0-9539610-5-2
Permits the institution to mount this publication on a single
networked installation with no more than twenty computers connected
to it.
Teachers and researchers in the institution may project images
from this CD for instructional use. The institution may also lend
this copy to members of the institution. The institution may make
one copy only of the data on a hard disc; no other copies of the
data on this CD-ROM are permitted.
Canadian Funds $195.00 U.S Funds $145.00
System Requirements
CD-ROM drive (6x or faster);
800x 600 pixel screen size with 16 bit (thousands of colours)
or better
32 MB free system memory
Macintosh: System 7.0 or later (Classic mode required for OS X).
Windows: Windows 98 or later, 233 mHz or faster
An internet browser (not provided on the CD-ROM) is required for
the print and copy facility while Quicktime is needed for the
battlefield panoramas.
All other software and fonts are provided on the CD-ROM.
The Tapestry Itself
• View Images of the entire Tapestry, as a single scrolling
panel
• Magnify images, so that individual stitches can be seen
• Go to a particular scene by clicking on an outline view
• View with translation of inscriptions, and with a full
commentary
Other Images
• Full reproductions of the Reading, Montfaucon, and Stothard
facsimiles
• ‘Museum’: close-ups of the Tapestry, and related
materials from manuscripts, buildings, archaeology, all with commentary
Related Primary Texts
• ‘Library’: full texts, in modern authoritative
translations, of sixteen primary sources
• Commentary on these, with links to the Tapestry
• Texts may be copied and printed
The Battlefield; maps
• Panoramic videos of the battlefield, with maps
• Maps showing the events of 1064 to 1066
Commentaries and discussions
• Full commentary on every panel and screen
• Genealogies; glossaries of people, places, events, details
• Full editorial introduction: date, origin, manufacture,
history
• Help documentation, slideshow and search system
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Dyes in History And Archaeology 18
Including papers presented at the - 18th Meeting, held at the
Institute
Royal du Patrimoine Artistique/Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium,
Brussels, 21-22 October 1999
Edited by Jo Kirby - The National Gallery, London
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The selection of papers
included in the present volume shows the very varied aspects of
traditional dyestuffs that are the subject of research: archaeological,
chemical, historical and practical. It is extremely satisfying that
interest in the field of natural and early synthetic dyestuffs is
not only so broadly based in the different disciplines represented,
but also truly international: contributors to this volume include
researchers based in Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Russia, as well
as western Europe. |
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