Horizon Information Portal

Institute Libraries

Institute Libraries

Home

The Roman textile industry and its influence : a birthday tribute to John Peter Wild / edited by Penelope Walton Rogers, Lise Bender Jørgensen, Antoinette Rast-Eicher.

Oxford : Oxbow, 2001.

Textile industry -- Rome -- History.

Textile industry -- Europe -- History.

Textile fabrics, Roman -- History.

Costume -- Rome -- History.

Rome -- Antiquities

xiii, 200 pages, 7 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portrait ; 25 cm

Dr. John Peter Wild: an appreciation -- Roman Egypt and Nubia. 1. Mons Claudianus: investigating Roman textiles in the desert / Lise Bender Jorgensen and Ulla Mannering. 2. On the road to Berenike: a piece of tunic in damask weave from Didymoi / Dominique Cardon. 3. Two wide-sleeved linen tunics from Roman Egypt / Frances Pritchard and Chris Verhecken-Lammens. 4. Varia romana: textiles from a Roman army dump / Nettie K. Adams and Elisabeth Crowfoot. 5. Goat-hair textiles from Karanis, Egypt / Jane Batcheller -- Contact with Asia. 6. Two resist-dyed cottons recently found at Karadong, Xinjiang (3rd century AD) / Sophie Desrosiers, Corinne Debaine-Francfort and Abdurassul Idriss. 7. A re-consideration of the human-figure emblems excavated in the at-Tar Caves in Iraq / Kazuko Sakamoto. 8. Was there Greek or Roman influence on Sasanian women's clothing? / Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood -- Europe, inside and outside the Frontier. 9. Recent discoveries of gold textiles from Augustan Age Gadir (Cadiz) / Carmen Alfaro Giner. 10. Roman textiles in Switzerland / Antoinette Rast-Eicher. 11. Beyond the Empire: an Irish mantle and cloak / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett. 12. The Orkney hood, re-dated and reconsidered / Thea Gabra-Sanders. 13. Recent textile finds of the Roman period in Poland / Jerzy Maik. 14. The early Alamanni: the start of a new textile project / Johanna Banck-Burgess. 15. Recent analyses of the textiles from Bokener Moor and Vaaler Moor, Germany / Klaus Tidow. 16. A typical costume of the North German Iron Age? Some observations during conservation of the Bernuthsfeld 'plaid' / Heidemarie Farke -- Later Strands. 17. From the Roman horizontal loom to the 3/1 twill damask loom of the early medieval period / Daniel De Jonghe. 18. A previously unrecognised Lion Silk at Canterbury / Anne Muthesius. 19. The re-appearance of an old Roman loom in medieval England / Penelope Walton Rogers. 20. Where are the Romans? Classical influences on women's fashionable dress from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century / Naomi Tarrant. 21. The contribution of experimental archaeology to the research of ancient textiles / Elizabeth Peacock -- John Peter Wild: a bibliography.

"John Peter Wild: a bibliography": pages 193-200.

Includes bibliographical references.

Search the library catalog on Facebook or on your mobile phone!

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

Powered by Dynix

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal