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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Frances PritchardPublisher: Oxbow Books Imprint: Oxbow Books Volume: 39 ISBN: 9781789257595ISBN 10: 178925759 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 01 September 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Contributor addresses 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 the Twist – Handspinning as a Medieval Craft Katrin Kania IndexReviewsAuthor InformationFrances Pritchard is an Honorary Research Fellow of The University of Manchester. She has been a museum professional since 1977 working principally in the Department of Urban Archaeology, Museum of London, and as Curator (Textiles) at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Her current research focuses on textiles from excavations in Dublin and Egypt. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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