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Making Textiles in Pre-Roman and Roman Times
M Margarita Gleba
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Description for Making Textiles in Pre-Roman and Roman Times
Hardcover. Editor(s): Gleba, Margarita; Pasztokai-Szeoke, Judit. Num Pages: 240 pages, b/w & col. illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HDDK; HDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 886.
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. Beginning in the Iron Age, the volume examines the foundations of the textile trade in Italy and the emergence ... Read more
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. Beginning in the Iron Age, the volume examines the foundations of the textile trade in Italy and the emergence ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
885g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842177679
SKU
V9781842177679
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Ref
99-2
About M Margarita Gleba
Margarita Gleba is Assistant Professor at Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy, and an Affiliated Researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. She has previously held research and teaching positions at University College London, University of Cambridge, the University of Copenhagen and Rutgers University. The author or editor of a number of books, she is also a former Editor of Archaeological Textiles ... Read more
Reviews for Making Textiles in Pre-Roman and Roman Times
Making Textiles in Pre-Roman and Roman Times contributes to emerging directions in scholarship across a number of material culture disciplines, but it is foremost an excellent addition to textile scholarship… while the articles are rich with technical descriptions, they have thoughtfully been made accessible to a wider audience… the volume is well laid out, with ample visuals, including maps, charts, ... Read more