I received my copy from DBBC this week of
Gillis, Carole (ed.) & Nosch, Marie-Louise (ed.) Ancient Textiles
Production, Crafts and Society. United States: Oxbow Books/David
Brown Book Co, 2007. ISBN 1842172026
from the conference http://www3.lu.se/klass/textiles/crossdisciplinary.html
The book contains a large number of papers covering a WIDE time
period: from the earliest prehistory up to the 18th C. Three papers
were of particular interest to me:
1) "Textile Tools and Production during the Viking Age" by
Eva B. Andersson had a nice table containing the elements of Viking
costume for men and woment giving the weight of textile for each and
weaving technique. This estimate is from the reconstruction done in
Lejre and is based on the Haithabu/Hedeby finds.
2) "Textile Production in Proto-historic Italy: from
Specialists to Workshops" by Margarita Gleba has some nice
information on the weaving of tablet borders and a nice illustration
of a method using warp-weighted tablets.
3) "Woolen Textiles in Archaeological Finds and
Descriptions in Written Sources of the 14th to 18th Centuries" by
Kaus Tidow and Eva Jordan-Fahrbach
Please be aware that the Appendix is also available separately as:
Gillis, Carole, and Marie-Louise Nosch. First Aid for the Excavation
of Archaeological Textiles. [Denmark]: Danish National Research
Foundation's Centre for Textile Research, 2007. ISBN:9781842172230
1842172239 OCLC:154660493
Beth
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