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Crafting textiles : tablet weaving, sprang, lace and other techniques from the Bronze Age to the early 17th century / edited by Frances Pritchard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ancient textiles series ; 39.Publisher: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2021Description: 1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781789257601
  • 1789257603
  • 9781789257625
  • 178925762X
Other title:
  • Tablet weaving, sprang, lace and other techniques from the Bronze Age to the early 17th century
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crafting textiles.DDC classification:
  • 677.009 23
LOC classification:
  • CC79.5.T48 C73 2021eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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 twist : handspinning as a Medieval craft / Katrin Kania.
Summary: "New research into the techniques of tablet weaving, sprang, braiding, knotting and lace is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume written by leading specialists from Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA. Drawing inspiration from the pioneering work of Peter Collingwood, this publication explores aspects of these craft skills in the prehistoric, Roman and medieval world through scientific, object-based analysis and 'research through making'. The work is the outcome of recent discoveries of archaeological textile finds from excavations as well as fresh examination of material recovered in the past, or preserved in treasuries. Early textiles form an increasingly popular subject of interest and this publication, which is a landmark in the study of various specialised textile techniques, aims to provide the reader with a better understanding of these virtuoso craft skills in antiquity."-- Provided by publisher.
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"Early Textiles Study Group Occasional Publication."--Title page.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 18, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references.

"New research into the techniques of tablet weaving, sprang, braiding, knotting and lace is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume written by leading specialists from Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA. Drawing inspiration from the pioneering work of Peter Collingwood, this publication explores aspects of these craft skills in the prehistoric, Roman and medieval world through scientific, object-based analysis and 'research through making'. The work is the outcome of recent discoveries of archaeological textile finds from excavations as well as fresh examination of material recovered in the past, or preserved in treasuries. Early textiles form an increasingly popular subject of interest and this publication, which is a landmark in the study of various specialised textile techniques, aims to provide the reader with a better understanding of these virtuoso craft skills in antiquity."-- Provided by publisher.

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 twist : handspinning as a Medieval craft / Katrin Kania.

Frances Pritchard is Curator (Textiles) at the Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, UK.

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