Textiles & Clothing ca. 1150-1450
Crowfoot, Pritchard, Staniland
Ein weiterer Band der Excavations in London - Textilfunde ca. 1150
- 1450
Among the most evocative items to be discovered by archaeologists
are the scraps of silk and wool and other fabrics that signal so
eloquently their owner's status and concerns. Such clothing and
textile finds have figured prominently in excavations of medieval
sites in London in the past two decades; they have included
knitting, tapestries, silk hair-nets and elaborately patterned
oriental, Islamic and Italian fabrics, which reveal for the first
time the wide range of cloths available to medieval Londoners;
there are beautifully made buttons, and buttonholes and edgings
which display superb craftsmanship and a high level of needlework
skills; the way that clothes were cut and sewncan be studied in
detail. This highly readable account will be of wide general
interest; dress historians and archaeologists will also find a
wealth of new insights into the fashions, clothing and textile
industries of medieval England and Europe.
Contents include: The Excavations, Techniques used in Textile
Production, Wool Textiles, Goathair Textiles, Linen Textiles, Silk
Textiles, Mixed Cloths, Narrow Wares, Sewing Techniques and
Tailoring, Dyes.
Format 20 x 25 cm, 224 Seiten, Paperback, sehr viele s/w und
Farbabbildungen, engl. Text
Best.-Nr. Bb006