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The Roman textile industry and its influence : a birthday tribute to John Peter Wild / edited by Penelope Walton Rogers, Lise Bender Jørgensen, Antoinette Rast-Eicher.

Contributor(s): Walton Rogers, Penelope | Jørgensen, Lise Bender | Rast-Eicher, Antoinette | Wild, John PeterMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxbow, c2001. Description: xiii, 200 p., [7] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, port. ; 25 cmISBN: 1842170465Subject(s): Textile industry -- Rome -- History | Textile industry -- Europe -- History | Textile fabrics, Roman -- History | Costume -- Rome -- History | Rome -- AntiquitiesGenre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 338.4767700937 LOC classification: TS1316 | .R65 2001
Contents:
Dr. John Peter Wild: an appreciation -- Roman Egypt and Nubia. 1. Mons Claudianus: investigating Roman textiles in the desert / Lise Bender Jorgensen and Ulla Mannering. 2. On the road to Berenike: a piece of tunic in damask weave from Didymoi / Dominique Cardon. 3. Two wide-sleeved linen tunics from Roman Egypt / Frances Pritchard and Chris Verhecken-Lammens. 4. Varia romana: textiles from a Roman army dump / Nettie K. Adams and Elisabeth Crowfoot. 5. Goat-hair textiles from Karanis, Egypt / Jane Batcheller -- Contact with Asia. 6. Two resist-dyed cottons recently found at Karadong, Xinjiang (3rd century AD) / Sophie Desrosiers, Corinne Debaine-Francfort and Abdurassul Idriss. 7. A re-consideration of the human-figure emblems excavated in the at-Tar Caves in Iraq / Kazuko Sakamoto. 8. Was there Greek or Roman influence on Sasanian women's clothing? / Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood --^
Europe, inside and outside the Frontier. 9. Recent discoveries of gold textiles from Augustan Age Gadir (Cadiz) / Carmen Alfaro Giner. 10. Roman textiles in Switzerland / Antoinette Rast-Eicher. 11. Beyond the Empire: an Irish mantle and cloak / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett. 12. The Orkney hood, re-dated and reconsidered / Thea Gabra-Sanders. 13. Recent textile finds of the Roman period in Poland / Jerzy Maik. 14. The early Alamanni: the start of a new textile project / Johanna Banck-Burgess. 15. Recent analyses of the textiles from Bokener Moor and Vaaler Moor, Germany / Klaus Tidow. 16. A typical costume of the North German Iron Age? Some observations during conservation of the Bernuthsfeld 'plaid' / Heidemarie Farke --^
Later Strands. 17. From the Roman horizontal loom to the 3/1 twill damask loom of the early medieval period / Daniel De Jonghe. 18. A previously unrecognised Lion Silk at Canterbury / Anne Muthesius. 19. The re-appearance of an old Roman loom in medieval England / Penelope Walton Rogers. 20. Where are the Romans? Classical influences on women's fashionable dress from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century / Naomi Tarrant. 21. The contribution of experimental archaeology to the research of ancient textiles / Elizabeth Peacock -- John Peter Wild: a bibliography.
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"John Peter Wild: a bibliography": p. [193]-200.

Includes bibliographical references.

Dr. John Peter Wild: an appreciation -- Roman Egypt and Nubia. 1. Mons Claudianus: investigating Roman textiles in the desert / Lise Bender Jorgensen and Ulla Mannering. 2. On the road to Berenike: a piece of tunic in damask weave from Didymoi / Dominique Cardon. 3. Two wide-sleeved linen tunics from Roman Egypt / Frances Pritchard and Chris Verhecken-Lammens. 4. Varia romana: textiles from a Roman army dump / Nettie K. Adams and Elisabeth Crowfoot. 5. Goat-hair textiles from Karanis, Egypt / Jane Batcheller -- Contact with Asia. 6. Two resist-dyed cottons recently found at Karadong, Xinjiang (3rd century AD) / Sophie Desrosiers, Corinne Debaine-Francfort and Abdurassul Idriss. 7. A re-consideration of the human-figure emblems excavated in the at-Tar Caves in Iraq / Kazuko Sakamoto. 8. Was there Greek or Roman influence on Sasanian women's clothing? / Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood --^

Europe, inside and outside the Frontier. 9. Recent discoveries of gold textiles from Augustan Age Gadir (Cadiz) / Carmen Alfaro Giner. 10. Roman textiles in Switzerland / Antoinette Rast-Eicher. 11. Beyond the Empire: an Irish mantle and cloak / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett. 12. The Orkney hood, re-dated and reconsidered / Thea Gabra-Sanders. 13. Recent textile finds of the Roman period in Poland / Jerzy Maik. 14. The early Alamanni: the start of a new textile project / Johanna Banck-Burgess. 15. Recent analyses of the textiles from Bokener Moor and Vaaler Moor, Germany / Klaus Tidow. 16. A typical costume of the North German Iron Age? Some observations during conservation of the Bernuthsfeld 'plaid' / Heidemarie Farke --^

Later Strands. 17. From the Roman horizontal loom to the 3/1 twill damask loom of the early medieval period / Daniel De Jonghe. 18. A previously unrecognised Lion Silk at Canterbury / Anne Muthesius. 19. The re-appearance of an old Roman loom in medieval England / Penelope Walton Rogers. 20. Where are the Romans? Classical influences on women's fashionable dress from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century / Naomi Tarrant. 21. The contribution of experimental archaeology to the research of ancient textiles / Elizabeth Peacock -- John Peter Wild: a bibliography.