The Cambridge History of Western Textiles
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- Editor: David Jenkins, University of York
- Date Published: August 2003
- availability: In stock
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9780521341073
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Textiles have been essential to the everyday lives of all societies. Besides helping provide protection and warmth, they have fulfilled social, cultural, military, legal and symbolic functions, and have been an essential part of the economic activity of societies from ancient times. The Cambridge History of Western Textiles brings together and extends current knowledge on the production and uses of textiles, through the eyes of archaeologists, economic and social historians, historians of fashion and the history of dress, and museum curators familiar with surviving artefacts. The history of all the major textile industries, including wool, linen, silk, cotton and artificial fibres is explored. Processes and technical terms are explained carefully, while the role and impact of textiles in western economies and societies are examined. In sum, the book offers an authoritative account of three thousand years of the production and consumption of textiles in the western world.
Read more- Brings together a huge variety of expertise among leading experts on textiles from eight different countries and covering a three thousand-year span
- Authoritative, scholarly coverage is intended to be approachable by readers with little background knowledge
- Extensively illustrated in colour and black and white, showing many unusual and little-known images
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'… the book is unique in the scope of its coverage coupled with the diversity of its authorship. It is finely produced with some beautiful illustrations, clear diagrams and comprehensible tables, as well as 41 full-page colour plates … It will be a most useful source of reference and stimulation to many.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
See more reviews'… eminently readable … Just to lay one's hands on this jewel of a book is a wondrous thing.' Journal for Weavers
'… the wait has certainly been worthwhile … the two volumes here represent a remarkable achievement by an international group of textile historians working in museums and universities … The work is well-organised and scores highly on accessibility … an outstanding feature is the large number of superb illustrations, many in colour, which enrich the text and will undoubtedly add to the appear of these volumes … this superbly produced two-volume set is good value for money. It combines fine scholarship which will long remain an essential guide to the subject.' Business History
'This is certainly an important reference work which should be on all good library shelves and consulted by all those with historical queries concerning textiles.' Textile History
' … a delight …'. Irish Economic & Social History
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14th Feb 2021 by ZYO
It combines well-coordinated collection of comphrensive essays about textiles in Europe from prehistory to the present. One of the best reference books to find out the vitality and significance of the history of textiles.
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- Date Published: August 2003
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9780521341073
- length: 1400 pages
- dimensions: 265 x 187 x 88 mm
- weight: 3.73kg
- contains: 280 b/w illus. 40 colour illus.
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Textile Industries of the Ancient World:
1. Introduction John Peter Wild and Penelope Walton Rogers
2. Ancient Egypt
Anatolia
Mesopotamia and the Levant
the late Bronze Aegeans
the near east in the Iron Age
Europe Joan Allgrove McDowell, John Peter Wild and Lise Bender Jørgensen
3. The Greeks
the Romans
northern Europe in the Roman Iron Age
the eastern Mediterranean Ian Jenkins, John Peter Wild and Lise Bender Jørgensen
4. Textile industries of the early medieval world to AD 1000 Lise Bender Jørgensen, Penelope Walton Rogers, John Peter Wild, Joan Allgrove McDowell and Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood
Part II. The Medieval Period:
5 (i) Medieval woollens
textiles, textile technology and industrial organisation, c. 800–1500, 5 (ii) The western European woollen industries and their struggles for international markets, c. 1000–1500 John Munro
6. Silk in the medieval world Anna Muthesius
7. The uses of textiles, c. 1000–1500 Frances Pritchard
Part III. The Early Modern Period:
8. The west European woollen industries, 1500–1750 Herman Van der Wee
9. The linen industry in early modern Europe Leslie Clarkson
10. Fashioning cottons
Asian trade, domestic industry and consumer demand, 1660–1780 Beverly Lemire
11. Calico printing in Europe before 1780 Serge Chassagne
12. Silk in the early modern period, c. 1500–1780 Natalie Rothstein
13. Knitting and knitware Joan Thirsk
14. Lace in the early modern period, c. 1500–1780 Santina Levey
15. Early modern tapestries and carpets, c. 1500–1780 Edith Standen and Jennifer Wearden
16. Furnishings, c. 1500–1780 Natalie Rothstein and Santina Levey
17. Dress in the early modern period, c. 1500-1780 Aileen Ribeiro
Part IV. The Nineteenth Century:
18. Cotton, 1780–1914 Douglas Farnie
19. The western wool textile industry in the nineteenth century David Jenkins
20. Silk: the Industrial Revolution and after Natalie Rothstein
21. The linen industry in the nineteenth century Peter Solar
22. The hosiery industry, 1780–1914 Stanley Chapman
23. Machine-made lace: the Industrial Revolution and after Santina Levey
24. Textile design and furnishings, c. 1780–1914 Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark
25. Dress: the Industrial Revolution and after Penelope Byrde
Part V. The Twentieth Century:
26. Man-made fibres before 1945 Donald Coleman
27. Man-made fibres since 1945 Jeffrey Harrop
28 Cotton since 1914 Lars Sandberg
29. Wool textiles in the twentieth century David Jenkins
30 Hosiery and knitwear in the twentieth century Stanley Chapman
31. Fashion for men and women in the twentieth century Lou Taylor and Fiona Anderson
32. Furnishings and industrial textiles, 1914–1999 Mary Schoeser
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