The Cambridge History of Western Textiles
2 Volume Hardback Boxed Set

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
Bibliography.

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