Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology

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Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and interdisciplinary study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different types of embellishments of dress from weaving techniques to the (late introduction) of embroidery; the close links between the language of ancient mathematics and weaving; the relationships of iconography to the realities of clothed bodies including a paper on the ground breaking research on the polychromy of ancient statuary; dye recipes and methods of analysis; case studies of garments in Spanish, Viennese and Greek collections which discuss methods of analysis and conservation; analyses of textile tools from across the Mediterranean; discussions of trade and ethnicity to the workshop relations in Roman fulleries. Multiple aspects of the production of textiles and the social meaning of dress are included here to offer the reader an up-to-date account of the state of current research. The volume opens up the range of questions that can now be answered when looking at fragments of textiles and examining written and iconographic images of dressed individuals in a range of media. This volume is part of a pair together with Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern and Aegean Textiles and Dress: an interdisciplinary anthology edited by Mary Harlow, CEcile Michel and Marie-Louise Nosch, Isbn 9781782977193 Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Contributors Chapter 1: Weaving the Threads: methodologies in textile and dress research for the Greekand Roman world – the state of the art and the case for cross-disciplinarityby Mary Harlow and Marie-Louise Nosch Chapter 2: Embellishment Techniques of Classical Greek Textiles by Stella Spantidaki Chapter 3: The Importance of Beginnings: gender and reproduction in mathematics and weavingby Ellen Harlizius-Klück Chapter 4: Representation and Realities: fibulas and pins in Greek and Near Eastern iconographyby Cecilie Brøns Chapter 5: Dressing the Citharode: a chapter in Greek musical and cultic imagery by Marco Ercoles Chapter 6: Alchemical Textiles: colourful garments, recipes and dyeing techniquesin Graeco-Roman Egyptby Matteo Martelli Chapter 7: The Conservation of a 5th-Century BC Excavated Textile Find from the KerameikosCemetery at Athensby Christina Margariti and Maria Kinti Chapter 8: Transport Amphoras and Loomweights: integrating elements of ancientGreek economies?by Mark L. Lawall Chapter 9: The Wool Basket: function, depiction and meaning of the kalathosby Elisabeth Trinkl Chapter 10: Unravelling the Tangled Threads of Ancient Embroidery: a compilation ofwritten sources and archaeologically preserved textilesby Kerstin Droß-Krüpe and Annette Paetz gen. Schieck Chapter 11: New Archaeological Data for the Understanding of Weaving in Herakleia,Southern Basilicata, Italyby Francesco Meo Chapter 12: Roman Art: what can it tell us about dress and textiles? A discussionon the use of visual evidence as sources for textile researchby Lena Larsson Lovén Chapter 13: Where Marble Meets Colour: surface texturing of hair, skin and dress on Romanmarble portraits as support for painted polychromyby Amalie Skovmøller Chapter 14: Dressing the Adulteressby Jessica Dixon Chapter 15: Looking Between Loom and Laundry: vision and communication in Ostianfulling workshopsby Elizabeth Bevis Chapter 16: Roman Textiles and Barbarians: some observations on textile exchangebetween the Roman Empire and Barbaricumby Zofia Kaczmarek Chapter 17: The Multiple Functions and Lives of a Textile: the reuse of a garmentby Ines Bogensperger Chapter 18: Discovering Late Antique Textiles in the Public Collections in Spain:an interdisciplinary research projectby Laura Rodríguez Peinado, Ana Cabrera Lafuente, Enrique Parra Cregoand Luis Turell Coll Chapter 19: A New Approach to the Understanding of Historic Textilesby Pilar Borrego and Carmen Vega Chapter 20: Burial Threads: a late antique textile and the iconography of the VirginAnnunciate spinningby Catherine C. Taylor