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1 online resource |
| Series |
Ancient Textiles Series ; v. 13 |
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Ancient textiles series.
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| Contents |
Introduction / John Peter Wild -- Transformations in textile production and exchange in pre-Roman Italy / Margarita Gleba -- Textile making in central Tyrrhenian Italy : questions related to age, rank and status / Sanna Lipkin -- Discovering the people behind the textiles : Iron Age textile producers and their products in Austria / Karina Grömer -- Textile production and trade in Roman Noricum / Kordula Gostencnik -- Craftspeople, merchants or clients? : the evidence of personal names on the commercial lead tags from Siscia / Ivan Radman-Livaja -- Female work and identity in Roman textile production and trade : a methodological discussion / Lena Larsson Lovén -- Trade, traders and guilds in textiles : the case of southern Gaul and northern Italy (1st-3rd centuries AD) / Jinyu Liu -- Textile trade in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea / Manuel Albaladejo Vivero -- Textiles and their merchants in Rome's eastern trade / by Kerstin Dross-Krüpe -- (In)visible spinners in the documentary papyri from Roman Egypt / Sophie Gällnö -- Textile production centres, products and merchants in the Roman province of Asia / Isabella Benda-Weber -- Ulula, Quinquatrus and the occupational identity of fullones in early imperial Italy / Miko Flohr -- A "private" felter's workshop in the Casa dei Postumii in Pompeii / Jens Arne Dickmann |
| Summary |
Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances and these trade networks were influenced by raw material supply, labour skills, costs, as well as by regional traditions. This was true in the Mediterranean regions and Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman times explores the abundant archaeological and written evidence to understand the typological and geographical diversity of textile commodities. Beginning in the Iron Age, the volume examines t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Textile fabrics, Prehistoric -- Italy
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Textile fabrics, Roman.
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Textile industry -- Italy -- History -- To 1500
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Textile industry -- Rome -- History
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Textiles & Polymers.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Textile fabrics, Prehistoric
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Textile fabrics, Roman
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Textile industry
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Italy
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gleba, Margarita, author, editor
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Pásztókai-Szeoke, Judit, editor
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| LC no. |
2013039194 |
| ISBN |
9781842179024 |
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1842179020 |
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9781842179000 |
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1842179004 |
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