Crafting Textiles : : Tablet Weaving, Sprang, Lace and Other Techniques from the Bronze Age to the Early 17th Century.

• Superior document: Ancient Textiles Series ; v.39
• Author: Pritchard, Frances.
• Place / Publishing House: Havertown : : Oxbow Books, Limited,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Ancient Textiles Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- List of contributors -- In memoriam Peter Collingwood -- Section I Tablet weaving -- Chapter 1 'Tablet weaving is a small byway of textile production…': Bronze and Iron Age tablet bands with stripes, meanders and triangles from the salt mines in Austria -- Chapter 2 The use of weaving tablets in the production of headdresses in Egypt in the Roman and Byzantine periods: A study of a bourrelet from Antinoopolis -- Chapter 3 Evidence of tablet weaving from Viking-age Dublin -- Chapter 4 The so-called 'Palermo bands' and their technique -- Section II Sprang -- Chapter 5 Hairnets with gold tube beads from the Roman Rhineland and their textile technique -- Chapter 6 Sprang hairnets from the necropolis of Fag el-Gamous in the Fayum, Egypt -- Chapter 7 Tight-fitting clothing in antiquity and the Renaissance: Research and experimental reconstruction -- Section III Braiding and lace making -- Chapter 8 Braided strings and Turk's head knots on European secular and religious textiles -- Chapter 9 A unique survival: A woman's fifteenth-century headdress from Lengberg Castle, East Tyrol -- Chapter 10 From narrow four-strand plaits to openwork bobbin-made braids and edgings -- Section IV Spinning -- Chapter 11 The story of twist: Handspinning as a medieval craft.