Research Catalog

Title

Woven threads : patterned textiles of the Aegean bronze age / edited by Maria C. Shaw and Anne P. Chapin.

Publication

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Shaw, Maria C.
• Chapin, Anne Proctor

Description

vii, 279 pages; 26 cm.

Summary

Woven textiles are produced by nearly all human societies. This volume investigates evidence for patterned textiles (that is, textiles woven with elaborate designs) that were produced by two early Mediterranean civilisations: the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece, that prospered during the Aegean Bronze Age, c. 3000-1200 BC, contemporary with pharaonic Egypt. Both could boast of specialists in textile production. Together with their wine, oil, and art, Minoan and Mycenaean textiles were much desired as trade goods. Artistic images of their fabrics preserved both in the Aegean and in other parts of the Mediterranean show elaborate patterns woven with rich decorative detail and colour. Only a few small scraps of textiles survive but evidence for their production is abundant and frescoes supply detailed information about a wide variety of now-lost textile goods from luxurious costumes and beautifully patterned wall hangings and carpets, to more utilitarian decorated fabrics. A review of surviving artistic and archaeological evidence indicates that textiles played essential practical and social roles in both Minoan and Mycenaean societies. --Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Ancient textiles series ; 22

Uniform Title

Ancient textiles series ; 22.

Subjects

• Bronze age
• Decoration and ornament, Ancient
• Medelhavsländerna
• Bronze age > Aegean Sea Region
• Textilier
• Bronsåldern
• Decoration and ornament, Ancient > Aegean Sea Region
• Europe > Aegean Sea Region
• Textile fabrics, Ancient > Aegean Sea Region
• Utsmyckning och dekoration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-279).

Contents

• Preface / Maria C. Shaw -- Spinning Ariadne's thread: sources and methodologies / Anne P. Chapin -- Bronze Age Aegean cloth production: a cottage industry no more / Brendan Burke and Anne P. Chapin -- Patterned textiles and costume in Aegean art / Suzanne Peterson Murray -- Palace and household textiles as costume in Aegean Bronze Age art / Maria C. Shaw and Anne P. Chapin -- Textile and stone patterns in the painted floors of the Mycenaean palaces / Emily C. Egan -- Sailing the shining sea: Maritime textiles of the Bronze Age Aegean / Maria C. Shaw and Anne P. Chapin -- String lines, the artist's grid, and the representation of textiles in fresco / Maria C. Shaw -- Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Keftiu / Elizabeth J.W. Barber -- Observations, summaries, and conclusions / Anne P. Chapin.
• "Woven textiles are produced by nearly all human societies. This volume investigates evidence for patterned textiles (that is, textiles woven with elaborate designs) that were produced by two early Mediterranean civilisations: the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece, that prospered during the Aegean Bronze Age, c. 3000-1200 BC, contemporary with pharaonic Egypt. Both could boast of specialists in textile production. Together with their wine, oil, and art, Minoan and Mycenaean textiles were much desired as trade goods. Artistic images of their fabrics preserved both in the Aegean and in other parts of the Mediterranean show elaborate patterns woven with rich decorative detail and colour. Only a few small scraps of textiles survive but evidence for their production is abundant and frescoes supply detailed information about a wide variety of now-lost textile goods from luxurious costumes and beautifully patterned wall hangings and carpets, to more utilitarian decorated fabrics. A review of surviving artistic and archaeological evidence indicates that textiles played essential practical and social roles in both Minoan and Mycenaean societies." -- Publisher's description.

Call Number

JQF 16-1217

ISBN

• 9781785700583
• 1785700588
• 9781785700590 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015035986

OCLC

YBP 2015035986

Title

Woven threads : patterned textiles of the Aegean bronze age / edited by Maria C. Shaw and Anne P. Chapin.

Publisher

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ancient textiles series ; 22

Ancient textiles series ; 22.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-279).

Chronological Term

Bronsåldern

Added Author

Shaw, Maria C., editor.

Chapin, Anne Proctor, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Woven threads. Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015 9781785700590 (DLC) 2015036549

Research Call Number

JQF 16-1217