Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781842177679
Pub Date: 30 Oct 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Illustrations: b/w & col. illus
Description:
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.