Ancient textiles
An edition of Ancient textiles (2007)
production, craft and society : Proceedings of the First International Conference on Ancient Textiles, held at Lund, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 19-23, 2003
By International Conference on Ancient Textiles (1st 2003 Lund, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark)
Publish Date
2007
Publisher
Oxbow Books,David Brown Book Co. [distributor]
Language
eng
Pages
286
Description:
Presents a look at textiles in the ancient world, based on a conference held in Denmark and Sweden in March 2003. Section one of this volume takes a chronological look through the history. Section two focuses on the relationship between the primary producer and the secondary receiver. The third section examines the symbolic nature of textiles.