Woven threads : patterned textiles of the Aegean Bronze Age
2016, First Edition. Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards, showing faint shelfwear only. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; bookplate of Capt Richard Campbell, OBE, RN. Item #476802
Series; Ancient textiles series ; 22. Physical description; 279 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. 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. Subjects; Textile fabrics, Ancient – Aegean Sea Region. Decoration and ornament, Ancient – Aegean Sea Region. Bronze age – Aegean Sea Region. Minoans – Textile industry. Mycenaeans – Textile industry. Aegean Sea Region – Antiquities.
Price: €125.00