Making textiles in pre-Roman and Roman times

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...

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Main Author: Gleba, Margarita (Editor, VerfasserIn, HerausgeberIn)
Other Authors: Pásztókai-Szeoke, Judit (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books , 2013
Series:Ancient Textiles Series v. 13
Subjects:
To 1500
Italy
Rome (Empire)
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvh1dr70
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Making textiles in pre-Roman and Roman times
E-Book Packages:JSTOR E-Books in Classical Studies
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / John Peter Wild
  • Transformations in textile production and exchange in pre-Roman Italy / Margarita Gleba
  • Textile making in central Tyrrhenian Italy : questions related to age, rank and status / Sanna Lipkin
  • Discovering the people behind the textiles : Iron Age textile producers and their products in Austria / Karina Grömer
  • Textile production and trade in Roman Noricum / Kordula Gostencnik
  • Craftspeople, merchants or clients? : the evidence of personal names on the commercial lead tags from Siscia / Ivan Radman-Livaja
  • Female work and identity in Roman textile production and trade : a methodological discussion / Lena Larsson Lovén
  • Trade, traders and guilds in textiles : the case of southern Gaul and northern Italy (1st-3rd centuries AD) / Jinyu Liu
  • Textile trade in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea / Manuel Albaladejo Vivero
  • Textiles and their merchants in Rome's eastern trade / by Kerstin Dross-Krüpe
  • (In)visible spinners in the documentary papyri from Roman Egypt / Sophie Gällnö
  • Textile production centres, products and merchants in the Roman province of Asia / Isabella Benda-Weber
  • Ulula, Quinquatrus and the occupational identity of fullones in early imperial Italy / Miko Flohr
  • A "private" felter's workshop in the Casa dei Postumii in Pompeii / Jens Arne Dickmann.

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