Recent palaeoenvironmental evidence for the processing of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) in eastern England during the medieval period [PDF]
, 2005 [FIRST PARAGRAPH] Hemp (Cannabissativa L.)— whose origins as a domesticated plant probably lie in C.Asia — has been cultivated in England since at least a.d.800 (and before this perhaps in the Roman Period), mainly for its ¿bre, which was used to make ...
Bunting, M.J. +5 more
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Using digital and hand printing techniques to compensate for loss: re-establishing colour and texture in historic textiles [PDF]
, 2008 Conservators use a range of 'gap filling' techniques to improve the structural stability and presentation of objects. Textile conservators often use fabric supports to provide reinforcement for weak areas of a textile and to provide a visual infill in ...
Ahmon J. +21 more
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Archaeological textiles excavated at Rayy [PDF]
Techniques & culture, 2000 Pendant The Joint Expedition to Persia (1931-1936), plus de 200 fragments de tissus furent exhumes a Rayy par E. F. Schmidt dans des sites de la periode islamique. Aujourd'hui conserve dans le departement du costume et des textiles au Philadelphia Museum of Art, ce groupe de tissus, principalement en soie et en coton, presente une interessante ...
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Bronze Age textile and wool economy. The case of the Terramare site of Montale, Italy [PDF]
, 2018 At the onset of the 2nd millennium bc, a wool economy emerged across continental Europe. Archaeological, iconographical, and written sources from the Near East and the Aegean show that a Bronze Age wool economy involved considerable specialised labour ...
Cardarelli, Andrea +2 more
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An Analysis of the Style of Male Caftans And Female Dresses of the Alans from the North Caucasus
Поволжская археология, 2017 The article considers the variation in the style of clothing of the Alans populating the territory of the North Caucasus in 8th – 13th centuries. An analysis of pattern drawings allowed the author to assume that the style of Alan clothing was based on ...
Orfinskaya Olga V.
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Bronze Age Textiles: A Preliminary Analysis of Fragments Discovered at Tepe Dasht, Sistan [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2011 Of the many diverse arts that flourished during the third millennium BC, textiles played an especiallysignificant role in society. Archaeological textiles offer an important source of material cultural testimony fordaily life in ancient times- relating ...
Mehdi Mortazavi +2 more
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IDENTIFYING THE MATERIALS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEXTILES
Fibres and Textiles, 2023 Given their organic origin, textiles rank among the rarest archaeological finds. While the vast majority of these artefacts are preserved as small fragments or mineralised remnants, their detailed textile technology study provides interesting and important information about the use of textile techniques and the quality of processing. The most important
HELENA BŘEZINOVÁ +2 more
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A literature review of analytical techniques for materials characterisation of painted textiles - Part 2: spectroscopic and chromatographic analytical instrumentation [PDF]
, 2017 Part Two of this Literature Review of analytical techniques for materials characterisation of painted textiles focusses on the application of vibrational and x-ray spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques used in the analysis of painted textiles to ...
Lennard, Frances +2 more
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Material choices for fibre in the Neolithic: an approach through the measurement of mechanical properties [PDF]
, 2016 Studies of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe have focused on plants and animals exploited for food. However, the exploitation of plants for fibres underwent a significant change with the addition of domestic flax as a fibre crop.
Haigh, Sarah +3 more
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Clothing the Elite? Patterns of Textile Production and Consumption in Ancient Sudan and Nubia
Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2018 The Kingdom of Meroe (300 BCE-350 CE) developed a truly unique textile tradition, represented by hundreds of preserved fabrics, tools and iconographic representations.
Elsa Yvanez
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