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5000 years of textiles / edited by Jennifer Harris.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : British Museum, in association with The Whitworth Art Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2004Description: 320 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles (some colour), maps, colour portrait ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0714125709
  • 9780714125701
Other title:
  • Five thousand years of textiles
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 746.09 22
LOC classification:
  • NK8806 .A17 2004
Contents:
Preface / Jennifer Harris -- Introduction / Jennifer Harris -- I. A survey of textile techniques / Jennifer Harris -- II. A survey of world textiles -- The ancient world -- 1. Introduction / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 2. The Mediterranean / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 3. Central and northern Europe / John-Peter Wild -- The near and Middle East -- 4. Sassanian textiles / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 5. Early Islamic textiles / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 6. Byzantine silks / Anna Muthesis -- 7. Safavid Iran (1499-1722) / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 8. The Ottoman empire / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 9. Central Asian textiles / Jennifer Wearden -- 10. Palestinian embroidery / Shelagh Weir -- India and Pakistan -- 11. Historical development and trade / Margaret Hall -- 12. Tribal textiles / Margaret Hall -- Carpets -- 13. Carpets of the Middle and Far East / Patricia L. Baker -- The Far East -- 14. China / Verity Wilson -- 15. Japan / Susan Marie Best -- 16. South-East Asia / Sylvia Fraser-Lu -- Western Europe -- 17. Sicilian silks / Anna Muthesius -- 18. Italian silks (1300-1500) / Lisa Monnas -- 19. Italian silks (1500-1900) / Jacqueline Herald -- 20. Spanish silks / Jacqueline Herald -- 21. French silks (1650-1800) / Lesley Miller -- 22. Figured linen damasks / Jacqueline Herald -- 23. Tapestry / Thomas Campbell -- 24. Embroidery / Santina M. Levey -- 25. Lace / Santina M. Levey -- 26. Printed textiles / Jennifer Harris -- Central and Eastern Europe -- 27. Eastern Europe / Jennifer Wearden -- 28. Greece, the Greek Islands and Albania / Roderick R. Taylor -- The Americas -- 29. Colonial North America (1700-1990s) / Mary Schoeser -- 30. Native North America / Colin Taylor and Betty Taylor -- 31. Latin America / Chloe Sayer and Penny Bateman -- Africa -- 32. North Africa / Caroline Stone -- 33. Sub-saharan Africa and the offshore islands / John Mack.
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"Pocket edition"--T.p. verso.

Originally published: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-311) and index.

Preface / Jennifer Harris -- Introduction / Jennifer Harris -- I. A survey of textile techniques / Jennifer Harris -- II. A survey of world textiles -- The ancient world -- 1. Introduction / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 2. The Mediterranean / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 3. Central and northern Europe / John-Peter Wild -- The near and Middle East -- 4. Sassanian textiles / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 5. Early Islamic textiles / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 6. Byzantine silks / Anna Muthesis -- 7. Safavid Iran (1499-1722) / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 8. The Ottoman empire / Joan Allgrove McDowell -- 9. Central Asian textiles / Jennifer Wearden -- 10. Palestinian embroidery / Shelagh Weir -- India and Pakistan -- 11. Historical development and trade / Margaret Hall -- 12. Tribal textiles / Margaret Hall -- Carpets -- 13. Carpets of the Middle and Far East / Patricia L. Baker -- The Far East -- 14. China / Verity Wilson -- 15. Japan / Susan Marie Best -- 16. South-East Asia / Sylvia Fraser-Lu -- Western Europe -- 17. Sicilian silks / Anna Muthesius -- 18. Italian silks (1300-1500) / Lisa Monnas -- 19. Italian silks (1500-1900) / Jacqueline Herald -- 20. Spanish silks / Jacqueline Herald -- 21. French silks (1650-1800) / Lesley Miller -- 22. Figured linen damasks / Jacqueline Herald -- 23. Tapestry / Thomas Campbell -- 24. Embroidery / Santina M. Levey -- 25. Lace / Santina M. Levey -- 26. Printed textiles / Jennifer Harris -- Central and Eastern Europe -- 27. Eastern Europe / Jennifer Wearden -- 28. Greece, the Greek Islands and Albania / Roderick R. Taylor -- The Americas -- 29. Colonial North America (1700-1990s) / Mary Schoeser -- 30. Native North America / Colin Taylor and Betty Taylor -- 31. Latin America / Chloe Sayer and Penny Bateman -- Africa -- 32. North Africa / Caroline Stone -- 33. Sub-saharan Africa and the offshore islands / John Mack.

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