The Cambridge
History of Western Textiles 2 Volume Set
Edited by David Jenkins
Contributors | Description | Contents
Contributors
John Peter Wild, Penelope Walton Rogers, Joan
Allgrove McDowell, Lise Bender Jørgensen, Ian
Jenkins, Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood, John Munro,
Anna Muthesius, Frances Pritchard, Herman Van der
Wee, Leslie Clarkson, Beverly Lemire, Serge
Chassagne, Natalie Rothstein, Santina Levey,
Edith Standen, Jennifer Wearden, Aileen Ribeiro,
Douglas Farnie, David Jenkins, Peter Solar,
Stanley Chapman, Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark,
Penelope Byrde, Donald Coleman, Jeffrey Harrop,
Lars Sandberg, Lou Taylor, Fiona Anderson, Mary
Schoeser
Description
Textiles have been essential to the everyday
lives of all societies. Besides helping provide
protection and warmth, they have fulfilled
social, cultural, military, legal and symbolic
functions, and have been an essential part of the
economic activity of societies from ancient
times. The Cambridge History of Western Textiles
brings together and extends current knowledge on
the production and uses of textiles, through the
eyes of archaeologists, economic and social
historians, historians of fashion and the history
of dress, and museum curators familiar with
surviving artefacts. The history of all the major
textile industries, including wool, linen, silk,
cotton and artificial fibres is explored.
Processes and technical terms are explained
carefully, while the role and impact of textiles
in western economies and societies are examined.
In sum, the book offers an authoritative account
of three thousand years of the production and
consumption of textiles in the western world.
Chapter Contents
Preface; Part I. Textile Industries of the
Ancient World: 1. Introduction John Peter Wild
and Penelope Walton Rogers; 2. Ancient Egypt;
Anatolia; Mesopotamia and the Levant; the late
Bronze Aegeans; the near east in the Iron Age;
Europe Joan Allgrove McDowell, John Peter Wild
and Lise Bender Jørgensen; 3. The Greeks; the
Romans; northern Europe in the Roman Iron Age;
the eastern Mediterranean Ian Jenkins, John Peter
Wild and Lise Bender Jørgensen; 4. Textile
industries of the early medieval world to AD 1000
Lise Bender Jørgensen, Penelope Walton Rogers,
John Peter Wild, Joan Allgrove McDowell and
Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood; Part II. The Medieval
Period: 5 (i) Medieval woollens; textiles,
textile technology and industrial organisation,
c. 800–1500, 5 (ii) The western European
woollen industries and their struggles for
international markets, c. 1000–1500 John
Munro; 6. Silk in the medieval world Anna
Muthesius; 7. The uses of textiles, c. 1000–1500
Frances Pritchard; Part III. The Early Modern
Period: 8. The west European woollen industries,
1500–1750 Herman Van der Wee; 9. The linen
industry in early modern Europe Leslie Clarkson;
10. Fashioning cottons; Asian trade, domestic
industry and consumer demand, 1660–1780
Beverly Lemire; 11. Calico printing in Europe
before 1780 Serge Chassagne; 12. Silk in the
early modern period, c. 1500–1780 Natalie
Rothstein; 13. Knitting and knitware Joan Thirsk;
14. Lace in the early modern period, c. 1500–1780
Santina Levey; 15. Early modern tapestries and
carpets, c. 1500–1780 Edith Standen,
Jennifer Wearden; 16. Furnishings, c. 1500–1780
Natalie Rothstein and Santina Levey; 17. Dress in
the early modern period, c. 1500-1780 Aileen
Ribeiro; Part IV. The Nineteenth Century: 18.
Cotton, 1780–1914 Douglas Farnie; 19. The
western wool textile industry in the nineteenth
century David Jenkins; 20. Silk: the Industrial
Revolution and after Natalie Rothstein; 21. The
linen industry in the nineteenth century Peter
Solar; 22. The hosiery industry, 1780–1914
Stanley Chapman; 23. Machine-made lace: the
Industrial Revolution and after Santina Levey;
24. Textile design and furnishings, c. 1780–1914
Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark; 25. Dress: the
Industrial Revolution and after Penelope Byrde;
Part V. The Twentieth Century: 26. Man-made
fibres before 1945 Donald Coleman; 27. Man-made
fibres since 1945 Jeffrey Harrop; 28 Cotton since
1914 Lars Sandberg; 29. Wool textiles in the
twentieth century David Jenkins; 30 Hosiery and
knitwear in the twentieth century Stanley
Chapman; 31. Fashion for men and women in the
twentieth century Lou Taylor and Fiona Anderson;
32. Furnishings and industrial textiles, 1914–1999
Mary Schoeser; Bibliography.
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Price: c. GBP 150.00
Page updated: 10 December
2001
ISBN: 0521341078
Binding: Hardback
Pages: 1500
Weight: 0kg
Figures: 280 half-tones 40 colour plates
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