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Textile fabrics. --- Textile fabrics --- Smart materials. --- Technological innovations.

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Textile fabrics, Ancient --- Dyes and dyeing --- Textile fabrics, Roman --- Textile fabrics, Ancient. --- Textile fabrics, Roman. --- Textile fibers --- Textile fibers. --- Mediterranean Region. --- Rome (Empire)

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All textiles begin with a twist. From colourful 30,000-year old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to what the linen wrappings of Tutankhamun's mummy actually meant; from the Silk Roads to the woollen sails that helped the Vikings reach America 700 years before Columbus; from the lace ruffs that infuriated the puritans to the Indian calicoes and chintzes that powered the Industrial Revolution, our continuing reinvention of cloth tells fascinating stories of human ingenuity. When we talk of lives hanging by a thread, being interwoven, or part of the social fabric, we are part of a tradition that stretches back many thousands of years. Fabric has allowed us to achieve extraordinary things and survive in unlikely places, and this book shows you how -- and why. With a cast that includes Chinese empresses, Richard the Lionheart and Bing Crosby, Kassia St Clair takes us on the run with escaped slaves, climbing the slopes of Everest and moonwalking with astronauts. Running like a bright line through history, The Golden Thread offers an unforgettable adventure through our past, present and future.

Textile fabrics --- Textile design --- Thread --- Weaving --- Civilization --- Civilization. --- Textile design. --- Textile fabrics. --- Thread. --- Weaving. --- History.

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Textile production and the manufacture of clothing was one of the most essential daily activities in prehistory. Textiles were significan objects of practical use, and at the same time had cultural, social and symbolic meaning, crucial for displaying the identity, gender, social rank and status, or wealth of their users. Evidence of ancient clothing made of plant and animal fibres, fur, leather, or basketry and mats is scarce due to unfavourable preservation of organic materials. Only occasionally are prehistoric textiles, mats and wood implements preserved, mainly as a result of exceptional environmental conditions, such as waterlogged contexts like bogs, or in very dry or cold climates. In other cases textiles are sporadically mineralised, carbonised or preserved by metal corrosion. Textiles and leather can also be visible as imprints on clay. The beginning of textile manufacture is still vague, but can be traced back to the upper Palaeolithic. Important developments in textile technology, e.g. weaving, spinning with a spindle whorl and the introduction of wool, appeared in Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. This book, a result of two international conferences held in Istanbul (2014) and Copenhagen (2015) devoted to the early textile production in Europe and the Mediterranean, aims to collect and investigate the combined evidence of textile and leather remains, tools, workplaces and textile iconography. The chapters discuss the recent developments in the research of ancient textiles and textile production, textile techniques suche as spinning, fabric and skin manufacture, use of textile tools and experimental textile production, textile techniques suche as spinning, fabric and skin manufacture, use of textile tools and experimental textile archaeology. The volume explores important cultural and social aspects of textile production, and its development. It includes comprehensive discussions of textiles, wood and bone implements from wetland settlements ; skin cloths ; specific clay, stone and bone tools for yarn and fabric making ; experiments with reconstructions of textile tools ; domestication of flax ; the social and symbolic role of textiles in the prehistory, and finally the limitations of available evidence.

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Les Incas et leurs prédécesseurs sont célèbres pour leurs céramiques, leur orfèvrerie et leurs imposantes constructions en pierre. Mais comment étaient-ils vêtus ? Ils recouraient aux textiles précieux non seulement pour s'habiller, mais aussi comme symboles de pouvoir et d'identité, en guise d'offrandes ou comme moyen d'échange. Le Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles présente dans ce catalogue une époustouflante collection de textiles et de plumes, ainsi que des bijoux en or, argent et coquillages. Lors de l'exposition s'est tenu un atelier, où des Péruviennes ont présenté les techniques de tissage traditionnelles. Quelque 200 pièces issues des collections du musée sont combinées à des objets provenant du Linden Museum de Stuttgart, du MAS d'Anvers et de collections privées belges.

Clothing and dress --- Textile fabrics --- Textile fibers --- Feather industry --- Social aspects --- Exhibitions --- Textile --- Art précolombien