Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times more books like this

by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

2500 years ago, the women of Athens slaved at home, virtual prisoners of their husbands, expected to provide the cloth and clothing for their family. 4000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, there was a very different picture: respectable women were in business, weaving textiles at home to be sold abroad for gold and silver. Going back even further, ...

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Egyptian Textiles more books like this

by Rosalind Hall

'She who was irch in fine lineen, who loved clothes, lies in the cast-off garment of yesterday.' So ends an ancient Egyptian funeral lament, and indeed these textiles have frequently become the neglected cast-off rags of today, lying undiscovered in museum basements. This book attempts to rectify the situation by assessing the archaeological ...

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Ancient Textiles from Nubia more books like this

by Bruce Williams, Christa C. Mayer Thurman

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Textiles of Late Antiquity more books like this

by Annemarie Stauffer

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Early decorative textiles more books like this

by Wolfgang Fritz Volbach

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Archaeological textiles : 1974 proceedings more books like this

by Irene Emery, Patricia L. Fiske, D.C.) Textile Museum (Washington

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