Bibliography

Specialised editions

  • The entire series Ancient Textiles Series by Oxbow Books focuses on variegated aspects of textile archaeology.

  • The issues of Arachne.

  • Conference Proceedings such as Purpureae Vestes, NESAT (North European Symposium on Archaeological Textiles)

 

For more information, this is a list with important books and articles on archaeological textiles.

 

Relevant Titles

  • Alfaro C. and Karali L. (eds.) Purpurae Vestes II. Vestidos, Textiles y Tintes. Estudios sobre la producción de bienes de consumo en la Antigüedad. Actas del II Symposium International sobre Textiles y Tintes del Mediterráneo en el mundo antiguo. Atenas, 24 al 26 de noviembre, 2005, Universidad de Valencia.

  • Andersson Strand E., Gleba M., Mannering U., Munkholt C. and Ringgard M. (eds.) NESAT X North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X. Oxford, Oxbow Books.

  • Barber E. J. W. 1991 Prehistoric Textiles: the development of cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Age with special reference to the Aegean. Princeton University Press.

  • Bloesch H. and Mühletaler B. 1965 Stoffreste aus spätgeometrischen Gräbern südlich des Westtores von Eretria (Herbst-grabung 1965), Antike Kunst, 10, 130-132.

  • Blümner H. 1912 Technologie und Terminologie der Gewerbe und Künste bei den Griechen und Römern. Hildesheim, Ods.

  • Broudy E. 1993 The Book of Looms. A History of the Hand Loom from Ancient Times to the Present. Brown University Press (1979).

  • Burke B. 2010 From Minos to Midas. Ancient Cloth Production in the Aegean and in Anatolia. Oxford, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series vol. 7.

  • Cardon D. 2003 Le monde des teintures naturelles. Paris, Éditions Belin.

  • Cleland L. 2005 The Brauron Clothing Catalogues. Text, Analysis, Glossary and Translation. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports.

  • Cutler J., Andersson Strand E. and Nosch M. – L. 2013 Textile Production in Quartier Mu. In J. C. Poursat (ed.) Vie quotidienne et techniques au Minoen Moyen II, Études Crétoises 34. École Française d’Athènes, 95-118.

  • Dal Pra P. 2003 Μερικές συμβουλές σε περίπτωση ανακάλυψης αρχαιολογικού υφάσματος, Αράχνη, 1, 12-14.

  • Descamps S., Moulhérat C., Spantidaki S. and Beugnot C. 2015 La production textile en Grèce au Ve siècle avant notre ère. Deux nouveaux témoignages attiques conservés au Musée du Louvre, Technè, 41, 71-77.

  • Drougou S. 1987 Το ύφασμα της Βεργίνας. Πρώτες παρατηρήσεις. In Αμητός. Τιμητικός τόμος για τον καθηγητή Μανόλη Ανδρόνικο. Θεσσαλονίκη, 303-316.

  • Emery I. 1994 The Primary Structures of Fabrics. London.

  • Flury-Lemberg M. 1988 The Fabrics from the Royal Tomb in Vergina. In M., Flury-Lemberg  (ed.) Textile Conservation and Research. Abegg Stiftung Bern, 234-237.

  • Forbes R. J. 1956 Studies in ancient technology Vol. IV. Leiden.

  • Gillis C. and B. Nosch  M. - L.  (eds.) 2007 Ancient Textiles. Production, Craft and Society. Oxford, Oxbow Books.

  • Gleba M. 2008 Textile production in pre-Roman Italy. Oxford, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series 4.

  • Gleba M. and Manerring U. (eds.) 2012 Textiles and Textile Production in Europe. From Prehistory to AD 400. Oxford, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series 11.

  • Hoffmann M. 1983 The Warp-Weighted Loom: Studies in the History and Technology of an Ancient Implement. Oslo University (1964).

  • Hundt H. J. 1969 Über Vorgeschichtliche Seidenfunde, Jahrbuch des römisch-germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 16, 59-71.

  • Kardara Chr. 1974 Βαφή, βαφεία και βαφαί κατά την αρχαιότητα, Hesperia, 43, no. 4, 447-453.

  • Lee M. M. 2015 Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press.

  • Loftus A. 1998-2000 The myth of male weaving. Textile production in classical Athens, Archaeological News 23, 11-31.

  • Losfeld G. 1991 Essai sur le costume grec. Paris, Éditions de Boccard.

  • Margariti C., Protopapas S. and Orphanou V. 2011 Recent analyses of the excavated textile find from Grave 35 HTR73, Kerameikos cemetery, Athens, Creece, Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 522-527.

  • Margariti C., Protopapas S., Allen Norman and Vishnyakov V. 2013 Identification of purple dye from molluscs on an excavated textile by non-destructive analytical techniques, Dyes and Pigments 96, 774-780.

  • Margariti C. and Papadimitriou A. 2015 Material Identification and Technological Analysis of a 7th-century BC Excavated Textile from Argos, Greece, Archaeological Textiles Review 56, 14-23.

  • Mårtensson L., Nosch M. – L. and Andersson Strand E. 2009 Shape of Things: Understanding a Loom Weight, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 28, 373-398.

  • Moraitou G. 2001 Examination of an Archaic Textile from Vergina. In Y. Bassiakos, E. Aloupi and Y. Fakorellis (eds.) Archaeometry issues in Greek prehistory and antiquity. Athens, The Hellenic Society of Archaeometry and the Society of Messenian Archaeological Studies.

  • Moraitou G. 2007 The Funeral Pyre Textile from Royal Tomb II in Vergina. Report on the 1997 Documentation, Treatment and Display. Archaeological Textiles Newsletter 44, 5-10.

  • Moulhérat C. 1999 Le microscope électronique et le microscope métallographique inversé, nouveaux outils au service de l’identification des fibres minéralisées par les produits de corrosion métallique. In H., Meyer-Roudet  (ed.) À la recherche du métal perdu, nouvelles technologies dans la restauration des métaux archéologiques. Paris, Editions Errance, 63-64.

  • Moulhérat C. 2005 La minéralisation, L’Archéologue, 77, 13.

  • Moulhérat C. 2008 L’archéologie des textiles. Une nouvelle discipline au service de la connaissance et de la compréhension des sociétés humaines, L’actualité chimique 318, 30-34.

  • Moulhérat C. and Spantidaki Y. 2007 Preliminary results from the textiles discovered in Santorini. In A. Rast-Eicher and R. Windler  (eds.) Archäologische Textilfunde. NESAT IX, North European Symposium for archaeological Textiles. Braunwald, 18-20 Mai 2005. Ennenda, 49-52.

  • Mylonas G. E. 1954 The Finest Proto-Attic Vase and the Oldest Greek Textile: Unique Discoveries from the Cemetery of Eleusis, The Illustrated London News, 13.11.1954, 842.

  • Nosch M. – L. and Andersson E. 2016 Tools, textiles and contexts. Investigating textile production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. Oxbow Books.

  • Panagiotakopulu E. 1997 A lepidopterus Cocoon from Thera and Evidence for Silk in the Aegean Bronze Age, Antiquity, 71, 420-429.

  • Pekridou - Goreck, A. 1989 Mode im antiken Griechenland. München, Verlag C. H. Beck.

  • Pritchard F. and Wild J. P. (eds.) 2005 Northern Archaeological Textiles. NESAT VII. Proceedings of the Northern European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles in Edinburgh, 5-7th May 1999. Oxbow Books.

  • Popham M. R., Touloupa E. and Sackett L. H. 1982 The Hero of Lefkandi, Antiquity, 56, 169-174.

  • Retsa M., Moraitou S. and Kousoulou R. 2012 Ανασκαφικά υφασμάτινα κατάλοιπα στον ελλαδικό χώρο: μύθος ή πραγματικότητα. Η διατήρηση και η συντήρησή τους, Archaeology & Arts, online www.archaiologia.gr.

  • Sacket L. H. and Carrington-Smith J. 1980 Cloth remains. In M. R. Popham, L.H. Sackett and P. G. Themelis (eds.) Lefkandi I: The Iron Age. The Settlement, The Cemeteries, in The British School of Archaeology at Athens, Supplementary volume 1.1. Oxford, 227-229.

  • Seiler-Baldinger A. 1994 Textiles. A Classification of Techniques. Sminthonian Institution Press.

  • Spantidaki S. 2014 Embellishment techniques of Classical Greek Textiles. In M. Harlow and M. - L. Nosch (eds.), Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress: an Interdisciplinary Anthology. Oxford, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series 19, 207-235.

  • Spantidaki S. 2016 Textile Production in Classical Athens. Oxford, Oxbow Books, Ancient Τextiles Series 27.

  • Spantidaki S. and Moulhérat C. 2015 La ville d’Akrotiri : une source exceptionnelle d’information sur l’activité textile au milieu du second millénaire au cœur du monde égéen, Technè 41, 19-24.

  • Spantidaki Y. 2004 Αρχαία υφάσματα: πρόσφατες ανακαλύψεις υφασμάτων του 5ου αιώνα στην Αττική, CORPUS, 66, 66-73.

  • Spantidaki Y. 2005 Είναι η κατασκευή των υφασμάτων απλή υπόθεση; Αρχαιολογία και Τέχνες, 95, 74-80.

  • Spantidaki Y. and Moulhérat C. 2012 Greece. In M. Gleba, U. Mannering (eds.) Textiles and Textile Production in Europe: From Prehistory to AD 400. Oxford, Oxbow Books, Ancient Textiles Series 11, 185-200.

  • Tzachili I. 1990 All Important yet Elusive: Looking for Evidence of Cloth-Making at Akrotiri. In D. A. Hardy (ed.) Thera and the Aegean World III (vol. 1), Proceedings of the Third International Congress, Santorini, Greece, 3-9 September 1989. London, The Thera Foundation, 380-389.

  • Tzachili I. 1997 Υφαντική και Υφάντρες στο Προϊστορικό Αιγαίο 2000-1000 π.Χ. Herakleion, Crete University Press.
  • Tzachili I. and Zimi E. (eds.) 2012 Textiles and Dress in Greece and the Roman East: A Technological and Social Approach. Proceedings of a Conference held at the Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management of the University of Peloponnese in Kalamata in collaboration with the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete on March 18-19, 2011. Athens, Ta Pragmata Editions.

  • De Wild D. 2001 Textile Remains on Vases from Tomb 1 and Tomb 2C. In E. Karantzali (ed.) The Mycenaean Cemetery at Pylona on Rhodes. British Archaeological Reports, 114-116.

  • Wilson L. 1930 Loomweights. In D. Robinson (ed.) Excavations at Olynthus, Part II. Architecture and Sculpture, Houses and other Buildings. London, 118-128.

  • Zissis V. G. 1955 Βαμβακερά, καννάβινα και λινά υφάσματα του 5ου π.Χ. αιώνος. Αποδίπλωσις και συντήρησις αυτών. Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών 29, 587-593.