Ancient Textiles, Modern Science: Re-creating Techniques Through Experiment: Proceedings of the First and Second European Textil

This proceedings volume presented by Hopkins (textile history) covers a series of lectures given at the European Textile Forum conferences of 2009 and 2010. Chapters cover a variety of materials including spindles, yarn, woven tablets, dyes, and fully finished clothing. Contributors take an archaeological perspective to trace the historical development of textile technologies from fragmentary artifacts collections. Reconstructive experiments support many of the analyses, and the details of modern technological probing and statistics are elucidated for each study. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)