International audienceWritten sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles. The twenty-two chapters in the present volume offer the first comprehensive survey of this important material, with special attention to evidence for significant interconnections in textile terminology among languages and cultures, across space and time. For example, the Greek word for a long shirt, khiton , ki-to in Linear B, derives from a Semitic root, ktn . But the same root in Akkadian means linen, in Old Assyrian a garment made of wool, and perhaps cotton, in many modern languages. These and numerous other instances underscore the need for detailed studies of both...
This is a pre-print version of the articleTextiles form an important part of Māori culture, of inter...
This paper investigates key Japanese words related to textiles and their production in ancient Japan...
The vocabulary for talking about textiles has always been rich and evocative, but at the same time q...
International audienceWritten sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the...
The papers in this volume derive from the conference on textile terminology held in June 2014 at the...
The first published volume dedicated to the diachronic study of ancient textile terminologies gather...
One of the major challenges in costume and textile research is dealing with the vast number of terms...
"Textile Terminologies - from the Orient to the Mediterranean 1000 BC - AD 1000" (june 2014) The Dan...
International audienceTextile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a ...
Front and back covers Title page Copyright page Preface Acknowledgements Table of content
Abstract. Recent excavations at Çatalhöyük in Anatolia, Turkey have recovered remains of textiles, c...
Les textiles sont des biens de première nécessité et des objets de valeur en Mésopotamie, au Ier mil...
International audienceThe cuneiform private archives from Kaniš, dated to the beginning of the 2nd m...
Knowledge of textile history, including fibre, technology, tools etc, is essential and absolutely ne...
The problem of terminology and relationship is something I first came across when researching cloth ...
This is a pre-print version of the articleTextiles form an important part of Māori culture, of inter...
This paper investigates key Japanese words related to textiles and their production in ancient Japan...
The vocabulary for talking about textiles has always been rich and evocative, but at the same time q...
International audienceWritten sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the...
The papers in this volume derive from the conference on textile terminology held in June 2014 at the...
The first published volume dedicated to the diachronic study of ancient textile terminologies gather...
One of the major challenges in costume and textile research is dealing with the vast number of terms...
"Textile Terminologies - from the Orient to the Mediterranean 1000 BC - AD 1000" (june 2014) The Dan...
International audienceTextile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a ...
Front and back covers Title page Copyright page Preface Acknowledgements Table of content
Abstract. Recent excavations at Çatalhöyük in Anatolia, Turkey have recovered remains of textiles, c...
Les textiles sont des biens de première nécessité et des objets de valeur en Mésopotamie, au Ier mil...
International audienceThe cuneiform private archives from Kaniš, dated to the beginning of the 2nd m...
Knowledge of textile history, including fibre, technology, tools etc, is essential and absolutely ne...
The problem of terminology and relationship is something I first came across when researching cloth ...
This is a pre-print version of the articleTextiles form an important part of Māori culture, of inter...
This paper investigates key Japanese words related to textiles and their production in ancient Japan...
The vocabulary for talking about textiles has always been rich and evocative, but at the same time q...