Dressing the past

230 Pages·2008·27.59 MB·English

by  Munkholt

Dressing the Past
Margarita Gleba
Cherine Munkholt
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Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK

© Oxbow Books and the individual authors, 2008 Reprinted 2011
9781782974727

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Cover designed by Marianne Bloch Hansen.

Ancient Textiles Series Editorial Committee:
Eva Andersson, Margarita Gleba, Ulla Mannering
and Marie-Louise Nosch
Printed in Great Britain by
Information Press, Eynsham, Oxfordshire
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Figures
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 - Haute Couture in the Bronze Age: A History of Minoan Female
Costumes from Thera
Chapter 2 - You Are What You Wear: Scythian Costume as Identity
Chapter 3 - “On the Borders of East and West”: A Reconstruction of Roman
Provincial and Barbarian Dress in the Hungarian National Museum
Chapter 4 - A Weaver’s Voice: Making Reconstructions of Danish Iron Age
Textiles
Chapter 5 - Iconography and Costume from the Late Iron Age in Scandinavia
Chapter 6 - Tools, Textile Production and Society in Viking Age Birka
Chapter 7 - Spotlight on Medieval Scandinavian Dress: Sources and
Interpretations
Chapter 8 - Tailored Criticism: The Use of Renaissance and Baroque
Garments as Sources of Information
Chapter 9 - Costume in a Museological Context: Dealing with Costume and
Dress from Modern Danish History
Chapter 10 - Cut, Stitch and Fabrics: Female Dress in the Past 200 Years
Chapter 11 - Ancient Female Costume: From Silent Cinema to Hollywood
Glamour
Table of Figures
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Eva B. Andersson. Archaeologist specialized in North European archaeology.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of Lund (Sweden). Her special area
of study is textile production during the Iron and Viking Ages in Scandinavia.
She is a project manager at the Danish National Foundation’s Centre for Textile
Research at the University of Copenhagen.
Cecilia Aneer. Teaches dress history at undergraduate courses in textile history.
At present she is preparing for her Ph.D. in Textile Studies at Uppsala
University, Sweden. Her research is in the field of tailoring techniques and
clothing manufacture with a special interest in the Renaissance and Baroque
periods.
Annette Borrell. M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Southern
Denmark. She is the Administrative Officer at the Danish National Research
Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research at Copenhagen University. She is
interested in film and costume and has lectured on the subject.
Margarita Gleba. Archaeologist specialized in pre-Roman Italian archaeology.
She has worked on excavations in Italy, Turkey and Ukraine. She received her
Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College (USA). She is a project manager and
postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Textile Research, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark. Her special area of study is the archaeology of textile
production.
Ilona Hendzsel. Textile designer and teacher of design, graduated from Moholy-
Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary. She teaches textile
design at Zichy Mihály Secondary School of Applied Arts, Kaposvár and works
as a designer and producer of home fabrics.
Eszter Istvánovits. Történelemtudományok kandidátusa (Ph.D. Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, Budapest). She is archaeologist and scientific secretary at
the Jósa András Museum (Nyíregyháza, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County,
Hungary). Her main fields of research are the Barbarians of the Roman Age in
the Carpathian Basin, Early Migration Period and archaeology of the Upper