The Roman Textile Industry and Its Influence

Résumé du livre

Textiles were a hugely important Roman industry, yet because their perishable nature, only fragments remain. The history of the Roman textile industry is built up in large part by the detailed study of surviving fragments as these twenty-two essays show. They range across the Roman world from the dry sands of Egypt, to the Atlantic coast, the northern frontiers and beyond, with information about everyday clothing and exotically embroidered fabrics, about contemporary textiles from north of the frontiers in Europe, and about the influences of Roman fashions in dress and of Roman practice in weaving techniques in later times. Written by friends and colleagues, they are offered as a tribute to John Peter Wild whose own studies of Roman textiles have been the inspiration of so much recent work.