384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1979, this volume acts as a reference for the history textiles. It asks questions on the effect of technology on textiles, how did particular historical periods and locations expand or limit the possibilities for the manufacture of fabrics and how the textile history related to politics and economics, sociology and psychology, art and engineering, anthropology and... Read more
Some Relationships, Part I History of Materials and Methods, 2 Spinning and Raw Materials, 3 Fabric Construction, 4 Finish and Color for Textiles, Part II World Textiles, 5 Patterned Textiles of the Near East, 6 The Medieval Textile Industry in Southern Europe, 7 Textiles in the Far East, 8 Textiles in Northern Europe, 9 Textiles and Independence in Colonial America, 10 Industrialisation and Textiles in Nineteenth Century America, 11 Fabrics of the American Southwest, 12 Fabrics of South and Middle America
Biography
Kax Wilson. Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Chester.






