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Treasures from the Sea - Sea Silk and Shellfish Purple Dye in Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Treasures from the Sea - Sea Silk and Shellfish Purple Dye in Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Textiles Series, 30
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This interdisciplinary volume presents a collection of 17 papers
which treat the current state of research on two marine resources
used in ancient textile manufacture, shellfish purple dye and sea
silk. Purple dye is extracted from the glands of the molluscs
face=Cambria size=3> Hexaplex trunculus, Bolinus Brandaris
face=Cambria size=3> and Stramonita Haemastoma which through a
chemical reaction of photosynthesis produces hues ranging from dark
red to bluish purple colour. The importance of purple dye since
ancient times as a status symbol, a sign of royal and religious
power is well documented. Papers include the study of epigraphical
and historical sources, practical experiments as well as,
highlighting the presence of purple dye in the Mediterranean area
in select archaeological data. Less well known is sea silk, a
precious fibre derived from the tufts of the pen shell, Pinna
nobilis, with which the mollusc anchors itself to the seabed. These
tufts once cleaned and bleached take the aspect of golden thread.
Only a handful of artisans on Sardinia still have the knowledge of
how to work these fibres from the pen shell, a species protected by
the EU Habitats Directive, the knowledge having been transmitted
orally for generations. Papers include linguistic issues pertaining
to terminology, archaeological investigation, the study of the
physical and chemical properties of sea silk and the step-by-step
practical working of sea silk fibres. The comprehensive
multifaceted overview makes this book a valuable resource for
anyone interested in ancient textiles, dyes and textile technology.
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