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Textile Manufacture in the Northern Roman Provinces (Paperback)
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Textile Manufacture in the Northern Roman Provinces (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
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Dr Wild has written an account of textile manufacture in the
northern and western Roman provinces. He begins with a chapter on
ancient textile fibres and their sources including an account of
Roman production of wool, silk imports, flax and hemp and
experimental fibres such as asbestos. Then he studies methods of
fibre preparation and spinning and the tools used by the ancient
craftsmen. The main body of Dr Wild's survey is a detailed account
of the evidence, archaeological and literary, for Roman looms, and
an examination of surviving textiles. The final section considers
the problems of Roman industrial cloth-finishing and dyeing. The
text is supported by tables of implements, two catalogues of
textiles and over 100 illustrations. This is an important work of
reference on a major, but neglected, aspect of Roman technology and
economics.
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