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The diverse developments in textile research of the last decade,
along with the increased recognition of the importance of textile
studies in adjacent fields, now merit a dedicated, full-length
publication entitled "Ancient Textile Production from an
Interdisciplinary Perspective: Humanities and Natural Sciences
Interwoven for our Understanding of Textiles". With this volume,
the authors and the editors wish to illustrate to the current
impact of textile archaeology on the scholarly perception of the
past (not limited to archaeology alone). The volume presents new
insights into the consumption, meaning, use and re-use of textiles
and dyes, all of which are topics of growing importance in textile
research. As indicated by the title, we demonstrate the continued
importance of interdisciplinarity by showcasing several
'interwoven' approaches to environmental and archaeological
remains, textual and iconographic sources, archaeological
experiments and ethnographic data, from a large area covering
Europe and the Mediterranean, Near East, Africa and Asia. The
chronological span is deliberately wide, including materials dating
from c. 6th millennium BCE to c. mid-14th century CE. The volume is
organised in four parts that aim to reflect the main areas of the
textile research in 2020. After the two introductory chapters (Part
I: About this Volume and Textile Research in 2020), follow two
chapters referring to dyes and dyeing technology in which
analytical and material-based studies are linked to contextual
sources (Part II: Interdisciplinarity of Colour: Dye Analyses and
Dyeing Technologies). The six chapters of Part III:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textile Tools discuss textiles and
textile production starting from the analyses of tools, whether
functional or as representative of technological developments or
user identity. Archaeological and cultural contexts as well as
textile traditions are the main topics of the six chapters in Part
IV: Traditions and Contexts: Fibres, Fabrics, Techniques, Uses and
Meanings. The two final chapters in Part V: Digital Tools refer to
the use of digital tools in textile research, presenting two
different case studies.
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