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This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material
culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials
and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them.
Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies,
Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary
African silk, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist
contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded
in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. Employing
methods of artifact analysis, microscopy, and participant
observation, the contributors provide a new lens on material
culture and its relationship to cultural meaning.
This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex,
colourful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A
wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from
depictions such as sculpture, vase painting, figurines, reliefs and
mosaics. Commonly represented in clothing, textiles are also
present in furnishings and through the processes of textile
production. The challenge for anyone analysing ancient iconography
is determining how we interpret what we see. As preserved textiles
rarely survive in comparable forms, we must consider the extent to
which representations of textiles reflect reality, and critically
evaluate the sources. Images are not simple replicas or photographs
of reality. Instead, iconography draws on select elements from the
surrounding world that were recognisable to the ancient audience,
and reveal the perceptions, ideologies, and ideas of the society in
which they were produced. Through examining the durable evidence,
this anthology reveals the ephemeral world of textiles and their
integral role in the daily life, cult and economy of the ancient
Mediterranean.
This pioneering volume brings together specialists from
contemporary craft and industry and from archaeology to examine
both the material properties and the cultural dimensions of
leather. The common occurrence of animal skin products through
time, whether vegetable tanned leather, parchment, vellum,
fat-cured skins or rawhide attest to its enduring versatility,
utility and desirability. Typically grouped together as 'leather',
the versatility of these materials is remarkable: they can be soft
and supple like a textile, firm and rigid like a basket, or hard
and watertight like a pot or gourd. This volume challenges a simple
utilitarian or functional approach to leather; in a world of
technological and material choices, leather is appropriated
according to its suitability on many levels. In addressing the
question Why leather? authors of this volume present new
perspectives on the material and cultural dimensions of leather.
Their wide-ranging research includes the microscopic examination of
skin structure and its influence on behaviour, experiments on
medieval cuir bouilli armour, the guild secrets behind the leather
components of nineteenth-century industrial machinery, new research
on ancient Egyptian chariot leather, the relationship between wine
and wineskins, and the making of contemporary leather wall
covering. The Archaeological Leather Group promotes the study of
leather and leather objects from archaeological and other contexts.
The Group aims to provide a focus for the investigation of leather,
and to develop new research by bringing together a broad range of
knowledge and experience both practical and academic. Leather is
explored through its manufacture, function, context, processing,
recording, conservation, care and curation. Members come from a
variety of disciplines and include archaeologists, historians,
conservators, artefact specialists, materials engineers and leather
workers. The Group normally meets twice a year and organises one
scholarly meeting in the spring, and visits a museum, working
tannery or other place of leather interest in the autumn. The
Archaeological Leather Group Newsletter is published twice a year,
and the website maintains a comprehensive and expanding leather
bibliography.
This pioneering volume brings together specialists from
contemporary craft and industry and from archaeology to examine
both the material properties and the cultural dimensions of
leather. The common occurrence of animal skin products through
time, whether vegetable tanned leather, parchment, vellum,
fat-cured skins or rawhide attest to its enduring versatility,
utility and desirability. Typically grouped together as 'leather',
the versatility of these materials is remarkable: they can be soft
and supple like a textile, firm and rigid like a basket, or hard
and watertight like a pot or gourd. This volume challenges a simple
utilitarian or functional approach to leather; in a world of
technological and material choices, leather is appropriated
according to its suitability on many levels. In addressing the
question Why leather? authors of this volume present new
perspectives on the material and cultural dimensions of leather.
Their wide-ranging research includes the microscopic examination of
skin structure and its influence on behaviour, experiments on
medieval cuir bouilli armour, the guild secrets behind the leather
components of nineteenth-century industrial machinery, new research
on ancient Egyptian chariot leather, the relationship between wine
and wineskins, and the making of contemporary leather wall
covering.
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