Textiles and Perishable Materials

Bibliographic Data

ID23615109
AuthorsJohanna Banck-Burgess (0000-0002-9986-273X, Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages843-870
Publication date2018-09-10
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueOxford Handbook of the European Iron Age (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696826.013.6
OpenAlexW2948514333
ISBN9780199696826
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

This chapter challenges traditional views on Iron Age dress. Recent research has greatly enhanced our understanding of how textiles were manufactured in Iron Age Europe. The variety of qualities, textures, techniques, raw materials, colours, and cuts give insights into the detailed knowledge of the craftspeople involved. Textiles used for dress, blankets, or furniture fittings were appreciated not only for their appearance, but also for the quality of the work. In everyday life, their optical qualities were used to express and signal gender, social roles and status, while the labour expended on textiles found in wealthy burials underlines both the status of the deceased and the extent of conspicuous consumption in funerary rituals—for instance, for wrapping grave furniture and goods. The chapter also looks at experimental data showing how labour-intensive textile production was, and the types of clothing and accessories found in different archaeological contexts or depicted in visual representations.

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Art · Clothing · Consumption (sociology) · Economics · Geography · Production (economics) · Quality (philosophy) · Textile · Variety (cybernetics) · Visual arts · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical and Archaeological Studies

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