Dressing the Past 9781842172698, 1842172697

Minoan ladies, Scythian warriors, Roman and Sarmatian merchants, prehistoric weavers, gold sheet figures, Vikings, Medie

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Table of contents :
Content: Haute couture in the bronze age: a history of Minoan female costumes from Thera / Marie-Louise B. Nosch --
You are what you wear: Scythian costume as identity / Margarita Gleba --
"On the borders of east and west" : a reconstruction of Roman provincial and Barbarian dress in the Hungarian National Museum / Hona Hendzsel, Eszter Istvanovits, Valeria Kulscar [and others]. --
A weaver's voice: making reconstructions of Danish iron age textiles / Anna Norgaard --
Iconography and costume from the late iron age in Scandinavia / Ulla Mannering --
Tools, textile production and society in Viking age Birka / Eva B. Andersson --
Spotlight on medieval Scandinavian dress: sources and interpretations / Kathrine Vestergaard Pedersen --
Tailored criticism: the use of renaissance and baroque garments as sources of information / Cecilia Aneer --
Costume in a museological context: dealing with costume and dress from modern Danish history / Tove Engelhart Mathiassen and Helle Leilund --
Cut, stitch and fabrics: female dress in the past 200 years / Maj Ringgaard --
Ancient female costume: from silent cinema to Hollywood glamour / Annette Borrell.

Dressing the Past
 9781842172698, 1842172697

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