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Publisher: ILO
Keywords: industries, labour, clothing, practices, tripartite, meeting, geneva, discussion, report, textiles, footwear, leather
Number of Pages: 119
Published: 2010-06-16
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9221122026
ISBN-13: 9789221122029

Author: Robin NethertonRobin Netherton; Gale R. Owen-Croc
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: textiles, clothing, medieval
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-04-19
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1843832917
ISBN-13: 9781843832911

The third volume of this pioneering series explores the manufacture and trade of textiles and their practical, fashionable, and symbolic uses. Papers include in-depth studies and cross-genre scholarship representing such fields as social history, economics, art history, archaeology and literature, as well as the reconstruction of textile-making techniques. They range over England, Flanders, France, Germany, and Spain from the seventh to the sixteenth centuries, and address such topics as soft furnishings, ecclesiastical vestments, the economics of the wool trade, the making and use of narrow w

Authors:Robin Netherton, Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crock
Publisher: Boydell Press
Keywords: textiles, clothing, medieval
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2008-04-17
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 1843833662
ISBN-13: 9781843833666

The fourth volume of this landmark series features a special focus on headdress, with papers analysing women’s turbans in fifteenth-century French manuscript paintings; the changing meaning of the term cuff; the spread of wimple from England to Southern Italy; and a surviving embroidered linen cap attributed to Saint Birgitta of Sweden. Northern European dress and textiles are further explored in papers on archaeological textiles from medieval towns in Finland, Norway, and Sweden; the construction of gowns excavated at Herjolfsnes, Greenland; and references to scarlet clothing in Iceland

Author: Robert Ro
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: history, global, clothing
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-09-16
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 074563186X
ISBN-13: 9780745631868

In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compelling account and analysis of the process by which this has come about. At the same time it takes seriously those places where, for whatever reason, this process has not occurred, or has been reversed, and provides explanations for these developments. The first part of this story recounts how the cultural, political and economic power of Europe and, from the later nineteenth century North America, has provided an impetus for the adoption of whateve

Author: Thor Ewing
Publisher: Tempus
Keywords: clothing, viking
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0752435876
ISBN-13: 9780752435879

Contrary to popular myth, the Vikings had a reputation for neatness and their fashions were copied far beyond the realms of Scandinavia. Those who could afford to displayed a love of fine clothes made from silks, from lightweight worsteds in subtly woven twills, and from the finest of linens. This accessible new book is the first to tackle the question of what the Vikings wore, drawing on evidence from art and archaeology, literature, and linguistics to arrive at a fresh understanding of the nature of Viking clothing, covering rich and poor, men and women across Scandinavia. It includes an ove

Author: Chloe Colchester
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: pacific, clothing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1859736718
ISBN-13: 9781859736715

This book examines the multiple histories of cloth and clothing in the Pacific. The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of Pacific fashion stylists as well as cloth producers who are acutely aware of how globalization impacts on identity. Typically, their work integrates both Pacific and introduced forms. This book compares these synthetic forms with others that developed in the region during the colonial period, when foreign cloth was typically adapted and incorporated within indigenous textile systems, and shows how cloth is central to the transmission of identity as well as a ve

Author: Lisa Easterling
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Keywords: acorn, clothing
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2007-06
List price: $20.71
ISBN-10: 1403494053
ISBN-13: 9781403494054

Through stunning photographs and simple text, books in this series introduce children to elements of our global community. In this title, children learn about clothing around the world, including clothing that protects the body in hot and cold climates, cl