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Jan 25, 2008 08:37

What is your current favorite book on medieval or Renaissance clothing or textiles? Why ( Read more... )

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moira_ramsay January 25 2008, 16:58:42 UTC
Genvieve had a wonderful list yesterday. Most of the books I have you already have save for one or two art books.

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kbhjs January 25 2008, 17:29:05 UTC
Not necissarily my favorite, but the one I'm reading right now and definately a GOOD read:

Tools for Textile Production from Birka and Hedeby: Excavations in the Black Earth 1990 - 1995 by Eva Anderson (Birka Studies volume 8) 2003

Its only about 150 pages, but it takes me a while cuz I'm one of those obnoxious people who highlight, annotate and paste yellow stickies all over their research books. Helps my critical thinking process and makes it easier for me to find and retain the info later...

Anywhoo, a really good resource which discusses excactly what the title suggests, talks in depth about the catalogue of extant finds of textile tools in those areas, and what those tools mean to textile production on a very large scope.

I like it :-)
my librarything needs updating too...

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Medieval Dress and Fashion - Margaret Scott hunrvogt January 25 2008, 18:52:36 UTC
Published by the British Library ISBN 0-7123-0675-7

Can acutally be read cover to cover. Covers 840-1570. Nice blend of art history and fashion theory.

From the sleeve:

"Illuminated manuscripts are widely regarded as beautiful works of art in their own right, but if examined closely, they also reveal a wealth of information about the people depicted in them..."

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nightbocci January 25 2008, 21:08:42 UTC
I didn't know our fathers were related. I love mine, too, but I do get tired of the poking he does to provoke political or religious arguments. Basically, he's from Texas; I'm from California. 'Nuff said.

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Yup. etaine_pommier January 25 2008, 21:40:16 UTC
Eeeeeezactly.

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aureellia January 26 2008, 03:41:44 UTC
I am NO help at all. I am reading Hald yet again. Mmmm Danish burials. I think The Medieval Tailor's Assistant is probably high on my list of influences this week. Because of your inquiry about your copy I have been looking over the book and applying it to my rudimentary understanding of fitting techniques. I also hauled out my mom's more modern books on fitting to see what applies and what doesn't.

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