...Woven textiles were highly prized commodities in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, to the extent that they were commonly used as tribute items and even as a standard of value in commercial exchange. This article discusses ways that textile production has been approached archaeologically in terms of both...

... agricultural community but was enmeshed in the textile production networks of Colchester and the Colne valley, and this distinguishes it from Terling, which, although only fifteen miles to the south, lacked any significant employment in textiles. More than this, Earls Colne stood only a day's journey from...

... into Norse cloth production is evaluated, along with consideration of arguments that Norse textiles and textile production strategies have been recovered from Paleo-Eskimo sites and Ancestral Inuit sites in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. Animal husbandry Cattle exchange rate Christianization Climatic...

... practised in first-century Tebtunis, including crafts and trades of various kind and state concessions. In particular, it investigates the internal functioning and administrative practices of the best-documented of these economic activities, which include textile production and the sale of salt...

... such as the town's grand parks. It shows how the town's textile production was accompanied by a strong sense of civic pride, some remarkable architectural triumphs and, perhaps surprising, an enthusiasm for public and private art. It is an extended and revised edition of Victorian Dundee: Image and Realities...

...This chapter discusses the economic contexts of fulling. Key questions here are the degree to which fulling in the Roman world must be seen as related to textile production, trade, or consumption, and what the evidence for fulling from Roman Italy reveals about the textile economies of the cities...

... samples have not been found, which corresponds perfectly to Kuhlmann's report that the town's importance waned in the 15th century. Interestingly, Akhmim is the only one of all the ancient weaving towns that has preserved its reputation as a textile production center up to the present day. textile...

... of women’s work in China’s handcraft textile production, this chapter argues for the importance of handwork performed by footbound daughters. Emphasizing the work girls performed before marriage, this chapter also considers the misdirections and omissions that have sidetracked queries about a practice...

... merchandising and advertising found its way in to every aspect of Southern life. Cooking and food preparation was revolutionized during this time and the invention of Coca-Cola can be traced back to the growing network of Southern stores. Textile production and the timber industry triggered economic change...

... Institutional Economics with its emphasis on transaction costs. The methodological impact of such new approaches is sketched in four fields, each of which is illustrated with epigraphic documentation: (1) production and growth, instancing technological advance, land exploitation and textile production; (2...

... in ancient Aztec society. Although they have not preserved well in the archaeological record, textiles are abundantly depicted in pictorial manuscripts, statuary, and ceramic figurines. Additionally, Colonial-period texts describe the gender associations between textile production and female identity...

... (nail-maker), Cornelia Venusta, and a clavarius, a freeborn, P. Aebutius. ⁵⁷ Occupations related to the stages in production of a finished textile product were the vestifici and vestarii. Finished cloth could be made into new garments by male...

... Euergetis tax registers textile production bakers66 bread dyeing fullers Kellis Oxyrhynchos Panopolis weaving Ephesos fullonicae ‘lanifricariae’ Ostia Pompeii professional associations workshops competition Marshall Alfred Medieval Europe productivity specialization apprenticeship...

..., for example textile production, were domestic and focused on women. Others, such as metalworking, were dependent on patronage with skills passed down the generations. Elite assemblages indicate how power and wealth were displayed and the impact of gift-giving. Penannular brooches likely projected group...

... production Theophrastus Varro viticulture water supplies and drainage acropolis Christianity Chrysanthina ‘golden flowers’ contest Dacia dying and fulling textiles epitaphs gold and goldsmiths aurarii linen workers linourgoi Philippi Saittai Lydia wool textile production Claudius emperor...