Textile References

These are some foundational references. The textile history literature has exploded in the last decade!

  • Barber, E.J.W. 1991. Prehistoric textiles. Princeton University Press, New Jersey.
  • Barber, E.J.W. 1994. Women’s work: the first 20,000 years: women, cloth and society in early times. Norton Press.
  • Battiscombe, C.F. (ed.) 1956. The relics of Saint Cuthbert. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Bellinger, L. 1945. The excavations at Dura-Europos. Final Report IV. Part II: the textiles. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut.
  • Birrell, V. 1957. The textile arts. Harper and Row, New York.
  • Broholm, H.C. and M. Hald. 1940. Costumes of the Bronze Age in Denmark. Contributions to the Archaeology and Textile History of the Bronze Age, Copenhagen.
  • Budny, M. and D. Tweddle. 1985. The early medieval textiles at Maaseik, Belgium. The Antiquaries Journal 65: 353-389.
  • Burnham, D.K. 1972. Coptic knitting: an ancient technique. Textile History 3:116-124.
  • Collingwood, P. 1974. The techniques of sprang: Plaiting on stretched threads. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York.
  • Collingwood, P. 1982. The techniques of tablet weaving. Watson-Guptill Publications, New York.
  • Collingwood, P. 1995. Review of: Masaka Kinoshita, Study of Archaic Braiding Techniqes in Japan. Textile History 26:260-261.
  • Crowfoot, E. 1966. Appendix III. Little Eriswell Anglo-Saxon cemetary: the textiles. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 59:29-32.
  • Crowfoot, E. 1983. The textiles. pp. 409-479. In: Bruce-Mitford, R. (ed.) The Sutton Hoo ship burial. Volume III. British Museum Publications, Ltd., London.
  • Crowfoot, E., F. Pritchard and K. Staniland. 1992. Medieval finds from excavations in London: 4. Textiles and clothing c.1150-c.1450. HMSO, London.
  • Crowfoot, G.M. 1939. The tablet-woven braids from the vestments of St. Cuthbert at Durham. The Antiquaries Journal 19:57-80.
  • Crowfoot, G.M. 1951. A medieval tablet-woven braid from a buckle found at Felixstowe. Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 25:202.
  • Crowfoot, G.M. 1950. Textiles of the Anglo-Saxon period in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 44:26-32.
  • Crowfoot, G.M. 1952. Anglo-Saxon tablet weaving. The Antiquaries Journal 32:189-191.
  • Crowfoot, G.M. 1954. Tablet-woven braid from a thirteenth-century site. The Antiquaries Journal 34:234-235.
  • Crowfoot, G.M. 1956. The textile and impressions. pp. 188-189. In. Thompson, F.H. Anglo-Saxon sites in Lincolnshire. The Antiquaries Journal 36:181-199.
  • de Dillmont, T.1996. The complete encyclopedia of needlework. Third edition. Running Press, Philadelphia.
  • Dendel, E.W. 1974. The basic book of fingerweaving. Simon and Schuster, New York.
  • d’Harcourt, R. 1962. Textiles of ancient Peru and their techniques. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
  • Earnshaw, P. The identification of lace.
  • Earnshaw, P. A dictionary of lace.
  • Earnshaw, P. 1983. Bobbin and needle laces: identification and care. B.T Batsford, Ltd. London.
  • Earnshaw, P. 1985. Lace in fasion: from the 16th to the 20th c. B.T. Batsford, Ltd. London.
  • Earnshaw, P. 1988. Threads of lace from source to sink. Gorse Publications, Guilford.
  • Ekestrand, G. 1982. Some early silk stockings in Sweden. Textile History 13:165-182.
  • Emery, I. 1966. The primary structure of fabrics. Textile Museum, Washington D.C.
  • Geijer, A. 1938. Birka III: Die textilfunde aus den grabern. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Uppsala.
  • Geijer, A. 1979. A history of textile art. Pasold Research Fund, London.
  • Geijer, A. 1980. The textile finds from Birka. Acta Archaeologia 50:209-222.
  • Graham-Campbell, J. 1980. Viking Artefacts: a select catalogue. British Museum Publications, Ltd., London.
  • Grierson, S., D.G. Duff and R.S. Sinclair. 1985. Natural dyes of the Scottish Highlands. Textile History 16:23-43.
  • Grierson, S. 1986. The colour cauldron, the history and use of natural dyes in Scotland. Mill Books, Perth.
  • Groves, S. 1966. The history of needlework tools and accessories. Country Life Books. Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., Middlesex.
  • Gudjonsson, E.E. 1977. Medieval Icelandic embroidery. In: Gervers, V. (ed.) Studies in textile history in memory of Harold B. Burnham. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
  • Gudjonsson, E.E. 1990. Some aspects of the Icelandic warp-weighted loom. Textile History 21:165-179.
  • Hagg, I. Viking women’s dress at Birka: a reconstruction by archaeological methods. Pp. 316-350 in: Harte, N.B. and K.G. Ponting (eds.) Cloth and clothing in Medieval Europe: essays in memory of Professor E.M. Carus-Wilson. Studies in Textile History 2. Heinemann Educational Books, London.
  • Hald, M. 1946. Ancient textile techniques in Egypt and Scandinavia: a comparative study. Acta Archaeologica 17:49-98.
  • Hald, M. 1980. Ancient Danish textiles from bogs and burials: a comparative study of costume and Iron Age textiles. National Museum of Denmark.
  • Hansen, E. 1990. Tablet weaving: history, techniques, colours, patterns. Hovedland Publishers, Hojbjerg, Denmark.
  • Harris, J. (ed.) 1993. Textiles, 5,000 years: an international history and illustrated survey. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
  • Harris, J. 1993. A survey of textiles techniques. pp. 15-51. In: Harris, J. (ed.) Textiles, 5,000 years: an international history and illustrated survey. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
  • Harte, N.B. and K.G. Ponting (eds.) 1983. Cloth and clothing in Medieval Europe: essays in memory of Pofessor E.M. Carus-Wilson. Studies in Textile History 2. Heinemann Educational Books, London.
  • Henshall, A. 1951. Note on an early stocking in sprang technique found near Micklegate Bar, York. Transactions of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society:?-?
  • Henshall, A. 1964. Five tablet-woven seal tags. Archaeological Journal 121:154-162.
  • Hoffmann, M. 1983. Beds and bedclothes in medieval Norway. Pp. 351-367 in: Harte, N.B. and K.G. Ponting (eds.) Cloth and clothing in Medieval Europe: essays in memory of Pofessor E.M. Carus-Wilson. Studies in Textile History 2. Heinemann Educational Books, London.
  • Jorgensen, L.B. 1986. The textile remains from Bolkilde. Antiquity 60:204-205. Jorgensen, L.B. 1992. North European textiles until AD 1000. Aarhus Univeristy Press.
  • King, M.E. 1965. Ancient Peruvian textiles from the collection of the Textile Museum, Washington D.C. The Museum of Primitive Art, New York.
  • Kraatz, A. 1988. Lace: History and fashion. Rizzoli International Publications Inc. New York.
  • Levey, S.M. 1969. Illustrations of the history of knitting selected from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Textile History 1:183-205.
  • Levey, S.M. 1983. Lace: a history. Victoria and Albert Museum.
  • Mitchell, D.M. 1989. ‘By your leave my masters’: British taste in table linen in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Textile History 20:49-77.
  • Muller-Christensen, S. 1977. Examples of mediaeval tablet-woven bands. pp. 232-236. In: Gervers, V. (ed.) Studies in textile history in memory of Harold B. Burnham. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
  • Nockert, M. 1983. A Scandinavian haberget? Pp. 100-107. In: Harte, N.B. and K.G. Ponting (eds.) Cloth and clothing in Medieval Europe: essays in memory of Pofessor E.M. Carus-Wilson. Studies in Textile History 2. Heinemann Educational Books, London.
  • Nockert, M. 1987. The Bocksten man’s costume. Textile History 18: 175-186.
  • Owen-Crocker, G.R. 1986. Dress in Anglo-Saxon England. Manchester University Press.
  • Owen-Crocker, G.R. 1987. Early Anglo-Saxon dress-the grave-goods and the guesswork. Textile History 18:147-157.
  • Paludan, L. 1995. Crochet: history and techniques. Interweave Press, Loveland, Colorado.
  • Pegg, B. 1990. Braidmaking. Whitstable Litho Printers Ltd., Whitstable, Kent.
  • Rutt, R. 1987. A history of hand knitting. Interweave Press, Loveland, Colorado.
  • Ryder, M.L. and T. Gabra-Sanders. 1992. Textiles from Fast Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland. Textile History 23:5-22. Skowronski, H. and M. Reddy. 1974. Sprang: Thread twisting: a creative textile technique. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York.
  • Staniland, K. 1991. Clothing provision and the Great Wardrobe in the mid-thirteenth century. Textile History 22:239-252.
  • Sutton, A.F. Order and fashion in clothes: the king, his household and the city of London at the end of the fifteenth century. Textile History 22:253-276.
  • Turnau, I. and K.G. Ponting. 1976. Knitted masterpieces. Textile History 7:7-59.
  • Turnau. I. 1983. The diffusion of knitting in medieval Europe. Pp. 368-390 in: Harte, N.B. and K.G. Ponting (eds.) Cloth and clothing in Medieval Europe: essays in memory of Pofessor E.M. Carus-Wilson. Studies in Textile History 2. Heinemann Educational Books, London.
  • Turnau, I. 1986. The history of peasant knitting in Europe: a framework for research. Textile History 17:167-180.
  • Turnau, I. 1991. The main centres of national fashion in eastern Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Textile History 22: 47-65.
  • van Reeseme, E.S. 1926. Contribution to the early history of textile technics. Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen.
  • VanStan, I. 1966. The fabrics of Peru. F. Lewis Publications, Ltd. Leigh-on-Sea, England.
  • Walton, P. 1989. The archaeology of York. Volume 17: The small finds. Fasc. 5 Textiles, cordage and raw fibre from 16-22 Coppergate. Council for British Arcaheology, London.
  • Walton, P. and J.P. Wild. (eds.) 1990. Textiles in northern archaeology, NESAT III: Textile symposium in York 6-9 May 1987. London.
  • Wilson, K. 1979. A history of textiles. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
  • Textile History 18(2) and 20(2) are devoted to medieval textiles.