Textiles of Ireland : Archaeology, Craft, Art
Heckett, Elizabeth Wincott2024
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Spanning the life’s work of archaeologist Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, Textiles of Ireland: Archaeology, craft, art is the first wide-ranging book on the archaeological textiles of Ireland published since 1989. The volume includes studies of cloth found in bogs, burials, hoards, sacked castles, docklands and fallen city walls. These include a mysterious weaving of horsehair, dating from before 800 BC; imprints of cloth wrappings on the weapons of a buried Viking warrior, and the exquisite liturgical textiles, inspired by the Book of Kells, embroidered in 1916 for the Honan Chapel at University College Cork. Including an overview of best practice used by archaeologists encountering textiles in the field, accompanying illustrations and imagery, glossary and charts, this book is essential reading for archaeologists, historians and anyone intrigued by the threads that bind Ireland’s past to its present.
Main title:
Textiles of Ireland : Archaeology, Craft, Art / E. Wincott Heckett ; edited by Mary Ann Williams.
Author:
Heckett, Elizabeth Wincott, authorWilliams, Mary Ann, editor
Imprint:
Cork City, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2024
Collation:
xv, 523 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white), photographs (colour) ; 25cm
Notes:
Includes bibliography and index.
Contents:
Foreword by Frances PritchardIntroduction by Frances PritchardElizabeth Wincott Heckett by Mary Ann WilliamsChart of Time PeriodsAncient Textiles and Patterns:Textiles in ArchaeologyClothing Patterns as Constructs of the Human Mind: Establishment and continuityPrehistoric Finds:Early Textile Finds in Ireland and ScotlandLate Bronze Age Textiles, Hair and Fibre Remains, and Spindle Whorls from Killymoon, County Tyrone, Northern IrelandA Late Bronze Age Horsehair Ornament from Cromaghs, ArmoyEarly Medieval Ireland:Beyond the Empire: An Irish mantle and cloakIrish Medieval Textiles AD 600–1200: ‘The slender thread over the hand of a skilled woman’The Lady of Cloonshannagh Bog: An Irish seventh-century AD bog body and the related textilesAn Elusive Cloth: Aspects of the archaeology of linen in northern Europe in the medieval and post-medieval periodThe Textiles Recovered from a Corn-Drying Kiln in Ballyvass, County KildareTextiles from the Viking Warrior Grave in Woodstown, County WaterfordA Tenth-Century Cloth from Bogstown, County MeathSome Silk and Wool Head-Coverings from Viking Dublin: Uses and origins – an enquiryIrish Viking Age Silks and Their Place in Hiberno-Norse SocietyFragments of Nålebinding from a Site Associated with St Audoen’s Church, Cornmarket, DublinMedieval Ireland:Cloth, Clothmakers and Trade: A European overviewÉlite and Military Scandinavian Dress as Portrayed in the Lewis Chess PiecesMedieval Textiles from Waterford CityTextiles, Animal Hair and Fibres from Skiddy’s Castle, Christ Church, CorkTextiles from the Excavation of the Cork City Wall at Grand ParadeThe Buttons from Barrack Street, CorkA Narrow Silk Band from Chancery Lane, DublinEarly Modern Ireland:An Irish ‘Shaggy Pile’ Fabric of the Sixteenth Century: An insular survival?The Margaret Fitzgerald Tomb Effigy: A late medieval headdress and gown in St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny Post-Medieval Ireland:Rural Clothing of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A catalogue of bog finds‘The apparel oft proclaims the man’: Late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century textiles from Bridge Street Upper, DublinThe Textiles from Kilcoe Castle, County CorkGold and Silver Decorative Metal Laces in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in Ireland and EuropeFinds of Seventeenth-Century Silk and KnittingFour Sixteenth-/Seventeenth-Century Textiles from Chancery Lane, DublinThe Textiles from Mackney Ringfort, County Galway‘Heavens’ embroidered cloths’: Textiles from the Honan Chapel, University College CorkCoda by Mary Ann Williams
ISBN:
9781782055716 (hbk)
Dewey class:
677.099936.15936.15 BS746.09415
Language:
English
Subject:
Needlework & fabric craftsTextile fabrics -- Analysis -- IrelandArchaeology -- Documentation -- IrelandDonegal - Textiles - History - ArchaeologyDonegal - Depiction of clothing - John Derricke's 'The Image of Irelande'Donegal - Elizabethan Court - Irish traditional dressDonegal - Traditional Old Irish dress - Shaggy pile mantlesDonegal - Textile finds from early modern Ireland - MapDonegal - Gweedore - Knockfola - Textile finds - Wool felt hat - Bog findsDonegal - Inishowen - Moville - Textile finds - Knitted woolen sockDonegal - Inver - Meenybraddan - Textile finds - Cloak made of wool friezeDonegal - Rural clothing - Bog finds - Sixteenth centuryDonegal - Inishowen - Muff - Textile finds - Wool kirtle and gown - Bog finds
BRN:
3426596