Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 21:16:38 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: micha...@dbbcdist.com
To: joa...@surewest.net
Subject: Textiles Offers
THE DAVID BROWN BOOK COMPANY
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Textiles Offers
Dear Joan Jurancich
To celebrate the upcoming publication of âModa
a Firenze 1540 1580 Cosimo I de Medici's
Styleâ we have put together a llist of our
best Textiles offers. The reductions encompass a
wide geographical area and range from the
Ancient World right up to the twentieth century
so there should be something of interest for
everyone. Titles include âAncient Textilesâ,
âViking: Dress, Clothing, Klaer, Garmentâ,
âTextiles from the Andesâ, and âMedieval
Garments Reconstructedâ. These brilliant
offers are available to you until the end of
November so order today to avoid disappointment!
The much anticipated âModa a Firenze 1540
11580 Cosimo I de Medici's Styleâ, a male
companion to the title concerning female dress
of the same period, offers an illuminating
examination and discussion of the public and
official image of Cosimo throughout his thirty
year reign. The book is packed full of plates
and, complete with thirty patterns, offers the
reader the opportunity to recreate some of these
designs themselves. We are very pleased to be
able to offer you a pre-publication price of $99 for this beautiful title.
In conjunction with this new title, we have also
reduced âModa a Firenze 1540-1580: Lo Stile di
Eleonora di Toledo e la sua influenzaâ giving
those who missed it the first time another
chance to pick up this title at a bargain price.
This volume presents a study of
sixteenth-century Italian fashion, costume, and
the influence of Eleanor of Toledo on the
Italian court, following her marriage into the Medici family.
I hope that you find something which appeals to you.
With best wishes,
Michaela Goff
Marketing Executive
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/75083/mid/25998>Moda
a Firenze 1540-1580: Cosimo I de Medici's Style
by Roberta Orsi-Landini
Roberta Orsi Landini uses material from the
Florentine state archives to reconstruct Cosimo
I de Medici's wardrobe, continuing her earlier
work on Eleonora di Toledo. Cosimo consciously
constructed his public and official image, and
Orsi Landini follows his stylistic evolution
over his thirty-year reign, including colors,
materials and decorations. The author also
examines manufacturing, especially silk
producers, while a final chapter is ...
US$99.00
Hardback. US$129.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/48785/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/48785/mid/25998>Moda
a Firenze 1540-1580: Lo Stile di Eleonora di Toledo e la sua influenza
by Roberta Orsi Landini and Bruna Niccoli
Italian and English texts, including: Eleonora
di Toledo: Duchess of Tuscany in history and
legend; Eleonora's style; Costume in the Medici
ceremonies; The clothes that have survived; The
individual garments; Tailors and embroiderers;
Florentine textile production; The wardrobe of
Eleonora di Toledo. 252p, 120 plates, mostly in
color (Edizioni Polistampa 2005, reprinting 2007)
Hardback. US$120.00, US$95.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/75536/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/75536/mid/25998>Textile
History and the Military
edited by Marie Louise Nosch and Katrina Honeyman
The issue consists of twelve papers which were
originally delivered at the International
Conference on Military and Textiles in 2008.
The important but frequently overlooked
connection between textiles and the military is
addressed in this supplementary issue by
academic historians, museum curators and
conservators, archaeologists and military
experts from a range of disciplines and fields
of study. Between them the twelve articles ...
Paperback. US$23.00, US$18.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/86538/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/86538/mid/25998>North
European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X
edited by Eva B. Andersson Strand, Margarita
Gleba, Ulla Mannering, Cherine Munkholt and Maj Ringgard
The NESAT symposium has grown from the first
meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23
scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that
took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually
all areas of Europe represented. The 50 papers
from the conference presented here show the
vibrance of the study of archaeological textiles
today. Examples studied come from the Bronze
Age, Neolithic, the Iron Age, Roman, Viking, the
Middle Ages and post-Medieval, ...
Hardback. US$96.00, US$77.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/66934/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/66934/mid/25998>The
Inventory of King Henry VIII: Textiles and Dress
edited by Maria Hayward and Philip Ward
The Inventory is not only a catalogue of
magnificence but also a key text for evaluating
the successes and failures of the Tudor
monarchy. Henry VIII had extravagant ideas of
image and authority and loved his possessions,
amongst which where over 2,000 pieces of
tapestry, 2,028 items of gold and silver plate
and 41 growns. Although he left the country with
heavy debts and an empty exchequer, he was far
from bankrupting the monarchy as some ...
Hardback. US$203.00, US$162.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/86932/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/86932/mid/25998>The
Medieval Broadcloth: Changing Trends in Fashions, Manufacturing and Consumption
edited by Kathrine Vestergard Pedersen and Marie-Louise B. Nosch
The eight papers presented here provide a useful
introduction to medieval broadcloth, and an
up-to-date synthesis of current research. The
word broadcloth is nowadays used as an overall
term for the woven textiles mass-produced and
exported all over Europe. It was first produced
in Flanders as a luxurious cloth from the 11th
century and throughout the medieval period.
Broadcloth is the English term; it isLaken in Flemish, ...
Paperback. US$50.00, US$30.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/67558/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/67558/mid/25998>Medieval
Garments Reconstructed: Norse Clothing Patterns
by Else Ostergard, Anna Norgard and Lilli
Fransen, translated by Shelly Nordtorp-Madson
This volume begins with a short introduction by
Else Ostergàrd to the amazing finds of garments
from the Norse settlement of Herjolfnes in
Greenland. It then features chapters on
technique - production of the thread, dyeing,
weaving techniques, cutting and sewing - by Anna
Norgàrd. Also included are measurements and
drawings of garments, hoods, and stockings, with
sewing instructions, by Lilli Fransen. A practical guide to making your ...
Hardback. US$50.00, US$40.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/79981/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/79981/mid/25998>Viking:
Dress, Clothing, Klaer, Garment
by Nille Glaesel
From Nille Glaesel's Introduction:
For many years I have worked with textiles,
making Viking clothes and shoes. I have also
tanned leather and worked with a reconstruction
of Osebergrevlene for the Viking Museum, Lofotr.
I am often asked about patterns for the Viking's
beautiful garments. It is through this work that
I have seen the need for a book which makes it
easy for anyone to sew their very own Viking costumes, based on the ...
Hardback. US$120.00, US$96.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/67637/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/67637/mid/25998>Textiles
from the Andes
by Penny Dransart and Helen Wolfe
This is the first time the British Museum's
major collection of Peruvian and other early
Andean textiles is being published as a group.
Included are rare and exquisite pieces, many of
great iconographic and technical importance,
ranging in date from the Paracas to the Inka and
Colonial periods, 200 BC to the late 18th
century AD. Examples of contemporary Andean
textiles will complement the early pieces and
illustrate the continuation of weaving ...
Paperback. US$22.95, US$18.50
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/83798/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/83798/mid/25998>Textile
Production in Pre-Roman Italy
by Margarita Gleba
Older than both ceramics and metallurgy, textile
production is a technology which reveals much
about prehistoric social and economic
development. This book examines the
archaeological evidence for textile production
in Italy from the transition between the Bronze
Age and Early Iron Ages until the Roman
expansion (1000-400 BCE), and sheds light on
both the process of technological development
and the emergence of large urban centres with ...
Hardback. US$70.00, US$50.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/44861/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/44861/mid/25998>Ancient
Textiles: Production, Craft and Society
edited by Marie-Louise B. Nosch and Carole Gillis
An understanding of textiles and the role they
played in the past is important for anyone
interested in past societies. Textiles served -
and in fact still do - as both functional and
symbolic items. The evidence for ancient
textiles in Europe is split quite definitely
along a north-south divide, with an abundance of
actual examples in the north, but precious
little in the south, where indirect evidence
comes from such things as vase painting and ...
Hardback. US$70.00, US$40.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/90787/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/90787/mid/25998>War
and Worship: Textiles from 3rd to 4th-century AD
Weapon Deposits in Denmark and Northern Germany
by Susan Möller-Wiering
War and Worship concerns textile deposits from
the bog sites of Thorsberg in Germany and Nydam,
Vimose and Illerup Ådal in Denmark. All four
sites are well-known for containing a
substantial amount of archaeological materials,
particularly weapons, but they also contain, as
integral parts of the weapon deposits, a smaller
number of preserved textiles, which nevertheless
constitute outstanding assemblages. With the exception of ...
Hardback. US$60.00, US$40.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/88281/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/88281/mid/25998>From
Minos to Midas: Ancient Cloth Production in the Aegean and in Anatolia
by Brendan Burke
Textile production was of greater value and
importance to people in the past than any other
social craft activity; everyone depended on
cloth. As with other craft goods, such as
pottery, metal objects, or ivory carving, the
large-scale production and exchange of textiles
required specialization and some degree of centralization.
This book takes an explicitly economic approach
to textile production, focusing on regional centers, most ...
Hardback. US$60.00, US$48.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/158765/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/158765/mid/25998>Frühbyzantinische
textile Kopfbedeckungen: Typologie, Verbreitung,
Chronologie und soziologischer Kontext nach Originalfunden
by Petra Linscheid
English summary: The analysis of archaeological
textiles in order to write their ancient
cultural history is still in its infancy. This
study contributes to this process by cataloging
more than 600 original pieces of headwear from
the late Roman and early Byzantine periods, and
evaluates them in terms of their location, date,
sociological context, visual and written
sources, as well as their precursors and successors. The majority of the ...
Hardback. US$168.00, US$135.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/89224/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/89224/mid/25998>Textile
Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and
Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennnia BC
edited by C. Michel and M.L. Nosch
The written sources from the Ancient Near East
and the Eastern Mediterranean Area from the 3rd
to the 1st millennium contain rich terminologies describing textiles.
The Greek word for a long shirt, khiton, ki-to
in Linear B, derives from the Semitic root ktn.
The Akkadian term for linen is kitm, but the Old
Assyrian kutnum is made of wool and the Arab and
English word for cotton today has the same ...
Hardback. US$70.00, US$50.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/157450/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/157450/mid/25998>Koptische
Textilien: Bestandskatalog der Archäologischen Staatssammlung München
by Dorothee Renner-Volbach, contributions by Erika Simon
English summary: This 38th volume in the series
"Ausstellungskataloge der Archäologischen
Staatssammlung" covers a small but instructive
collection of textiles embroidered with
decorative patterns or crimson tapestries from
late antique-Coptic and Byzantine-Islamic Egypt.
This small collection came into the possession
of the museum during the last third of the last
century. As with the majority of the remaining stock of Coptic ...
Hardback. US$23.00, US$18.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/83970/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/83970/mid/25998>Nomadic Felts
by Stephanie Bunn
Believed to be one of the earliest textiles,
felt has been made by the nomadic peoples of
Central Asia for over 2,500 years and the craft
still thrives today as an integral part of their
culture. Valued for both its functional and
decorative qualities, felt is used to make yurts
and all manner of objects relating to daily
life, such as carpets, interior fittings,
carrying bags, saddle cloths and clothing.
Traditional feltmaking is also still ...
Paperback. US$50.00, US$40.00
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/76107/mid/25998>Embroidery
from Afghanistan
by Sheila Paine
Embroidery from Afghanistan is varied, rich, and
sumptuous. This book focuses on over thirty
pieces and explores the embroidery of different
tribes and their geographical regions.
Illustrated in full color and in detail, the
textiles included will provide ...
Paperback. US$24.95, US$9.98
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/70087/mid/25998>Textiles
of Central and South America
by Angela Thompson
A handsomely illustrated survey of the textile
traditions and techniques of Central and South
America, featuring 200 color photos.
The rich textile traditions of Central and South
America stem from a society whose culture is firmly rooted in ...
Hardback. US$50.00, US$14.98
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/75095/mid/25998>Textiles
Through the Ages
by Ruth Barnes, Emma Dick and Jon Thompson
This booklet is intended to illustrate the
history of textiles and weaving through the
centuries by bringing together some key objects
from the Ashmolean Museum's many collections.
The oldest objects tell us about the early history of the fibres used by ...
Paperback. US$9.95, US$4.98
<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/3280/mid/25998>
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<http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/3280/mid/25998>Dress
in Anglo-Saxon England
by Gale R Owen-Crocker
A vivid and detailed reconstruction of the
costume worn in England before the arrival of
the Norman conquerers. 408p, 12 color
illustrations, 13 b/w illustrations (Boydell & Brewer 2004).
Hardback. US$60.00, US$24.98
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