In the dropbox folder linked below, you can find and download all of the course powerpoints, handouts with the priary source readings in translation, a PDF of the original course syllabus, and a few other handouts from the course.
In the dropbox folder linked below, you can find and download all of the course powerpoints, handouts with the priary source readings in translation, a PDF of the original course syllabus, and a few other handouts from the course.
Andersson Strand, E., Mårtensson, L., Nosch, M.-L. and Ramstorf, L. “New Research on Bronze Age Textile Production.” BICS 51 (2008), 171–4. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313227694_New_Research_on_Bronze_Age_Textile_Production
Barber, Elizabeth. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, cloth, and society in early times. W.W. Norton & Company, 1994.
Barber, Elizabeth. Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean. Princeton University Press, 1991.
Compton-Engle, Gwendolyn. "The Comic Body as Costume." In Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes. Cambridge University Press, 2015: 16-58
Dimova, Bela, Susanna Harris, and Margarita Gleba. 2021. “Naval Power and Textile Technology: Sail Production in Ancient Greece.” World Archaeology 53, no. 5 (2021): 762–78.
Hudson, Tracy P. “Variable and Assumptions in Modern Interpretation of Ancient Spinning Technique and Technology Through Archaeological Experimentation.” EXARC (2014). https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10147
Jones-Lewis, Molly Ayn. “Blog: Pecunia non olet: Adventures in Roman Woolwroking: SCS blog, July 10, 2023. https://classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/torilee/blog-pecunia-non-olet-adventures-roman-woolworking
Kania, Katrin. “The Spinning Experiment: influences on yarn in spinning with a hand-spindle.” In Ancient Textiles, Modern Science.Oxbow Books, 2013: 11-29.
Mazow, Laura. “The Root of the Problem: On the Relationship between Wool Processing and Lanolin Production.” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27, no. 1 (2014): 33-50.
Nosch, Marie-Louise, ed. Wearing the Cloak: Dressing the Soldier in Roman Times. Vol. 10. Oxbow Books, 2012.
Spantidaki, Stella. Textile Production in Classical Athens. Oxbow Books, 2016.
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 19.1-3
Aristophanes, Lysistrata 574-586
Homer, Odyssey 4.119-35
Herodotus, Histories IV.162, V.12-15
Xenophon, Oeconomicus 7
Theocritus, Idylls 28
The Battle of the Frogs and Mice 177-197
Catullus 64.303-381
Herodotus, Histories II.35
Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.7
Hackle and diz: Etsy
Wool combs: The Woolery
Warp yarn - undyed wool singles: Yarn Barn of Kansas
Colorful wool weaving yarn: DROPS Karisma in a variety of colors, LindeHobby
Recreation clay pyrmaidal loom weights: Reannag Teine
Natural dye kit (madder, logwood, osage, cochineal, protein and cellulose mordant): Julie Sinden Handmade & the love of colour
Spindle supplies (Amazon): Wooden wheels (whorls), dowels (shafts), cup hooks
Colorful wool roving sampler for felting: R. H. Lindsay Wool
Wool roving for spinning: I bought my wool roving for this course off of somebody local's porch, but an easy source is the undyed corriedale from The Woolery
Saffron threads for dyeing: Mountain Rose Herbs
Indigo dye kit: Julie Sinden Handmade & the love of colour
Turmeric for dyeing: Amazon
Modern acid dyes (Amazon): yellow, red
Undyed wool fabric swatches for dyeing: Amazon
Undyed linen swatches for dyeing: Burnley and Trowbridge
Lumber and fittings for building a two beam vertical loom (Lowes): Set of 1” pipe straps, 4x angle brackets, 0.5” 5 ft metal conduit, 0.5” 72 in. dowel, 2x 7” turnbuckles, 1x: 1” by 4” by 4’ poplar board, 1x: 1” by 4” by 8’ poplar board
Linen yarn for weaving: Yarn.com
Cottolin yarn for weaving: Ability Weavers
Fluffy/fine weaving yarn (hobbii): alpaca blaze, diablo wild print