Saturday, August 8, 2009

Hunters and Gatherers

These are the images from my lecture on the origins of textile design and creation.  

Slide 1:Hunters, Gatherers & Accountants: developing an understanding of past civilizations in the production of textiles through the development of technologies

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Slide 2: Bronze Age Peoples

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Slide 3: Prehistoric civilisations

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Slide 4

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Oldest known garment,  from Tarkhan Egypt, ca  3,000 BC  


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Horizontal ground loom depicted on a bowl, ca 4,000 BC (below)

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Model of a weaver’s workshop from Egyptian tomb. The women are spinning, plying, warping and weaving on a horizontal loom.  2,000 BC.  First pyramids were built c. 2681-2662 BC

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1991-1786 BC depiction of Egyptian Aamu people.

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A funerary tunic of Tutankhamun (1333-1323 BC)

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Evidence of weaving technique-decoration of a Attic Greek lekythos 560BC

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Warp weighted loom depicted on a skphos,  Greece, 4th  century BC 

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A fragment of Greek linen, woven, c.  400 BC.  Fabric embroidered in a diamond pattern inset with lions.

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Female costume from Denmark-early Bronze age c. 1500 BC.Basic shape, shirt has elaborate embroidery around the neck. This corded skirt has parallels with bronze figurines. Skirts with bronze tubing made a merry tinkling sound.

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Detail of fine sewing on Huldremose woman’s cloak,  peplos-like dress found near Huldremose woman, and  reconstruction of other clothes found on or with bog  mummies, 400 BC-340 AD.

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Slide 14

Central Europe

Hallstatt culture: c.  700-500  BC

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Watercolours of textiles from C19 excavations

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Southern Europe Silk and wool embroidery on hemp from southern Macedonia, were dyed in madder for red, carmine acid for scarlet and indigo/woad for blue/black and if mixed with yellow-green. Colour and pattern represents tastes that can be traced back to at least 400 BC.

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Precolombian cotton fabric  exhibiting different patterns and  weaves. 

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Detail of a fragment of Paracas  fabric of Camelid fibre from the  south coast of Peru, ca. 400-100  BC  The humanoid figures are  embroidered in cross knit  looping.

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Detail of a Oaxacan pozahuanco illustrates the brilliance of murex purple.Cotton woven on a back strap loom. Also, indigo and insect-red cochineal. Used occasionally on animal fibres in 1BC then important cotton dye after C1500 AD.

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Bright plumage secured with a cotton stitch. Peruvian Nazca 200BC -200 AD.






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