Unravelling the threads of the Nubian openworks. New inquiries on a unique textile tradition from Meroitic Sudan (c. 350 BCE – 350 CE)
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Unravelling the threads of the Nubian openworks. New inquiries on a unique textile tradition from Meroitic Sudan (c. 350 BCE – 350 CE). / Yvanez, Elsa; Mokdad, Ulrikka.
Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Approach: Humanities and Natural Sciences Interwoven for our Understanding of Textiles. ed. / Agata Ulanowska; Magdalena Örhman; Karina Grömer; Ina Vanden Berghe. Springer, 2022. p. 241–262 (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Unravelling the threads of the Nubian openworks.
T2 - New inquiries on a unique textile tradition from Meroitic Sudan (c. 350 BCE – 350 CE)
AU - Yvanez, Elsa
AU - Mokdad, Ulrikka
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Circa 100 BCE-350 CE, in today’s Sudan, the Kushite people of the Meroitic kingdom assembled long strands of cotton threads to create lattice works of elaborate design at the bottom of clothing and furnishing textiles. These openwork borders concluded the weave of large fabrics woven on the warp-weighted loom. Their ubiquity in the textile corpus of the Meroitic period makes these openworks a classic fixture of Meroitic weaving practices, reflected through iconography in other media as well. In 1984 and 1998, the renowned Nubian textiles experts Elisabeth Crowfoot and Nettie K. Adams studied the Meroitic openwork technique developed at Qasr Ibrim and compared it with other openworks from the Bronze Age site of Kerma (Crowfoot 1984, Adams 1998). Highlighting their common decorative vocabulary, the authors proposed to see the two techniques as different manifestations of the same craft tradition. Twenty years later, the present authors reexamined this hypothesis using an interdisciplinary approach based on the meeting of textile studies with experimental archaeology. Bringing heads and hands together, this project and the present article provided the opportunity to reconstruct and understand the manufacture and history of this remarkable technique.
AB - Circa 100 BCE-350 CE, in today’s Sudan, the Kushite people of the Meroitic kingdom assembled long strands of cotton threads to create lattice works of elaborate design at the bottom of clothing and furnishing textiles. These openwork borders concluded the weave of large fabrics woven on the warp-weighted loom. Their ubiquity in the textile corpus of the Meroitic period makes these openworks a classic fixture of Meroitic weaving practices, reflected through iconography in other media as well. In 1984 and 1998, the renowned Nubian textiles experts Elisabeth Crowfoot and Nettie K. Adams studied the Meroitic openwork technique developed at Qasr Ibrim and compared it with other openworks from the Bronze Age site of Kerma (Crowfoot 1984, Adams 1998). Highlighting their common decorative vocabulary, the authors proposed to see the two techniques as different manifestations of the same craft tradition. Twenty years later, the present authors reexamined this hypothesis using an interdisciplinary approach based on the meeting of textile studies with experimental archaeology. Bringing heads and hands together, this project and the present article provided the opportunity to reconstruct and understand the manufacture and history of this remarkable technique.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-92170-5_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-92170-5_14
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783030921699
T3 - Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
SP - 241
EP - 262
BT - Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Approach
A2 - Ulanowska, Agata
A2 - Örhman, Magdalena
A2 - Grömer, Karina
A2 - Vanden Berghe, Ina
PB - Springer
ER -
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