Textiles of Ireland : archaeology, craft, art /
"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 cast...
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Cork University Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Frances Pritchard
- Elizabeth Wincott Heckett: a profile / Mary Ann Williams
- Time periods and textile finds in Irish archaeology
- Ancient textiles and patterns. Textiles in archaeology ; Clothing patterns as constructs of the human mind: establishment and continuity
- Prehistoric Ireland. Early textile finds in Ireland and Scotland ; Late Bronze Age textiles, hair and fibre remains, and spindle whorls from Killymoon, County Tyrone ; A late Bronze Age horsehair ornament from Cromaghs, Armoy, County Antrim
- Early medieval Ireland. Beyond the empire: an Irish mantle and cloak ; Irish 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 from County Roscommon and the related textiles ; An elusive cloth: aspects of the archaeology of linen in northern Europe in the medieval and post-medieval period ; The textiles recovered from a corn-drying kiln in Ballyvass, County Kildare ; Textiles from the Viking warrior grave in Woodstown, County Waterford ; A tenth-century cloth from Bogstown, County Meath ; Some silk and wool head-coverings from Viking Dublin: uses and origins - an enquiry ; Irish Viking Age silks and their place in Hiberno-Norse society ; Fragments of Nålebinding from a site associated with St Audoen's Church, Cornmarket, Dublin
- Medieval Ireland. Cloth, clothmakers and trade: a European overview ; Élite and military Scandinavian dress as portrayed in the Lewis chess pieces ; Medieval textiles from Waterford City ; Textiles, animal hair and fibres from Skiddy's Castle, Christ Church, Cork ; Textiles from the excavation of the Cork city wall at Grand Parade ; The buttons from Barrack Street, Cork ; A narrow silk band from Chancery Lane, Dublin
- Post-medieval 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
- Early modern 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, Dublin ; The textiles from Kilcoe Castle, County Cork ; Gold and silver decorative metal laces in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Ireland and Europe ; Finds of seventeenth-century silk and knitting ; Four textiles from Chancery Lane, Dublin ; The textiles from Mackney Ringfort, County Galway ; 'Heavens' embroidered cloths': textiles from the Honan Chapel, University College Cork
- Coda / Mary Ann Williams
- Glossary.