Cambridge History of Western Textiles Book

Preface;

Part I. Textile Industries of the Ancient World:

1. Introduction John Peter Wild and Penelope Walton Rogers;
2. Ancient Egypt; Anatolia; Mesopotamia and the Levant; the late Bronze Aegeans; the near east in the Iron Age; Europe Joan Allgrove McDowell, John Peter Wild and Lise Bender Jørgensen;
3. The Greeks; the Romans; northern Europe in the Roman Iron Age; the eastern Mediterranean Ian Jenkins, John Peter Wild and Lise Bender Jørgensen;
4. Textile industries of the early medieval world to AD 1000 Lise Bender Jørgensen, Penelope Walton Rogers, John Peter Wild, Joan Allgrove McDowell and Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood;

Part II. The Medieval Period: 5 (i) Medieval woollens; textiles, textile technology and industrial organisation, c. 800-1500, 5 (ii) The western European woollen industries and their struggles for international markets, c. 1000-1500 John Munro;
6. Silk in the medieval world Anna Muthesius;
7. The uses of textiles, c. 1000-1500 Frances Pritchard;

Part III. The Early Modern Period:
8. The west European woollen industries, 1500-1750 Herman Van der Wee;
9. The linen industry in early modern Europe Leslie Clarkson;
10. Fashioning cottons; Asian trade, domestic industry and consumer demand, 1660-1780 Beverly Lemire;
11. Calico printing in Europe before 1780 Serge Chassagne;
12. Silk in the early modern period, c. 1500-1780 Natalie Rothstein;
13. Knitting and knitware Joan Thirsk;
14. Lace in the early modern period, c. 1500-1780 Santina Levey;
15. Early modern tapestries and carpets, c. 1500-1780 Edith Standen and Jennifer Wearden;
16. Furnishings, c. 1500-1780 NatalieRothstein and Santina Levey;
17. Dress in the early modern period, c. 1500-1780 Aileen Ribeiro;

Part IV. The Nineteenth Century:
18. Cotton, 1780-1914 Douglas Farnie;
19. The western wool textile industry in the nineteenth century David Jenkins;
20. Silk: the Industrial Revolution and after Natalie Rothstein;
21. The linen industry in the nineteenth century Peter Solar;
22. The hosiery industry, 1780-1914 Stanley Chapman;
23. Machine-made lace: the Industrial Revolution and after Santina Levey;
24. Textile design and furnishings, c. 1780-1914 Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark;
25. Dress: the Industrial Revolution and after Penelope Byrde;

Part V. The Twentieth Century:
26. Man-made fibres before 1945 Donald Coleman;
27. Man-made fibres since 1945 Jeffrey Harrop; 28 Cotton since 1914 Lars Sandberg;
29. Wool textiles in the twentieth century David Jenkins; 30 Hosiery and knitwear in the twentieth century Stanley Chapman;
31. Fashion for men and women in the twentieth century Lou Taylor and Fiona Anderson;
32. Furnishings and industrial textiles, 1914-1999 Mary Schoeser; Bibliography.