Textiles, textile production and clothing were essentials of living in prehistory, locked into the
system of society at every level–social, economic and even religious. Textile crafts not only …

A theoretical framework for reconstruction as an integrated scholarly research method
across a range of disciplines is long overdue. This paper discusses the usefulness of …

Abstract Around 100 BCE–350 CE, in present-day Sudan, the Kushite people of the Meroitic
kingdom assembled long strands of cotton threads to create lattice works of elaborate …

When he introduced the term ergonomics in 1857, Wojciech Jastrzębowski had in mind
holistic research on human and non-human (!) work which he perceived as a positive driving …

The production of textiles, in terms of weaving techniques, has a long history in Europe, and
dates back to the Stone Age, the time during which the first farming communities arrived in …

As part of a conservation and access project, the author was asked to replicate a set of rare
thread-wrapped coat buttons that proved to be of a previously undocumented form. Using …

Making cities Page 1 McDONALD INSTITUTE CONVERSATIONS Making cities Economies of
production and urbanization in Mediterranean Europe, 1000–500 bc Edited by Margarita …

A surprising number of 16th century knitted caps and cap linings are preserved in museum
collections across Europe. Numbering more than 100, these somewhat unglamorous items …

This thesis examines the warp weighted loom during the Anglo-Saxon and Viking eras in
England through archaeological, linguistic, and art evidence, supported by similar …

Often historical studies on jewelry are often focused on Eurocentric traditions especially in
the Americas, this project seeks to reveal the transnational legacies of jewelry artists and …