A History of Textile Art

A History of Textile Art is a handbook for scholars and students and has been hailed as the first scholarly book on the subject to have appeared in any country. It includes a comprehensive survey of textile history world-wide from ancient times to the twentieth century. The book begins with basic technical data concerning materials, looms and weaves before going on to discuss problems relating to technical developments. This discussion in turn provides an introduction to historical accounts of special topics such as silk manufacture, knotted pile fabrics, dyeing, textile printing and pattern dyeing and the textile trade with the Orient. A chapter on textiles and textile crafts in Scandinavia places this important material in its European context for the first time. The illustrations are both profuse and instructive, comprising 111 text figures, 203 monochrome illustrations and 4 color plates.