posted on 2016-10-24, 15:32authored byMary E. Harlow
The main focus of my research is Roman dress.
When we imagine the Roman past, one of the images
most conjured up is a statue of a man in a toga. Roman
authors (always men) wrote about the clothing
in ways that expose the social codes associated with
certain garments but reveals little about textile production
or the relative economic value of either the
textiles or the finished garment. If they do talk about
cost, it is mostly to complain about women desiring
expensive and exotic fabrics such as silk. Alongside
this rather partial literature, a huge volume of surviving
images in a variety of media show clothed individuals
allowing us to stock the Roman wardrobe with
a number of different garments. However, it is often
hard to match the literature with the images and to
align the idealising and stereotyping that they embody
to the lived reality of producing and wearing the
ancient wardrobe. [Opening paragraph]
History
Citation
Traditional Textile Craft - an Intangible Cultural Heritage?, 2016, PP. 137 - 145
Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/School of Archaeology and Ancient History/Core Staff
Source
Traditional Textile Craft – an Intangible Cultural Heritage?, March 2014, Amman, Jordan.
Version
VoR (Version of Record)
Published in
Traditional Textile Craft - an Intangible Cultural Heritage?
Publisher
Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen
isbn
978-87-998798-0-9
Copyright date
2016
Available date
2016-10-24
Publisher version
http://www.traditionaltextilecraft.dk/386325174
Notes
The full proceeding is available via the link above.