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Explorers, First Collectors and Traders of Textiles: From Egypt of the 1st Millennium AD. Antoine De Moor, Cäcilia Fluck and Petra Linscheid
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In Explorers, First Collectors and Traders of Textiles: From Egypt of the 1st Millennium AD, the textile becomes the vessel of time, trade and passage. This richly produced volume excavates the early chapters of textile history in Egypt: not just its fibre and form, but the hands that made, collected and moved cloth from tombs to cabinets, from desert sites to museum cases. The dry soils of Egypt have left an unusually large corpus of ancient textile fragments, and this book turns its gaze to the explorers, dealers, archaeologists and early collectors who first retrieved and circulated those threads. With essays spanning late-19th-century trade, Coptic bands, conservators’ reports and excavation updates, it reads as both catalogue and archive, invitation and enquiry.
More than a textile-catalogue, the book is a meditation on cloth as global object: warp and weft become commerce, fragment and archive become exhibit, motif becomes map. Each cloth-image is framed by stories of collection, shifting colonial geographies and scientific methods. At once detailed and broad, it encourages the reader to “slow-see” not just the weave but the biography of the weave—its maker, mover, market, museum. For the Selvedge reader, its value lies not only in beautiful images, but in the way it places material culture in motion—textile as trace, textile as travel.
About the Author
The volume is edited by Antoine De Moor, Cäcilia Fluck and Petra Linscheid. De Moor is a noted textile archaeologist specialising in Egyptian textiles and the history of their excavation and collection. Fluck and Linscheid bring curatorial, conservational and scholarly expertise in textile studies—together they present a project rooted in the biennial conference of the research group Textiles from the Nile Valley, ensuring that the book combines rich imagery with rigorous scholarship.
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Hannibal Publishers
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9789464366075
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