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vashtisca
Nov 20, 20221 min read
Tang Dynasty: Archaeological Finds
A Brief Report of the Excavation of Kang Wentong’s Tomb, Tang Dynasty https://doi.org/10.1515/CHAR.2006.6.1.105 Xi’an Institute of...
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vashtisca
Nov 14, 20223 min read
Tang Dynasty Textiles
A Study on the Cultural Exchange of the Weaving Skills and Patterns Witnessed in Geum-textiles between East and West from Ancient Times...
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vashtisca
Nov 5, 20222 min read
Khazar: General Info
Armies of the Volga Bulgars & Khanate of Kazan: 9th–16th centuries Book Shpakovsky, Vlacheslav and David Nicolle Byzantine...
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vashtisca
Oct 30, 20222 min read
Balkans: General Info
A History of the Balkan Peoples Ristelhueber, Rene Book Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern...
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vashtisca
Oct 23, 20221 min read
Abbasid Caliphate: General Information
A Significant of Bayt al-Hikmah in Development of Scientific Work in Abbasids Period and Downfall of this Revolutionary Institute ...
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vashtisca
Oct 16, 20221 min read
Medieval England: Plantagenet Court Life
Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400 Book Alexander, Jonathan, and Binski, Paul, eds Armies of the Plantagenet...
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vashtisca
Oct 10, 20221 min read
H0ly Roman Empire: Ottonian Dynasty 919-1024
Church and cosmos in early Ottonian Germany: the view from Cologne Mary-Hartin, H Book Civilians and militia in Ottonian Germany ...
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vashtisca
Oct 2, 20221 min read
Ostrogoths: General Info
A History of the Ostrogoths Burns, Thomas S Book ‘Byzantines, Goths and Lombards in Italy: Jewellery, dress and cultural...
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vashtisca
Sep 25, 20221 min read
Byzantine Sex & Gender
Approaches to the Byzantine Family Brubaker, Leslie and Shaun Tougher Book Brothels, Baths and Babes Prostitution in the Byzantine...
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vashtisca
Sep 18, 20223 min read
Mongol: General Info
Thank you to Lady Sechen Tartar-Un of Calontir for her contributions to this bibliography. A Mongolian Era Female Headdress from the...
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vashtisca
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Sex and Gender in the Abbasid Caliphate
Caliphal Harems, Household Harems: Baghdad in the Fourth Century of the Islamic Era Book El-Chiekh, Nadia Maria Concubines...
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vashtisca
Sep 5, 202213 min read
Roman Era Egyptian Textiles
Click on the links to see more images and info at the museums' websites. *In putting together this post I noticed several weaving terms...
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vashtisca
Aug 28, 20221 min read
Viking Textiles: Norway
Dyes and Wools in Iron Age Textiles from Norway and Denmark Walton, Penelope https://doi.org/10.1080/0108464X.1988.1059...
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vashtisca
Aug 21, 20221 min read
Heian Era Japan: Textiles
A Study of the Clothes Phenomenon of the Heian Period of Japan https://koreascience.kr/article/JAKO201023659447411.page ...
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vashtisca
Aug 15, 20221 min read
Sex and Gender: Heian Japan
Aesthetics of Womanhood in Heian Japan Hunter, Rebekah A pdf Childbirth in...
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vashtisca
Jul 31, 20221 min read
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Thank you to Lady Kitsu Kotome for her input on search terms for this topic. Before Rikyū. Religious and Aesthetic Influences in the...
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vashtisca
Jul 24, 20222 min read
Late Imperial Roman Glass Beads (images)
3rd - 4th Century. Gotland, Sweden. Glass bead of a glodular shape is made in a millefiori technique. The colours alternate from yellow...
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vashtisca
Jul 17, 20224 min read
Early - Imperial Roman Glass Beads (images)
Click on the links to learn to visit the museum website. 250 BC through 99 AD. Early Roman Empire. 2 mosaic beads. Overall L: 2.1 cm....
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vashtisca
Jul 11, 20227 min read
Undated Roman Glass Beads (images)
Click the links for more Glasgow Hills, Roman British. Hexagonal-sectioned bead in marbled green-and-yellow glass. The surface is...
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vashtisca
Jun 6, 20225 min read
10th - 16th Century Textiles: Egypt (images)
Images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Click the LInks to see more. 11th Century. Attributed to Egypt. Linen and silk; plain weave,...
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