Textiles and Fiber Arts as Catalysts for Ideas

Adovasio, J. M., Olga Soffer, and B. Klima. "Palaeolithic Fibre Technology: Interlaced Woven Finds from Pavlov I, Czech Republic, c. 26,000 year, B.P." Antiquity 70 (1996): 526–534. Earliest preserved textile remains yet found.

Anawalt, Patricia Reiff. "A Comparative Analysis of the Costumes and Accoutrements of the Codex Mendoza." In The Codex Mendoza, edited by Frances Berdan and Patricia Anawalt, vol. 1, 103–150. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Aztec clothing described and analyzed.

Barber, E. J. W. The Mummies of Ürümchi. New York: Norton, 1999. Superbly preserved textile finds from prehistoric Central Asia.

——. "On the Antiquity of East European Bridal Clothing." In Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia: Beliefs about Protection and Fertility, edited by Linda Welters, 13–31. Oxford: Berg, 1999. History of the string skirt and its relatives.

——. Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. The majority of the data in this entry is documented in this compendium of archaeological textile data from 20,000B.C.E. to about 400 B.C.E., from Iran to Britain. Includes massive bibliography and index.

——. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times. New York: Norton, 1994. Broudy, Eric. The Book of Looms. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. Lavishly illustrated, with well-selected bibliography.

Emery, Irene. The Primary Structures of Fabrics: An Illustrated Classification. Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1966.

Geijer, Agnes. A History of Textile Art. Translated by R. Tanner. London: Pasold Research Fund, 1979. Classic general history of textiles.

Rudenko, S. I. Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron Age Horsemen. Translated by M. W. Thompson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. Superbly preserved textiles from prehistoric Siberia.

Sherratt, Andrew. "Plough and Pastoralism: Aspects of the Secondary Products Revolution." In Patterns of the Past: Studies in Honour of David Clark, edited by I. Hodder, G. Isaac, and N. Hammond, 261–305. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

E. J. W. Barber