Textiles Studies
Date of this Version
7-1999
Document Type
Article
Citation
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, July 1999, Vol. 58, No. 3 (July, 1999), pp. 215-216.
Abstract
This publication presents twenty-nine superb photographs of a selection of outstanding Late Antique textiles from among more than fifteen hundred classified as Coptic in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accompanying an exhibition of sixty-one textiles (on view 4 December 1995-7 April 1996), this booklet celebrates the "new, accessible storage and ex- tensive visual and documentary archives" (p. 4) of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center at the Metro politan Museum of Art. ...
The study of textiles can tell us so much more about the societies from which they came, about the cultures that produced them--information concerning environmental constraints and cultivation, fibers and how they are processed and manipulated, dyes and dyestuffs, and how color is obtained. It is hoped that the future resources and leadership of the dramatic, new Antonio Ratti Textile Center will sustain rigorous inquiry into the nature and significance of textiles, exploring their preeminent role in local and global econo- mies, as well as eliciting their evidence for creativity and ingenuity so as to explain the role of textiles in the technological advancement of humankind.
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