Books, books and more books

[mmcnealy]

This is a listing of books on or about the linen industry in Europe pre-1600, and on the weather from the period as I think that impacted the fabric content of the clothes.

Unfortunatly my local research library doesn't carry these books and most of them run about $45-90, so I will have to wait until I get to our new house in CA to get them via ILL.

If anyone has already seen these books and would like to comment on their being usefull or not, I would greatly appreciate it.


The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
by Brian M. Fagan


The Age of Transition: The Archaeology of English Culture 1400-1600
by Davisd R. M. Gaimster

The European Linen Industry in Historical Perspective (Pasold Studies in Textile History, 13)
by Brenda Collins

The Dress of the Venetians, 1495-1525 (Pasold Studies in Textile History 7)
by Stella Mary Newton

Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe: Essays in Memory of Professor E. M. Carus-Wilson (Pasold Studies in Textile History, 2)
by E. M. Carus-Wilson

The East Anglian Linen Industry: Rural Industry and Local Economy, 1500-1850 (Pasold Studies in Textile History, 5)
by Nesta Evans

Medieval English Clothmaking: An Economic Survey
by A.R. Bridbury

The New Draperies in the Low Countries and England (Pasold Studies in Textile History, 10)
by Negley Harte

Textiles, Towns and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries (Variorum Collected Studies, No 442)
by John H. A. Munro (Hardcover - April 1994)

The Most Necessary Luxuries: The Mercers' Company of Coventry, 1550-1680
by Ronald M. Berger

European Women and Preindustrial Craft
by Daryl M. Hafter (Editor)


Dyes

Madder Red: A History of Luxury and Trade
by Robert Chenciner

Colouring Textiles - A History of Natural Dyestuffs in Industrial Europe (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 217)
by Agusti Nieto-Galan

Comments

[jenthompson.livejournal.com]

I've read The Dress of the Venetians, but I was pretty disappointed with it. Hardly any pictures and not enough about women's costume. There might be a few good written accounts in it, but I don't remember anything catching my eye except some stuff about the large dogale sleeves that were in vogue.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the review! I'll definitly keep that in mind about that book.

[ciorstan.livejournal.com]

Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe: Essays in Memory of Professor E. M. Carus-Wilson (Pasold Studies in Textile History, 2) by E. M. Carus-Wilson

I had this through ILL at one point and the only useful article I noted was that from Inge Haegg on the Birka finds-- which was the first re-think of Agnes Geijer's work on migration-era Scandinavian female clothing. It is in this book that the fore-and-aft two panel apron dress theory was disproved.

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

Now these ones sound very interesting:

The East Anglian Linen Industry: Rural Industry and Local Economy, 1500-1850 (Pasold Studies in Textile History, 5)
by Nesta Evans

Medieval English Clothmaking: An Economic Survey
by A.R. Bridbury

The Most Necessary Luxuries: The Mercers' Company of Coventry, 1550-1680
by Ronald M. Berger

They could provide some rather useful information for my research article (proving that places in the country away from London had other fabrics besides wool!).

Thankyou!

[marymont.livejournal.com]

Now, that one on the Little Ice Age I'd like to read. I've often thought that all this noise about "global warming" is actually the tail end of the recovery from that Little Ice Age.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of global warming that way, it's an interesting idea. I need to get this book and see what the author has to say.

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

I concure with Mary abbout this being the end of the mini ice age is the reason for the weather. Granted Air polution is a bad thing, but.....

[pinque.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have several pdf files from someone who had an essay/paper or ten in New Draperies.

They are free and online.. I just need to find the link....
I hope this works, I'm typing from the pdf...
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/
Author's page
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ecipa/author-index.html#Munro_John_H_
To the papers.

I haven't been able to read them all yet as they are full papers.. whee, academia! ;)

Oh and global warming.. we are supposed to be heading into another ice age, but due to the very real and serious pollution issues we may not feel the effects... yet.

But then we are really still learning about our world...