Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times: People, Places, Identities (Ancient Textiles)

Textile Production Is An Economic Necessity That Has Confronted All Societies In The Past. While Most Textiles Were Manufactured At A Household Level, Valued Textiles Were Traded Over Long Distances And These Trade Networks Were Influenced By Raw Material Supply, Labour Skills, Costs, As Well As By Regional Traditions. This Was True In The Mediterranean Regions And Making Textiles In Pre-roman And Roman Times Explores The Abundant Archaeological And Written Evidence To Understand The Typological And Geographical Diversity Of Textile Commodities. Beginning In The Iron Age, The Volume Examines The Foundations Of The Textile Trade In Italy And The Emergence Of Specialist Textile Production In Austria, The Impact Of New Roman Markets On Regional Traditions And The Role That Gender Played In The Production Of Textiles. Trade Networks From Far Beyond The Frontiers Of The Empire Are Traced, Whilst The Role Of Specialized Merchants Dealing In Particular Types Of Garment And The Influence Of Roman Collegia On How Textiles Were Produced And Distributed Are Explored. Of These Collegia, That Of The Fullers Appears To Have Been Particularly Influential At A Local Level And How Cloth Was Cleaned And Treated Is Examined In Detail, Using Archaeological Evidence From Pompeii And Provincial Contexts To Understand The Processes Behind This Area Of The Textile Trade.-- Introduction / John Peter Wild -- Transformations In Textile Production And Exchange In Pre-roman Italy / Margarita Gleba -- Textile Making In Central Tyrrhenian Italy : Questions Related To Age, Rank And Status / Sanna Lipkin -- Discovering The People Behind The Textiles : Iron Age Textile Producers And Their Products In Austria / Karina Grömer -- Textile Production And Trade In Roman Noricum / Kordula Gostenčnik -- Craftspeople, Merchants Or Clients? : The Evidence Of Personal Names On The Commercial Lead Tags From Siscia / Ivan Radman-livaja -- Female Work And Identity In Roman Textile Production And Trade : A Methodological Discussion / Lena Larsson Lovén -- Trade, Traders And Guilds (?) In Textiles : The Case Of Southern Gaul And Northern Italy (1st-3rd Centuries Ad) / Jinyu Liu -- Textile Trade In The Periplus Of The Erythraean Sea / Manuel Albaladejo Vivero -- Textiles And Their Merchants In Rome's Eastern Trade / By Kerstin Dross-krüpe -- (in)visible Spinners In The Documentary Papyri From Roman Egypt / Sophie Gällnö -- Textile Production Centres, Products And Merchants In The Roman Province Of Asia / Isabella Benda-weber -- Ulula, Quinquatrus And The Occupational Identity Of Fullones In Early Imperial Italy / Miko Flohr -- A 'private' Felter's Workshop In The Casa Dei Postumii In Pompeii / Jens-arne Dickmann. Edited By Margarita Gleba And Judit Pásztókai-szeoke. The Present Volume Originates In A Workshop 'work And Identity: The Agents Of Textile Production And Exchage In The Roman Period', Which Took Place On 7 June 2009 In Halstatt, Austria.--page V. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances and these trade networks were influenced by raw material supply, labor skills, costs, as well as by regional traditions. This was true in the Mediterranean regions and Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman times explores the abundant archaeological and written evidence to understand the typological and geographical diversity of textile commodities. Beginning in the Iron Age, the volume examines the foundations of the textile trade in Italy and the emergence of specialist textile production in Austria, the impact of new Roman markets on regional traditions and the role that gender played in the production of textiles. Trade networks from far beyond the frontiers of the Empire are traced, whilst the role of specialized merchants dealing in particular types of garment and the influence of Roman collegia on how textiles were produced and distributed are explored. Of these collegia, that of the fullers appears to have been particularly influential at a local level and how cloth was cleaned and treated is examined in detail, using archaeological evidence from Pompeii and provincial contexts to understand the processes behind this area of the textile trade. Table of Contents Preface Margarita Gleba Maps Introduction John Peter Wild 1. Textile Production and Trade in pre-Roman Italy Margarita Gleba 2. Textile Making Questions Related to Age, Rank and Status Sanna Lipkin 3. Discovering the People behind the Iron Age Textile Producers and their Products in Austria Karina Grmer 4. Textile Production and Trade in Roman Noricum Kordula Gostennik 5. Craftspeople, Merchants or Clients? The Evidence of Personal Names on the Commercial lead tags from Siscia Ivan Radman-Livaja 6. Female Work and Identity in Roman Textile Production and A Methodological Discussion Lena Larsson Lovn 7. Trade, Traders and guilds (?) in the Case of Southern Gaul and Northern Italy (1st-3rd Centuries AD) Jinyu Liu 8. Textile Trade in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea Manuel Albaladejo Vivero 9. Textiles and their Merchants in Romes Eastern Trade Kerstin Dro-Krpe 10. (In)visible Spinners in the Documentary Papyri from Roman Egypt Sophie Glln 11. Textile Production Centres, Products and Merchants in the Roman Province of Asia Isabella Benda-Weber 12. Ulula, Quinquatrus and the Occupational Identity of Fullones in Early Imperial Italy Miko Flohr 13. A Private Felters Workshop in the Casa dei Postumii in Pompeii Jens Arne Dickmann Index Introduction / John Peter Wild -- Transformations in textile production and exchange in pre-Roman Italy / Margarita Gleba -- Textile making in central Tyrrhenian Italy : questions related to age, rank and status / Sanna Lipkin -- Discovering the people behind the textiles : Iron Age textile producers and their products in Austria / Karina Grömer -- Textile production and trade in Roman Noricum / Kordula Gostencnik -- Craftspeople, merchants or clients? : the evidence of personal names on the commercial lead tags from Siscia / Ivan Radman-Livaja -- Female work and identity in Roman textile production and trade : a methodological discussion / Lena Larsson Lovén -- Trade, traders and guilds in textiles : the case of southern Gaul and northern Italy (1st-3rd centuries AD) / Jinyu Liu -- Textile trade in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea / Manuel Albaladejo Vivero -- Textiles and their merchants in Rome's eastern trade / by Kerstin Dross-Krüpe -- (In)visible spinners in the documentary papyri from Roman Egypt / Sophie Gällnö -- Textile production centres, products and merchants in the Roman province of Asia / Isabella Benda-Weber -- Ulula, Quinquatrus and the occupational identity of fullones in early imperial Italy / Miko Flohr -- A "private" felter's workshop in the Casa dei Postumii in Pompeii / Jens Arne Dickmann Papers in this volume approach the investigation of textile production and trade in the Roman Empire and beyond its borders by focusing in particular on the identity of the agents involved in these activities.