Publisher's description:
The study of medieval clothing and textiles has aroused great attention in recent years, as part of the growing concern in material culture as a whole; apart from its own intrinsic interest, it has much to reveal about life at the time. This exciting new series aims to offer all those interested in the subject the fruits of the best research in the area. Interdisciplinary in approach, it will feature work from the fields of social and economic history, history of techniques and technology, art history, archaeology, literary and non-literary texts, and language, while experimental reconstruction of medieval techniques or artifacts will also form a particular focus. The contents of each volume are selected to cover a broad geographical scope, as well as a range of periods from early medieval to the late Middle Ages. The journal also publishes short reviews of new books.
Topics in this first volume include Anglo-Saxon embroidery; textiles and textile imagery in the Exeter Book; the tippet; the regulation of clerical dress; and evidence for dress and textiles in late medieval English wills.

Contents:
page VII List of illustrations
XI Notes on contributors
XIII Preface
1 1  Stitches in Time: Establishing a History of Anglo-Saxon Embroidery, Elizabeth Coatsworth
29 2  Textiles and Textile Imagery in the Exeter Book, Maren Clegg Hyer
41 3  Pomp, Piety, and Keeping the Woman in her Place: The Dress of Cnut and Aelfgifu-Emma, Gale R. Owen-Crocker
53 4  Wrapped in a Blue Mantle: Fashions for Icelandic Slayers?, Sandra Ballif Straubhaar
67 5  The Orientation of Strikers in Medieval Fulling Mills: The Role of the 'French' Gualchiera, John Muendel
81 6  Bad Habits: Clothing and Textile References in the Register of Eudes Rigaud, Archbishop of Rouen, Susan M. Carroll-Clark
105 7  Forbidden Colors in the Regulation of Clerical Dress from the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) to the time of Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464), Thomas M. Izbicki
115 8  The Tippet: Accessory after the Fact?, Robin Netherton
133 9  Threads Bared: Dress and Textiles in Late Medieval English Wills, Kristen M. Burkholder
155 10  Giovanna Cenami's Veil: A Neglected Detail, Carla Tilghman
173 Recent Books of Interest
177 Index