Publisher's description:
The third volume of this pioneering series explores the manufacture and trade of textiles and their practical, fashionable, and symbolic uses. Papers include in-depth studies and cross-genre scholarship representing such fields as social history, economics, art history, archaeology and literature, as well as the reconstruction of textile-making techniques. They range over England, Flanders, France, Germany, and Spain from the seventh to the sixteenth centuries, and address such topics as soft furnishings, ecclesiastical vestments, the economics of the wool trade, the making and use of narrow wares, symbolic reference to courtly dress in a religious text, and aristocratic children's clothing. Also included are reviews of recent books on dress and textile topics.

Contents:
page VII Illustrations
IX Tables
XI Contributors
XIII  Preface
1 1. Cushioning Medieval Life: Domestic Textiles in Anglo-Saxon England, Elizabeth Coatsworth
13 2. A Matter of Style: Clerical Vestments in the Anglo-Saxon Church, Sarah Larratt Keefer
41 3. Saints in Split Stitch: Representations of Saints in Opus Anglicanum Vestments, Susan Leibacher Ward
55 4. The Anti-Red Shift - To the Dark Side: Colour Changes in Flemish Luxury Woollens, 1300-1550, John H. Munro
97 5. The Finishing of English Woollens, 1300-1550, John Oldland
119 6. Poverty and Richly Decorated Garments: A Re-Evaluation of Their Significance in the Vita Christi of Isabel de Villena, Lesley K. Twomey
135 7. "Set on Yowre Hondys": Fifteenth-Century Instructions for Fingerloop Braiding, Elizabeth Benns
145 8. Tiny Textiles Hidden in Books: Toward a Categorization of Multiple-Strand Bookmarkers, Lois Swales and Heather Blatt
181 9. "She Hath Over Grown All that Ever She Hath": Children's Clothing in the Lisle Letters, 1553-40, Melanie Schuessler
201 Recent Books of Interest
209 Contents of Previous Volumes
211 Index