Acknowledgements
Foreword by Frances Pritchard
Introduction by Frances Pritchard
Elizabeth Wincott Heckett by Mary Ann
Williams
Chart of Time Periods
Ancient Textiles and Patterns
Chapter 1 Textiles
in Archaeology
Chapter 2 Clothing
Patterns as Constructs of the Human Mind: Establishment and continuity
Prehistoric Finds
Chapter 3 Early
Textile Finds in Ireland and Scotland
Chapter 4 Late
Bronze Age Textiles, Hair and Fibre Remains, and Spindle Whorls from Killymoon,
County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Chapter 5 A Late
Bronze Age Horsehair Ornament from Cromaghs, Armoy
Early Medieval Ireland
Chapter 6 Beyond
the Empire: An Irish mantle and cloak
Chapter 7 Irish
Medieval Textiles AD 600–1200: ‘The slender thread over the hand of a skilled
woman’
Chapter 8 The
Lady of Cloonshannagh Bog: An Irish seventh-century AD bog body and the related
textiles
Chapter 9 An
Elusive Cloth: Aspects of the archaeology of linen in northern Europe in the
medieval and post-medieval period
Chapter 10 The
Textiles Recovered from a Corn-Drying Kiln in Ballyvass, County Kildare
Chapter 11 Textiles
from the Viking Warrior Grave in Woodstown, County Waterford
Chapter 12 A
Tenth-Century Cloth from Bogstown, County Meath
Chapter 13 Some
Silk and Wool Head-Coverings from Viking Dublin: Uses and origins – an enquiry
Chapter 14 Irish
Viking Age Silks and Their Place in Hiberno-Norse Society
Chapter 15 Fragments
of Nålebinding from a Site Associated with St Audoen’s Church,
Cornmarket, Dublin
Medieval Ireland
Chapter 16 Cloth,
Clothmakers and Trade: A European overview
Chapter 17 Élite
and Military Scandinavian Dress as Portrayed in the Lewis Chess Pieces
Chapter 18 Medieval
Textiles from Waterford City
Chapter 19 Textiles,
Animal Hair and Fibres from Skiddy’s Castle, Christ Church, Cork
Chapter 20 Textiles
from the Excavation of the Cork City Wall at Grand Parade
Chapter 21 The
Buttons from Barrack Street, Cork
Chapter 22 A
Narrow Silk Band from Chancery Lane, Dublin
Early Modern Ireland
Chapter 23 An
Irish ‘Shaggy Pile’ Fabric of the Sixteenth Century: An insular survival?
Chapter 24 The
Margaret Fitzgerald Tomb Effigy: A late medieval headdress and gown in St
Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny
Post-Medieval Ireland
Chapter 25 Rural
Clothing of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A catalogue of bog finds
Chapter 26 ‘The
apparel oft proclaims the man’: Late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century
textiles from Bridge Street Upper, Dublin
Chapter 27 The
Textiles from Kilcoe Castle, County Cork
Chapter 28 Gold
and Silver Decorative Metal Laces in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in
Ireland and Europe
Chapter 29 Finds
of Seventeenth-Century Silk and Knitting
Chapter 30 Four
Sixteenth-/Seventeenth-Century Textiles from Chancery Lane, Dublin
Chapter 31 The
Textiles from Mackney Ringfort, County Galway
Chapter 32 ‘Heavens’
embroidered cloths’: Textiles from the Honan Chapel, University College Cork
Coda by Mary Ann Williams
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
