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Review of Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity, ed. Thelma K. Thomas
(2016)
  • Carol Bier
Abstract
Edited by textile historian Thelma K. Thomas, Associate Professor at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, this beautifully illustrated book advances scholarship on textiles of Late Antiquity with interpretive essays by curators, conservators, and historians. As a scholarly contribution offering a critical reappraisal of clothing and furnishings of the Late Antique world from the 3rd century to several centuries after the Arab conquests, it complements an exhibition of the same title held in 2016 at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU. Ed. Thelma K. Thomas, with contributions by Jennifer L. Ball, Edward Bleiberg, Kathrin Colburn, Helen C. Evans, Christine Kondoleon, Brandie Ratliff, Thelma K. Thomas, Elizabeth D. Williams. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press and Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, 2016. 152 p.
Keywords
  • Late Antiquity,
  • textiles,
  • Egypt,
  • Islamic textiles,
  • tapestry,
  • Byzantine,
  • Coptic,
  • identity
Publication Date
Spring 2016
Citation Information
Carol Bier (2016), Review of Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity, ed. Thelma K. Thomas, in Textile Society of America Newsletter, 28/1, pp. 18-19.