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One hundred surviving garments are discussed with colour plates. Ranging from high art to homely, some are associated with known persons, others are anonymous, yet their histories - of recycling, repairing, augmenting - illuminate times when textile was handmade and precious.

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One hundred surviving garments are discussed with colour plates. Ranging from high art to homely, some are associated with known persons, others are anonymous, yet their histories - of recycling, repairing, augmenting - illuminate times when textile was handmade and precious.
Autorenporträt
Elizabeth Coatsworth BA, MSc, Ph.D. was Senior Lecturer and, until recently, Honorary Research Fellow in the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD), Manchester Metropolitan University. Her books include The Durham Gospels (with Christopher D. Verey, and T. Julian Brown, 1980); The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith (with Michael Pinder, 2002); and Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture. VIII. Western Yorkshire (2008). Gale R. Owen-Crocker BA, Ph.D., FSA is Professor Emerita, The University of Manchester, where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. Her books include Dress in Anglo-Saxon England (1986, 2004); The Four Funerals in Beowulf (2000); and The Bayeux Tapestry: Collected Papers (2012). She is co-founder and co-editor of the annual journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles.