Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Robin Netherton is a costume historian specializing in Western European clothing of the Middle Ages and its interpretation by artists and historians. Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.

Reviews

Enhance[s] our knowledge of dress and fashion [and] enriches our wider perception of the medieval world.
*COSTUME, vol. 42, 208*