Ancient Technology
Fresco Mixtures with Dried Lime Plaster: Cameron’s Experiments Revisited
Introduction
During the Bronze Age, the craftspeople of the eastern Mediterranean practiced a form of reuse or recycling: fragments of mortar were used as aggregates in lime mixtures intended for walls or floors (Shaw, 1973, p.222; Brysbaert, 2003, pp.168-173, pp.175-176; Jones, 2005, p.220; Brysbaert, 2008, p.118). Such a mixture was found in a house in the Akrotiri settlement of Santorini, in a part of the wall that was intended to be painted (Jones, 2005, p.220).
The Career of an Orange Stone
A Discussion on the Position of Weaving in the Society of Prehistoric Britain
The Ancient Magic of Malt: Making Malt Sugars and Ale from Grain Using Traditional Techniques
Just how practical is it to Move a Warp-weighted Loom from between the Interior and Exterior of a Roundhouse?
Weaving Production in Butser Ancient Farm Roundhouses in the South of England
The Process of Making Schist Axes of Paja Ul Deˀŋ – “The People of Big Water”
A Shared Warp: The Woven Belts of the Lao Han People, China
The renowned weaver Peter Collingwood briefly mentioned such belts in his book The Techniques of Tablet Weaving (Collingwood, 1982, pp.219-220). Not long before he died in 2008, he contributed a couple of pages on these belts to the book Minority Textile Techniques: Costumes from South-West China (Collingwood, 2007, pp.28-29).