Dressed for the Occasion: Clothes and Context in the Roman army
Modern images and reconstructions of the Roman soldier’s appearance nearly always show a fully-armed, often grim-looking combatant, wearing helmet and armour and sporting several weapons.
Reconstructing The Ancient Aegean/Egyptian Textile Trade
We know from various sorts of archaeological and palaeobotanical evidence, for example, that flax had been in use for textiles throughout southeastern Europe since the 6th millennium BC, and that wool and woolly sheep had been introduced from the Near East shortly before 3000 BC (the end of the Neolithic)
Of Belts and Men: The Roman Military Belt of the 1st Century A.D.
This thesis functions to produce a comprehensive introduction to the 1st Century A.D. Roman military belt and examine what such an item meant to the soldiers.
How to look good, ancient: The empress as the Imperial model
In this paper, the dress and adornment of the elite matrona and their reception in Roman society
Cleverness, cleanliness, and urine in ancient Rome
The cleaning of Roman clothing was no insignificant undertaking.
Silk Weaving in Ancient China: From Geometric Figures to Patterns of Pictorial Likeness
The advantages of the silk thread were probably already recognised by Chi- nese stone-age women employed in weaving. If maximum benefit was to be got from its exceptional length, then it was only logical to dress the loom with a warp of silk threads.
Attire in Ammianus and Gregory of Tours
Ammianus (c. 330–c. 395) and Gregory of Tours (538–594) both wrote large-scale histories and, as a soldier and a bishop respectively, had first hand experience of many of the persons and events they wrote of. But they lived in very different worlds, the splendid Indian summer of the Roman Empire on the one hand, and the fragmented, perpetually feuding Germanic kingdoms of sixth century, sub-Roman, Merovingian Gaul on the other, where not only bodily coverings and adornments themselves changed but some attitudes towards them did too.