Artistic and archaeological evidence indicates that textiles played essential practical and social roles in Minoan and Mycenaean societies
This volume investigates evidence for patterned textiles that were produced by two early Mediterranean civilisations: the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece that prospered during the Aegean Bronze Age. Minoan and Mycenaean textiles were much desired as trade goods.
Only a few small scraps of textiles survive but evidence for their production is abundant, and frescoes supply detailed information about a wide variety of now-lost textile goods from luxurious costumes and beautifully patterned wall angings and carpets, to more utilitarian decorated fabrics