A richly illustrated survey of the costume of western Europe and European North America, with selected information from the ancient Middle East.

Clothing was hardly a practical necessity in North Africa and what is today the Middle East. Often a luxury item in these warm, humid climates, it became more essential as people's lives improved socially and economically. But even then, the drapery was light and tended to accent the body's shape rather than conceal it. The first part of this profusely illustrated and scrupulously researched text examines the evolution in apparel worn by Egyptian royalty, priests, musicians, manual workers, the military, and foreigners (as depicted by Egyptian artists). Two additional sections consider clothing worn in ancient Mesopotamia and Persia, focusing largely on Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian styles. Over 250 illustrations, drawn in the artistic style of the period, are accompanied by flat patterns showing the cut of the garment, thus enabling today's costumers to accurately reconstruct this apparel. A comprehensive archive that will not only be of immense value to fashion historians and students of costume design, this volume will also fascinate anyone interested in the development of artistic representation.

Beads are among the oldest forms of art. The first durable ornaments from as early as ca. 100,000 BCE survive and may be recovered archaeologically.  Beads are coveted not only for their beauty, but also for their supposed magical and amuletic properties--such as protection from illness or malevolent influences--as status makers, and as indicators of prosperity.  They may also be a "store of wealth," making them loosely related to money or currency.  Made of materials such as shell, bone, seeds, wood, minerals, metal, and glass, beads are admired and collected worldwide.  This book presents beads found in Western and Central Asia from the Eastern Mediterranean to Iran and Afghanistan; and from Island SE Asia.  Many specimens date from the Roman Period or earlier, through the Islamic Period, and into modern times.  The beads presented here are from a collection accumulated by Ulrich Beck--a retired Swiss architect, who lived for many years in Indonesia.

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