Outside in: Making sense of the deliberate concealment of garments within buildings

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 238-255

  Eastop, Dinah ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b AHRC Research Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; GARMENT; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; TEXTILE CONSERVATION;

EID: 33845464956     PISSN: 14759756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/147597506778691549     Document Type: Article

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