Contextualising Textiles: Using the Bolton Museum Collection to Explore Social and

这个项目的问题是：“技术创新是否影响了性别分工？”埃及的纺织工业将作为一个案例来讨论从青铜时代中期到伊斯兰时期的技术创新。将特别关注中至新王国时期的技术创新以及随后增加的对外接触时期。在中至新王国时期，新技术，如战车，新的铜冶炼技术和新的武器通过希克索斯殖民地被带到埃及。这也是垂直织机取代水平织机的时期，这是纺织品生产的艺术表现。亚麻布是当时的主要织物选择，然而，在青铜时代中期到伊斯兰时期，与近东和地中海东部文化的更多接触导致了羊毛和棉花的引入，以及不同的趋势和生产技术。博尔顿博物馆的纺织品和相关工具将被检查，看看它们是否反映了在上述时期埃及、近东和地中海东部的社会变化。来自艺术、铭文、文学的证据，以及与其他同时期社会的跨文化比较，也将被用作纺织品、性别和技术创新利润的分析，这些分析来自区域间动态的分析，以及地方和区域尺度的语境化。

This project asks: 'did technological innovation affect the gendered division of labour? Egypt'stextile industry will be used as a case study for discussing technological innovation from theMiddle Bronze Age to the Islamic period. Particular attention will be given to technologicalinnovation during the Middle to New Kingdoms as well as subsequent periods of increasedforeign contact. During the Middle to New Kingdoms, new technology such as the chariot, newcopper smelting technology, and new weaponry was brought to Egypt via the Hyksoscolonisation. It was also the period in which the vertical loom supersedes the horizontal loom inartistic representations of textile production. Linen was the primary fabric of choice at that time,however, greater contact with cultures in the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean during theMiddle Bronze Age to the Islamic Period led to the introduction of wool and cotton as well asdiffering trends and production techniques. The textiles and the associated tools at the BoltonMuseum will be will be examined to see if they reflect the social changes seen in Egypt, the NearEast, and the Eastern Mediterranean during the stated periods. Evidence from art, epigraphy,literature, and cross-cultural comparisons with other contemporaneous societies will also be usedas an analysis of textiles, gender, and technological innovation profits from both an analysis ofinterregional dynamics, and contextualisation at local and regional scales.