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？本文将以埃及的纺织工业为例，讨论从青铜时代中期到伊斯兰时代的技术创新。将特别关注中新王国时期的技术创新，以及随后的外国接触增加时期。在中世纪到新王国时期，战车、新的铜冶炼技术和新的武器装备等新技术通过希克斯殖民主义被带到了埃及。这也是在纺织生产的艺术表现上，立式织机取代了卧式织机的时期。亚麻布在当时是主要的选择，然而，在中世纪青铜时代到伊斯兰时期，与近东和东地中海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进行检查，看看它们是否反映了埃及、近东和东地中海在所述时期看到的社会变化。来自艺术、金石学、文学和与其他同时代社会的跨文化比较的证据也将被用来分析纺织品、性别和技术创新的好处，这既是从区域间动态分析中获得的，也是从地方和区域尺度的背景分析中获得的。

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.