Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum: Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities (Occasional Paper)

Geoff Egan, Mike Cowell, Hero Granger Taylor

ISBN 10: 0861590937 / ISBN 13: 9780861590933

Published by see below, 1994

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1994 British Museum Press large format paperback edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition.

Seller Inventory # A3-ULA7-Z6X5

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum: Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities (Occasional Paper)
• Publisher: see below
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0861590937
• ISBN 13: 9780861590933
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medieval Studies

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Synopsis

Stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile industry during the late-medieval/early-modern period, attached to individual cloths as part of a system of industrial regulation and quality control. The survival of large numbers of the seals, many dating from the period that was crucial to the development of the draperies, was not widely appreciated until recently, even among textile historians. Recent finds have provided a great deal of new information, from which it is possible to learn significant details about the commodity which became England's single most important manufacture. This catalogue publishes over 350 cloth seals and matrices from England and the Continent in the British Museum, and includes an introduction to their use and significance.