A wide-ranging and varied collection of essays which examine surviving garments, methods of production and clothes in society.

Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Production, Quality, and Social Status in Viking Age Dress: Three Cases from Western Norway - Ingvild Oye
The Effect of Spindle Whorl Design on Wool Thread Production: A Practical Experiment Based on Examples from Eighth-Century Denmark - Karen Nicholson
The Shirt Attributed to St. Louis - Tina Anderlini
Angevin-Sicilian Sumptuary Statutes of the 1290s: Fashion in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean - Sarah-Grace Heller
The Devil on My Tail: Clothing and Visual Culture in the Camposanto Last Judgment - Cordelia Warr
"Transposing þe shapus þat God first mad them of": Manipulated Masculinity in the Galaunt Tradition - Emily J. Rozier
Textiles and Dress in the Household Papers of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509), Mother of King Henry VII - Susan Powell
"Like two artificial gods": Needlework and Female Bonding in A Midsummer Night's Dream - Anna Riehl Bertolet