André, Paul
1993 Tissues D’Egypte. Témoins du monde arabe VIIIe - XVe siècles. Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genève, Institut du monde arabe, Paris.

Color & black and white plates illustrate textile fragments and tunics; selections from the Collection Bouvier.

Baerlocher, Martin
1983 Grundlagen zur systematischen Erfassung koptischer Textilien. Graphische Betriebe Coop, Basel.

Doctoral dissertation concerning techniques and working methods, based upon a study of collections in the Basel Völkerkundemuseum. Numerous black&white explanatory diagrams.

Baginski, Alisa and Amalia Tidhar
1980 Textiles from Egypt 4th - 13th Centuries CE, Tavinit Press, Tel-Aviv.

Brief discussion with technical information about tapestry weaving, garments (tunics and their makeup), Byzantine dress, Persian costume, motifs (Classical and Oriental; later influences), craftsmanship, materials and their treatment prior to weaving.

Bichler, Peter
1989 Antike koptische Textilien aus Österreichischem Privatbesitz. Österreichische UNESCO-Kommission, Schallaburg.

Catalogue of an exhibition held 9 June - 15 October 1989, with brief object entries illustrated with b&w plates (some color), and introductory essays on cultural context, color, weaving techniques and tools; map of sites; tunic diagram.

Carroll, Diane Lee
1988 Looms and Textiles of the Copts, First Millennium Egyptian Textiles in the Carl Austin Rietz Collection of the California Academy of Sciences, The Academy of Sciences, Seattle.

Description of the technology used in creating Coptic textiles (loom development, spinning, treatment of fibers); literary and archaeological evidence to support descriptions of technological development. Discussion of Greek and Roman sources in the designs and concepts expressed by the motifs. Brief historical background followed by an illustrated catalogue.

DeMoor, Prof. Dr. A.
1993 Coptic Textiles From Flemish Private Collections, Provinciaal Archeologisch Museum van Zuid-Oost-Vlaanderen, Zottegem.

Brief historical background of decoration and technology used in Coptic textiles. Techniques of dye analysis and dating by radiocarbon analysis, glossary of terms, catalogue of textiles from the collections.

Erikson, Marianne
1997 Textiles in Egypt 200-1500AD in Swedish Museums Collections, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg.

Brief historical background with discussion of excavations and chronological problems. Technical information about fibers, dyeing and spinning. Description of weaving technology including tapestry weaving (e.g. eccentric wefts, dovetailing, soumak wrapping), sprang, and knitting. Discussion of patterns, motifs, styles and garments. Most of text is catalogue of 51 textile fragments with descriptions (incl. Late Antique, Coptic, medieval and Islamic textiles).

Friedman, Florence D. (ed.)
1988 Beyond the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th Centuries AD, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

Historical description of Egyptian background and everyday life in Roman Byzantine Egypt. Discussion of religion (e.g. Ancient Egyptian, Christianity, Monasticism, Gnosticism), and examination of the art and writing of the period, including discussion of textiles. Introduces the minor arts of Late Antique Egypt, Greek and Coptic manuscripts, and Early Christian architecture in the Nile Valley, a catalogue of the exhibition.

Gruber, Alain
1990 Jagdmotive auf Textilien van der Antike bis zum 18. Jahrhundert, Abegg-Stiftung Riggisberg, Switzerland.

Color plates of Coptic textile fragments mixed in with European textiles. Minimal description.

Lafontaine-Dosogne, Jacqueline and Daniel De Jonghe
1989 Textiles Coptes. Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire, Brussels.

Black & white plates, with accompanying essays exploring technical and iconographic aspects of Coptic textiles, based on collections of the Musées royaux d’art et d’histoire.

Martiniani-Reber, Marielle, Claude Ritschard, Georgette Cornu, Barbara Raster
1991 Tissus Coptes, vols. 1-2, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève, Genève.

Vol. I: Few color plates combined with a list of vocabulary used to describe Coptic textiles with some technical descriptions. Vol. II: Black&white plates with some description.

Nauerth, Claudia
1989 Die koptischen Textilien der Sammlung Wilhelm Rautenstrauch im Stadtischen Museum Simeonstift Trier, Stadtischen Museums Simeonstift, Trier.

Descriptions of tunics; black&white plates with brief descriptions.

Renner-Volbach, Dorothee
1988 Die koptischen Textilien im Museo Missionario Etnologico der Vatikanischen Museen, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.

Black&white plates with minimal description.

Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène
1990 Coptic Fabrics, Adam Biro, Paris.

Descriptions of the making of the cloth from spinning and dyeing of fibers to execution on the loom. Discussion of the importance of the textiles in the economy. Stylistic evolution, history, and the use of decorated fabrics and problems of placing the textile fragments in a cultural chronology; influences (e.g. Greco-Roman, Oriental, Christian iconography).

Stauffer, Annemarie
1991 Textiles d’ Egypt de la Collection Bouvier, Musée d’art et d’ histoire, Fribourg, Bern.

Catalogue of black&white and color plates with detailed descriptions.

1992 Spätantike und koptische Wirkereien. Peter Lang, Bern.

Dissertation on textile iconography in the Late Antique world and early Middle Ages to after the Arab conquests; catalogue entries and black&white illustrations.

Török, László
1993 Coptic Antiquities II, L’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome.

Published collections from the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. Includes a short introduction describing the interest of early collectors in the art of post-Pharaonic Egypt, excavations in the late 19th & early 20th century, and origins of the collections in the two museums.

Trilling, James
1982 The Roman Heritage: Textiles from Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean 300 to 600 AD, The Textile Museum, Washington (reprinted from The Textile Museum Journal, vol. 21).

Brief discussion of Late Roman tapestry, with b&w plates showing examples with minimal description. Includes textiles with patterns in weft-loop-pile, and drawloom textiles in wool and silk (no cotton).

Compiled 3/31/98 by Karen J. Ayers, Intern