Nancy Arthur Hoskins, a former college weaving instructor, is the author of three books; over a hundred articles; and has contributed chapters about Egyptian textiles to five other books. Nancy has researched Pharaonic, Coptic, and Early Islamic textile collections in over 80 museums and has presented lectures and workshops for national and international guilds, conferences, universities and museums. Hoskins’ art fabrics have been in solo, group, and invitational exhibits. She was the guest teacher on five Textiles of Egypt Tours.
Ancient Patterned Fabrics Found in Aegean and Egyptian Art
Complex Weavers members have essential skills to contribute to experimental archaeological research on ancient and ethnic textiles.The extraordinary patterned fabrics found in Aegean frescoes and Egyptian paintings are testimony that the materials, methods, and skill to weave complex patterns was understood in the Mediterranean world during the Late Bronze Age. To demonstrate the painted fabric patterns were not figments of the artists’ imagination, I wove recreations of hundreds of patterns analyzed from the paintings. Complex Weavers Journal articles describing the fabrics will be published in a compilation in 2026, making them available to Egyptologists, archaeologists, and textile historians. This seminar will recount a personal quest begun in 1983.
