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Decor & Decorum
Printed Textiles in the 20th Century Printed textiles have been used extensively for interior furnishings and dress fabrics. The fact that printed designs could be made fairly quickly by block printing, screening or roller printing and less expensively than woven fabrics, has made them a fertile
Couture & Commerce
The transatlantic fashion trade in the 1950s Alexandra's book Couture & Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s, University of British Columbia Press and the Royal Ontario Museum (2001) discusses many couture dresses in the ROM collection and traces their histories from the
Old Clothes, New Looks: Second Hand Fashion
History of the second hand fashion trade Alexandra Palmer is co-editor with Hazel Clark, of a collection of essays by leading international scholars writing on the history of the second hand fashion trade in Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and Africa. The book covers the time frame from the
Fashion: A Canadian Perspective
Historical essays on Canadian fashion Fashion: A Canadian Perspective is a book of historical essays on Canadian fashion that is the first to draw together new research on Canadian fashion design, fashion advertising and consumption. This book breaks new ground in that it discusses not only the
Theban Tomb #89 Epigraphic Project
Theban Tomb #89 was built by Amenmose who served King Amenhotep III (1391-1353 BC), King Tutankhamun’s grandfather. The tomb is located on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, Egypt, among some 500 tombs that dot the hillside, dating roughly from 1500- 1200 BC. The project’s goal is to record
Hollow-Brick Han Tomb
During the Han Dynasty, stone and brick tombs of the wealthy were subterranean residences adorned with decorated walls and furnished with everything the occupant might need in the hereafter. At the south end of the ROM Gallery of Chinese Architecture lie two reconstructions of Han Dynasty tombs
The Shandong Project
Upper Palaeolithic microblade technology Begun in 2000, this research project investigates the origin and development of microblade technology in the Upper Palaeolithic of north-central China (30,000- 8,000 BC). The microblade technique is a unique flint-knapping method of manufacturing thin small
The Luonan Project
Lower Palaeolithic settlement of the Middle Pleistocene The Luonan Basin is located about 1000 meters above sea level, in the valleys of the Qingling Mountains. This research project investigates the settlement pattern of Lower Palaeolithic sites in the small basin. Prior to 1995, little was known
The Nihewan Project
The Early Pleistocene hominid occupations in East Asia (1.8 – 1 million years ago) This project’s objective is to find archaeological evidence related to hominid behaviours as well as the earliest hominid fossils in the Nihewan Basin, located in Hebei province about 150 km northwest from
Chinese Coins
The ROM is one of few museums in the world with a collection of comprehensive Chinese coins. The collection was researched to create a numismatic timeline for the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China. The display of 88 coins includes the best examples from the 3rd century BC to the end of the