Corrado, CrispinHansen, IngeMcGee, Hannah Mohona Louise2024-06-062024-06-062023McGee, Hannah Mohona Louise. "Untangling the (Beaded) Net: A Study of Textiles and the Star-And-Dot Pattern in the House of the Ladies". Master's Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2023.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/119Master of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Spring 2023.Minoan textiles have long fascinated scholars, who study every aspect from their intricatepatterns to the ways they connect the Minoans to their environment and other lands. At the sametime, there is a significant lack of physical evidence of Minoan textiles. Thus, archaeologistsmust turn to their depiction in frescoes in order to hypothesize what these textiles might havebeen made of, what function they had in Minoan society, and what they could tell us about howthe Minoans saw both themselves and their neighbors across the Aegean. This thesis primarilyfocuses on one of these represented textiles, the so-called star-and-dot pattern from the House ofthe Ladies at Akrotiri. While this pattern has been given some attention by archaeologists andtextile historians, there are still no concrete conclusions. This research seeks to investigate thepattern, and to study its manufacture, its relationship to its surroundings, and its connections tothe other frescoes in Akrotiri and the wider Aegean. This thesis also examines the use of exoticain Minoan culture, and realistically positions Akrotiri as a trading hub that would have come intocontact with other cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean.vi, 46 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Ancient decoration and ornamentAncient textile fabricsAegean Sea RegionBronze ageThesis