This detailed analysis of 64 Coptic Textiles of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts incorporates the perspective of weavers and their working environment, thereby highlighting their knowledge base and the broader cultural impact of their activity and products.

Wendy Landry, PhD (Concordia University, 2011) is an experienced weaver and scholar of textiles history. She has taught and presented extensively about textiles. Her book, Velvet on My Mind, Velvet on My Loom, is forthcoming in 2020 (Schiffer).
Anne-Laure Rameau, MA in Métiers du patrimoines (Saint-Etienne, 2006), She is Registrar at Musée lorrain de Nancy and is also on the council for the French committee of Blue Shield and for the French Artwork Registrars' Association. She worked on this catalogue during her internship at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts under the supervision of Dr. John M. Fossey.
Abigaëlle Richard, PhD (Université de Montréal, 2011) is an anthropologist and iconographer concentrating on the evolution of the ancient Egyptian canon of representation, from the Middle to the New Kingdom. she has also investigated the representations of sexuality and dance in the tombs of the New Kingdom. She worked on this catalogue during her internship at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts under the supervision of Dr. John M. Fossey.
Editors:
Beaudoin Caron, D ès L (1986) in Roman history and archaeology Université de Grenoble III, teaches classical archaeology at the Université de Montréal. He has published mainly on Roman glass, as well as on other aspects of ancient material culture.

John M. Fossey, D ès L (Lyon II, 1976), FRSC, FSA, is Emeritus Professor at McGill University and Emeritus Curator of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He has published monographs on Greek archaeology, epigraphy and prosopography. He has excavated in Greece, Georgia, Bulgaria and Britain.


Assistant Editors: Marilie Jacob & Alexis Lemond-Vachon