Textiles include an unlimited and huge class of fabric tradition and represent an important a part of the traditional economic climate. but, reviews of classical antiquity nonetheless usually miss this significant classification of fabric tradition, partially a result of textiles themselves being merely hardly ever preserved within the archaeological list. This forget is additionally general in scholarship on old Greek faith and formality, even though it is likely one of the so much shiny and speedily constructing branches of classical scholarship. the purpose of the current enquiry is, for that reason, to introduce textiles into the examine of old Greek faith and thereby remove darkness from the jobs textiles performed within the functionality of Greek ritual and their wider results. one of the questions posed are how and the place we will become aware of using textiles within the sanctuaries, and the way they have been utilized in rituals together with their effect at the functionality of those rituals and the folks concerned. Chapters centre on 3 subject matters: first, the commitment of textiles and garments components in Greek sanctuaries is investigated via an intensive exam of the temple inventories. moment, using textiles to decorate old cult photographs is explored. The exam of Hellenistic and Roman copies of historical cult photographs from Asia Minor in addition to depictions of cult photographs in vase-painting in collocation with written assets illustrates the lifestyles of this actual ritual customized in historic Greece. 3rd, the lifestyles of costume codes within the Greek sanctuaries is addressed via an research of the life of specific clothes for ritual team of workers in addition to viewers to the sanctuaries with assistance from iconography and written resources. by means of merging the research of Greek faith and the learn of textiles, the present research illustrates how textiles are, certainly, relevant materialisations of Greek cult, due to their capability to intensify and epitomize points of id, spirituality, place within the non secular method, via their types as hyperlinks among the maker, consumer, wearer, but in addition as key fabric brokers within the functionality of rituals and verbal exchange with the divine.