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Stitching Love and Loss

A Gee's Bend Quilt

By Lisa Gail Collins

Winner of the 2023 Horowitz Prize by the Bard Graduate Center

Shortlisted for the 2024 Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum

A meditation on suffering, resilience, creativity, and grace

In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly...

Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End

By Joanna Barrkman

Traces the development and contributions of Aboriginal-owned art centers to contemporary art and expression

Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End presents the work of contemporary Australian textile artists working at five Aboriginal-owned art centers in...

Textiles in Burman Culture

By Sylvia Fraser-Lu

Winner of the R.L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award, sponsored by the Textile Society of America

This pioneering work traces the history and evolution of the textiles of Myanmar (Burma) made and used by the Burman...

Making Kantha, Making Home

Women at Work in Colonial Bengal

By Pika Ghosh

In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use...

Dressed with Distinction

Garments from Ottoman Syria

By Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood. Introduction by Joanna Barrkman

A lavishly illustrated collection of Syrian textiles from the turn of the twentieth century

For hundreds of years, skilled craftspeople in the Syrian centers of Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs produced intricately woven textiles for the royal...

Empire of Style

Silk and Fashion in Tang China

By BuYun Chen

Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of...

Flowers from Universe

Textiles of Java

By Alit Djajasoebrata

Java's original textile art is the perfect medium for telling stories of ancient Javanese culture.

Flowers from Universe: Textiles of Java is based, first and foremost, on the memories and associations of Alit Djajasoebrata. Ajajasoebrata grew...

Indonesian Textiles at the Tropenmuseum

By I. C. van Hout

The Tropenmuseum Amsterdam houses about 12,000 textile objects that were collected over a period of 160 years. The majority of the objects were amassed during the time that Indonesia was a Dutch colony, the former...

Textiles of Timor, Island in the Woven Sea

By Roy W. Hamilton, Joanna Barrkman

Timor has been a divided island at least since the seventeenth century when Dutch and Portuguese colonial empires competed for its control. Despite this fragmentation, the weaving of cloth has remained intimately linked to the...

The Peruvian Four-Selvaged Cloth

Ancient Threads / New Directions

By Elena Phipps

In this beautifully illustrated book, textile expert Elena Phipps examines the ancient Peruvian process of weaving textiles with four finished selvages, or edges. Without cutting a thread, master Peruvian weavers wove each textile to the...

Symmetry Comes of Age

The Role of Pattern in Culture

By Dorothy K. Washburn, Donald W. Crowe

This is the companion volume to the authors' groundbreaking Symmetries of Culture, the classic reference for symmetry analysis of pattern for anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, mathematicians, and designers. Central to symmetry analysis is the use...