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Empire of Style
Silk and Fashion in Tang China
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...
ISBN: 9780295745305
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Flowers from Universe
Textiles of Java
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...
ISBN: 9789460224478
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Symmetry Comes of Age
The Role of Pattern in Culture
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,...
ISBN: 9780295983660
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Indonesian Textiles at the Tropenmuseum
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...
ISBN: 9789460223907
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African-Print Fashion Now!
A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style
African-Print Fashion Now! introduces visitors to a dynamic and diverse African dress tradition and the increasingly interconnected fashion worlds that it inhabits: “popular” African-print...
ISBN: 9780990762638
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The Rajah Quilt
One of the world’s most important textiles, the Rajah quilt is a major focus of the National Gallery of Australia’s textiles collection. The quilt was made by women convicts on board the ship...
ISBN: 9780642334589
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Textiles of Timor, Island in the Woven Sea
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...
ISBN: 9780984755080
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The Peruvian Four-Selvaged Cloth
Ancient Threads / New Directions
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...
ISBN: 9780984755059
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