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Stitching Love and Loss
A Gee's Bend Quilt
In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the time...
ISBN: 9780295751603
more detailsAboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End
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 the Northern Territory: Tiwi Design, Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association, Injalak Arts and...
ISBN: 9780998044507
more detailsTextiles in Burman Culture
This pioneering work traces the history and evolution of the textiles of Myanmar (Burma) made and used by the Burman (Bama) ethnic majority. Written accessibly, it covers the importance of textiles in many contexts as...
ISBN: 9786162151637
more detailsMaking Kantha, Making Home
Women at Work in Colonial Bengal
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...
ISBN: 9780295746999
more detailsDressed with Distinction
Garments from Ottoman Syria
For hundreds of years, skilled craftspeople in the Syrian centers of Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs produced intricately woven textiles for the royal courts, worldly merchants, and elite Bedouin families of the Ottoman Empire. City dwellers...
ISBN: 9780990762690
more detailsEmpire 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 thriving cultures of...
ISBN: 9780295745305
more detailsFlowers 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 associations of Alit Djajasoebrata. Ajajasoebrata grew...
ISBN: 9789460224478
more detailsIndonesian 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 colony, the former...
ISBN: 9789460223907
more detailsAfrican-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 styles created by local seamstresses and tailors across the continent; international...
ISBN: 9780990762638
more detailsTextiles 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 intimately linked to the...
ISBN: 9780984755080
more detailsThe 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 Peruvian weavers wove each textile to the...
ISBN: 9780984755059
more detailsSymmetry 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, mathematicians, and designers. Central to symmetry analysis is the use...
ISBN: 9780295983660
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