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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...

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...

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...