Textile arts and artworks Books
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Threads Around the World
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Fun, full of surprises, and a valuable contribution to understanding a wide range of cultures, something sorely needed in this ever more conflicted world. Written in bite-sized chapters, with stunning photography . . . recommended for textile lovers and world travelers alike.” —Deborah Chandler, author of Traditional Weavers of Guatemala and Learning to Weave“Amplifies the thread that connects all fans of cloth-making together, while offering a deep sense of place.” —Liz Gipson, author of Weaving Made Easy and host of the Yarnworker School of Weaving“Once in a while, a book comes along that reminds us why textiles are so integral to human endeavors. This is a book to savor.” —Sara Lamb, weaver and author of Spin to Weave“Deb Brandon is a lover of textiles and it shows in this personal textile journey of a broad range of techniques from around the world and the people who master them.” —Jane Patrick, Creative Director of Schacht Spindle Company“A global tour marked by depth, insight, and intrigue . . . a gift for textile enthusiasts and for the future.” —Linda Ligon, Founder of Interweave Press and Director of Thrums Books
£21.84
HarperCollins Focus How to Stitch an American Dream
Book SynopsisHow to Stitch an American Dream recounts Jenny Doan’s journey from raising a family and crafting a life built on faith, love, and laughter to fulfilling her dream of launching the Missouri Star Quilt Company--and revitalizing a small town along the way.
£22.39
MW - Rutgers University Press Costume Makeup and Hair Behind the Silver Screen
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fascinating book taking a broad historical approach to three interrelated Hollywood crafts—costume, hair, and makeup—linking them to important economic, cultural, and technological changes in the film industry and American society." -- Lucy Fischer * University of Pittsburgh *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Adrienne L. McLean1 The Silent Screen, 1895–1927 Drake Stutesman2 Classical Hollywood, 1928–1946 Mary Desjardins3 Postwar Hollywood, 1947–1967 Prudence Black and Karen de Perthuis4 The Auteur Renaissance, 1968–1980 Robin Blaetz5 The New Hollywood, 1981–1999 Tamar Jeffers McDonald6 The Modern Entertainment Marketplace, 2000-Present James Castonguay Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, Best Makeup, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling Notes Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
£999.99
Rizzoli International Publications Red and White Quilts Infinite Variety Presented
Book SynopsisThis significant catalog is a highly detailed look at the world’s most celebrated collection of red and white quilts. Like the Log Cabin or Baltimore-style, the red and white quilt is a hugely popular genre of quilting. Colorfast Turkey red dye became readily available in the mid-nineteenth century, so red and white quilts became extremely popular, due not only to the newness of the color but also because of the extremely vibrant and punchy contrasting color scheme. Featuring over 650 quilts from the past three centuries, this book is filled with the gorgeous and imaginative designs of feathered stars, diamonds, animals, oak leaves, baskets, lettering, and snowflakes, as well as fascinating examples of careful embroidery and appliqué. With inspiring handiwork, designs, and visual histories, this book exemplifies the sheer magnitude and poetry of red and white quilts and is a staple compendium of this beloved art form.Trade Review"Organized by type, from traditional patchworks and log cabin varieties to decorative applique examples, this perfect coffee-table topper spans three centuries and includes a foreword by Martha Stewart." -VOGUE.COM"What’s the response to seeing all of these quilts assembled in a single book?The answer: Breathless astonishment at the grandeur of this American domestic art.There is much to love in Red & White Quilts: Infinite Variety — on virtually every page."-PATRICK T. REARDON.COM "[Red and White Quilts] includes not only photographs of each of the 653 quilts in the exhibit grouped by theme, but also contains essays by key players in the development and design of the show itself, making what was already visually inspiring that much more impressive an accomplishment for how logistical challenges were met with creativity and innovation.-QUILTERS NEWSLETTER"Whether you missed the exhibition or adored it, this tome [Red and White Quilts: Infinite Variety] offers a compelling testament to the power of pattern."-ARCHITECTURAL DIGESTEvery quilt jumps off its glossy page in Red and White Quilts: Infinite Variety. Half a dozen full-color, you-are-there photographs set the scene, bringing the reader right onto the floor of the armory along with people gaping, pointing, snapping photos on their smartphones, swarming the museum shop for souvenirs. -THE EAST HAMPTON STAR"This is a book that one can open at any spot and peruse. The excellent color photographs coupled with the dazzling variety of patterns compels the reader to keep turning pages and to return to the book again and again for an immersive optical experience." - TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA"Red and White Quilts: Infinite Variety is a seriously stunning compilation." -COUNTRY LIVING MAGAZINE
£42.75
Michigan State University Press African American Quiltmaking in Michigan
Book SynopsisMakes a valuable historical contribution and is the first book on the quiltmaking traditions of African Americans in Michigan.
£999.99
Getty Trust Publications The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries
Book SynopsisContributors discuss current research, new findings, and specific problems, innovations, methods, and materials.
£999.99
Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. Nini Towoks Spinning Wheel
Book SynopsisEach type of cloth made in Kerek is created for a specific purpose - to be worn by a person of a particular age, social or residential group; to serve in life-cycle events such as marriage or funerals; and to act as a focal point in agricultural ceremonies or curing rites. This book deals with this topic.Trade Review"What makes this book especially appealing is its richness of colorful illustrations. . . . [I]t should appeal to readers who are interested in material culture, especially decorative arts, and its symbolic meaning. . . . an inspiring work . . ." -- B. Retang Wohangara * Journal of Folklore Research *"The title refers to the Javanese goddess who sends her yarn to Earth in the form of moonbeams. . . . Illustrations provide a look at pattern and dress styles, village life, and color in relation to life cycles and the cardinal directions." * Fiberarts *
£18.99
Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe
Book SynopsisIn the past, girls from rural southeastern Europe spent their childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that upon reaching puberty they could join the Sunday afternoon village dances garbed in resplendent attire. This book features fifty nineteenth - and twentieth-century ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, and Albania.
£26.59
Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. Textiles of Timor Island in the Woven Sea
Book SynopsisTimor 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 cultural history of the Timorese peoples as a whole. Handwoven cotton garments serve as markers of identity and nurture social relationships when they are exchanged. Women in Timor weave an impressive variety of cloth, routinely combining more weaving techniques than any other region of Southeast Asia. This technical prowess and diversity of design make weaving the most important form of artistic expression in Timor and allow groups as small as individual families to proclaim their unique heritage. Independence for Timor-Leste (East Timor) in 2002 - following invasion by Indonesia and years of violent warfare (19751999) - brought with it more stable conditions and improved access for researchers. Textiles of Timor, Island in the Woven Sea brings together for thTrade Review"Individuals seeking an introduction to the textiles of Timor as well as serious researchers in a variety of fields, in and out of textiles, will have plenty to explore in this well-researched and well-documented book." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword / Marla C. Berns Acknowledgments / Roy W. Hamilton and Joanna Barrkman Notes on Nomenclature / Roy W. Hamilton 1. Culture, History, and Weaving in Timor / Roy W. Hamilton 2. Textile Style Ares in Timor / Roy W. Hamilton and Joanna Barrkman with a contribution by Rosalia Elisa Madeira Soares 3. Plants as the Pivot: The Ethnobotany of Timorese Textiles / Anthony B. Cunningham, Willy Doas Kadati, Jose Ximenes, Jean Howe, I Made Maduarta, and William Ingram 4. Early Textiles from Timor / Ruth Barnes 5. Textiles of Oecusse: A Personal Account / Willy Daos Kadati with Anne Finch 6. "She Comes with a Spindle in Her Hand": Biboki Textiles / Joanna Barrkman 7. Malaka Regency: Cloth of the Plain, Cloth of the Hills / Roy W. Hamilton and Yahannes Nahak Taromi 8. Textiles of Suai Loro and Camenaca / Joanna Barrkman 9. Continuity and Change in the Kemak Textiles of Marobo / Joanna Barrkman 10. Alfred Buhler's Collection from Baguia at the Museum der Kulturen, Basel / Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff 11. Loss and Return: Personal Stories of Fataluku Weavers / Jill Forshee Notes to the Text References Cited Index Exhibition List Contributors
£37.05
Fowler Museum Visualizing Devotion
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£35.96
Quarry Books Color Play Crochet
£20.57
University Press of New England Massachusetts Quilts
Book SynopsisThe definitive treasury of Massachusetts's historic quilts, and a tribute to the creative spirit of their makers
£999.99
Maize Books Heidi Kumao: Real and Imagined
Book SynopsisHer work is in permanent and private collections including the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Arizona State University Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
£999.99
Michigan State University Press Remembering the AIDS Quilt
Book SynopsisA collaborative creation unlike any other, the Names Project Foundation’s AIDS Memorial Quilt has played an invaluable role in shattering the silence and stigma that surrounded the epidemic in the first years of its existence. Designed by Cleve Jones, the AIDS Quilt is the largest ongoing community arts project in the world. Since its conception in 1987, the Quilt has transformed the cultural and political responses to AIDS in the U.S. Representative of both marginalized and mainstream peoples, the Quilt contains crucial material and symbolic implications for mourning the dead, and the treatment and prevention of AIDS. However, the project has raised numerous questions concerning memory, activism, identity, ownership, and nationalism, as well as issues of sexuality, race, class, and gender.As thought-provoking as the Quilt itself, this diverse collection of essays by ten prominent rhetorical scholars provides a rich experience of the AIDS Quilt, incorporating a variety of perspectives, critiques, and interpretations.
£999.99
Pegasus Books All the Rage
Book SynopsisA panoramic social history that chronicles the quest for beauty in all its contradictions—and how it affects the female body.Women have been fat or slim, hyperthyroid or splenetic, sallow or pink-cheeked, slouched or erect, according to the prevalent notions of beauty. —Cecil Beaton, The Glass of Fashion Who decides what is fashionable? What clothes we wear, what hairstyles we create, what color lipstick we adore, what body shape is all the rage. The story of female adornment from 1860-1960 is intriguingly unbuttoned in this glorious social history. Virginia Nicholson has long been fascinated by the way we women present ourselves—or are encouraged to present ourselves—to the world. In this book, we learn about rational dress, suffragettes’ hats, the Marcel wave, the Gibson Girls, corsets, and the banana skirt. At the centre of this story is the female body, in all its diversity—fat, thin, short, tall, brown, wh
£25.44
Laurence King Publishing Pattern Cutting for Menswear Second Edition
Book SynopsisPattern Cutting for Menswear is a comprehensive guide to cutting patterns, from basic skills to advanced techniques. With over twenty complete patterns, including new jacket and trouser styles, this revised edition features additional sections on the leg stride relationship in the development of certain trouser styles, fabric properties and their effect on cut and drape, fitting techniques for structured jackets, and the latest information on pattern CAD-based technologies. The step-by-step approach, complete with scaled diagrams and technical flats, fashion illustrations and photographs of toiles, enables you to cut patterns with confidence.
£36.00
Oxbow Books Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colourful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from depictions such as sculpture, vase painting, figurines, reliefs and mosaics. Commonly represented in clothing, textiles are also present in furnishings and through the processes of textile production. The challenge for anyone analysing ancient iconography is determining how we interpret what we see. As preserved textiles rarely survive in comparable forms, we must consider the extent to which representations of textiles reflect reality, and critically evaluate the sources. Images are not simple replicas or photographs of reality. Instead, iconography draws on select elements from the surrounding world that were recognisable to the ancient audience, and reveal the perceptions, ideologies, and ideas of the society in which they were produced. Through examining the durable evidence, this anthology reveals the ephemeral world of textiles and their integral role in the daily life, cult and economy of the ancient Mediterranean.Table of ContentsPreface Author biographies 1. Introduction: Approaching textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography Cecilie Brøns, Susanna Harris, and Marta Żuchowska 2. Textile Production in Aegean Glyptic: Interpreting small-scale representations on seals and sealings from Bronze Age Greece Agata Ulanowska 3. Textiles and Iconography in the Bronze Age Aegean Scripts: tela logogram and the ligatured endogram te Rachele Pierini 4. Loom or Lyre: A dual reading of iconography from the Iron Age II site of Kunitllet ‘Ajrud Thaddeus Nelson 5. Abundance and Splendour: Textiles on Archaic Greek statues of young women (korai) Susanna Harris 6. The Color of Cult: Artemis Brauronia and the krokotos Daphne Martin 7. Furniture Textiles in Classical and Hellenistic Iconography Demi Andrianou 8. Ideology, Gender and Textile Production: The iconography of women in the Iberian Culture Riccardo Basso Rial 9. All that Glitters is Gold: Golden textiles in the ancient Mediterranean Cecilie Brøns 10. Arachne Revisited: Hubris and Technology in the Forum Transitorium Frieze, Rome Magdalena Öhrman 11. Fringed Clothing in Roman Iconography and Written Sources Kelly Olson 12. Between Realism and Artistic Convention: Woollen mantles in the iconography of Roman Palmyra Marta Żuchowska 13. Reading Dress and Identity in the Roman Mosaics of Carthage and Tabarka Amy Place 14. Epilogue Mary Harlow Glossary Index
£58.85
Paths International Ltd Gambiered Canton Gauze: Ethereal Silk Fabric from
Book SynopsisAs an important part of Chinese culture, Lingnan culture, mainly those in Guangdong province, plays a key role in the world culture. Elegant Guangdong Series cover 5 subjects of the Lingnan cultural and traditional gems in South China. Each volume has used vivid and precious illustrations and portraits.Gambiered Canton Gauze outlines the birth, evolution, dyeing and finishing process, prospect of this ethereal silk fabric in South China.
£15.19
Archetype Publications Ltd Textiles and Text
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£99.98
Brepols N.V. The Hidden Life of Textiles in the Medieval and
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£90.25
Bohlau Verlag William Morris und die Buchmalerei
Book SynopsisZeit seines Lebens fasziniert die mittelalterliche Buchmalerei den englischen Kunstler, Schriftsteller und Sammler William Morris. Seine kunstlerischen Entwurfe wie die Ausgestaltung eigener Handschriften und schliealich sein Engagement als Sammler sind davon beeinflusst. Mit diesem Buch legt Michaela Braesel eine umfassende Darstellung seiner praktischen und theoretischen Auseinandersetzung mit der Buchmalerei vor. Die unterschiedlichen Aspekte seiner Beschaftigung mit Handschriften beleuchtet sie aus textkritischer, stilanalytischer, ikonographischer und wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Sicht. Dabei offenbaren sich die Relevanz und das Innovative von Morris'' Position innerhalb der Buchkunst des 19. Jahrhunderts.
£128.47
Bohlau Verlag Textile Moderne / Textile Modernism
Book SynopsisErstmals werden in diesem Buch die textilen Künste als avantgardistische (Kultur-)Techniken und das Textile als künstlerisches Experimentierfeld der Zeit zwischen 1850 und 1950 in den Blick genommen. Im Fokus stehen dabei Techniken wie Stickerei, Weberei und Applikation sowie Ausdrucksformen wie Textilbilder, Wandteppiche, Wohntextilien und Mode. Die Beiträge internationaler Autor_innen werden von Fragen zu Material, Experiment, Intermedialität, Gender, Translokalität und Globalität, zu textilen Architekturen und Sammlungen geleitet. Sie bieten innovative Perspektiven auf ein noch wenig erschlossenes Themenfeld und tragen so zu einer Neubewertung der textilen Künste der Moderne bei.
£58.69
Bohlau Verlag Cotton in Context: Manufacturing, Marketing, and
Book SynopsisWhile cotton was a world-changing good in the early modern period, for producers, merchants, and consumers, it was but one of many different fabrics. This volume explores this dichotomy by contextualizing cotton within its contemporary culture of textiles. In doing, it focuses on a long, under-researched region: the German-speaking world, particularly Switzerland, which transformed into one of the most prolific European regions for the production of printed cottons in the eighteenth century. Sixteen contributions investigate the (globally entangled) history of Indiennes, silk, wool, and embroideries, giving new insights into the manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of textiles between 1500 and 1900.
£115.87
Harrassowitz Uber Stoff Und Stein: Knotenpunkte Von
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£999.99
Dietrich Reimer Textiles Entwerfen in Serie: Nahtlosigkeit ALS
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£46.55
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Textile Workers: Skills, Labour and Status of
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£104.50
Gebruder Mann Verlag Der Tschechoslowakische Werkbund Und Der Werkbund
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£999.99
Gebruder Mann Verlag Musterhaft Naturgetreu: Tiere in Seiden,
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£86.45
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Nesa Gschwend - Memories of Textiles
Book SynopsisSwiss artist Nesa Gschwend, born 1959 in St. Gallen, merges traditional crafts, such as embroidery, knitting, and sewing, with avant-garde and performative artistic techniques. Widely recognised as one of Switzerland's most distinguished contemporary artists, her art also combines craft with philosophy. Her textile works, material collages, videos, installations, and participatory performances transform individual lived stories into tangible metaphors for collective memory, for human existence itself. This new book features recent work by Nesa Gschwend. The essays explore her approach and describe her humanistic aspiration to transform existential questions into aesthetic reflection. Text in English and German.
£999.99
J.H. Roll Verlag Fritz Griebel. Leidenschaft Fur
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£90.25
Edition Imorde Arachnes Kunst: Textilhandwerk, Textilien Und Die
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£38.96
Edizioni Terra Santa Sacred Vestments: From Europe to the Holy Land
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£131.10
Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren A Contextual Study of Brussels Tapestry,
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£59.85
KIT Publishers Highlights from the Korea Collection of
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£40.55
KIT Publishers Flowers from Universe: Textiles of Java
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£47.56
