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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

List of Figures xiii

Series Editor’s Preface xvii

Notes on Contributors xix

General Introduction 1

Part I Histories and Frameworks 7

1 Unraveling the Fabric of the Past: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Archaeological Textiles 11
Margarita Gleba

2 Textile Cultures in the Early Modern World 27
Robert S. DuPlessis

3 Rewriting Textile Culture with Woven Words: “Oro es tu hilar” by Chilean Poet Cecilia Vicuña 45
Meredith G. Clark

4 Branding Tradition: The Commercialization of Hand Embroidery in Gujarat 61
Eiluned Edwards

5 “The Real Thing”: How Object Analysis Unlocks Meaning and Enriches Documentary Evidence 83
Adrienne D. Hood

Part II Textiles, Trade, and Global Culture 105

6 Reading Textiles: Transmission and Technology of Silk Road Textiles in the First Millennium 109
Angela Sheng

7 West Africa: Technology, Tradition, and Lurex Revisited 127
John Picton

8 Textiles of Eastern and Southern Africa 145
Chris Spring

9 Remaking Tradition in Art and Design in Pakistan 165
Naazish Ata‐Ullah, Zeb Bilal and Shehnaz Ismail

Part III The Social Fabric: The Politics and Poetics of Cloth 181

10 Fabricating Identity: Textiles in the Pacific 187
Paul Sharrad

11 Stitching (in) Trauma: Constructing Identity in Thread Behind Prison Bars 201
Maureen Daly Goggin

12 Creative Tensions: Making (It), Unmaking, and Making Do in Textiles Informed by Feminism 219
Alexandra Kokoli

13 Spinning a Yarn of One’s Own 235
Christine Checinska

14 Pictures and Polemics: Muslim Veiling Practices in Contemporary Art 257
Valerie Behiery

15 The Subversive Stitch Revisited 275
Lisa Vinebaum

Part IV Conceptual Boundaries 299

16 Modernism’s Roots in the Domestic, Decorative, and Vernacular Through Textiles 303
Virginia Gardner Troy

17 Material Strategies: Cloth and Textile Metaphors in Modern and Contemporary Art 317
Jennifer Harris

18 Pragmatics of Attachment and Detachment: A Constellatory Reinscription of Textile 333
Maxine Bristow

19 Japanese Textile Culture: The Example of Junichi Arai and Five Other Creators 353
Akiko Moriyama

20 Stories of Innovation: Fabrication in Africa and Beyond 371
Atta Kwami

Part V Reception and Representation 391

21 Around the World in 80 Biennials: Curating Lausanne, Hangzhou, Kaunas 395
Janis Jefferies and Lee Weinberg

22 Indigenous Textiles of North America: A Century of Exhibitions 417
Elizabeth Kalbfleisch and Janet Catherine Berlo

23 Valorizing Gee’s Bend Quilts: Affinity, Adjacency, and the Modern Eye 435
Karin E. Peterson and Leisa Rundquist

24 Performing the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, Syncretism, and Globalization 459
Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

Index 475

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      Publication Date: 31/08/2020
      ISBN13: 9781118768907, 978-1118768907
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      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments xi

      List of Figures xiii

      Series Editor’s Preface xvii

      Notes on Contributors xix

      General Introduction 1

      Part I Histories and Frameworks 7

      1 Unraveling the Fabric of the Past: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Archaeological Textiles 11
      Margarita Gleba

      2 Textile Cultures in the Early Modern World 27
      Robert S. DuPlessis

      3 Rewriting Textile Culture with Woven Words: “Oro es tu hilar” by Chilean Poet Cecilia Vicuña 45
      Meredith G. Clark

      4 Branding Tradition: The Commercialization of Hand Embroidery in Gujarat 61
      Eiluned Edwards

      5 “The Real Thing”: How Object Analysis Unlocks Meaning and Enriches Documentary Evidence 83
      Adrienne D. Hood

      Part II Textiles, Trade, and Global Culture 105

      6 Reading Textiles: Transmission and Technology of Silk Road Textiles in the First Millennium 109
      Angela Sheng

      7 West Africa: Technology, Tradition, and Lurex Revisited 127
      John Picton

      8 Textiles of Eastern and Southern Africa 145
      Chris Spring

      9 Remaking Tradition in Art and Design in Pakistan 165
      Naazish Ata‐Ullah, Zeb Bilal and Shehnaz Ismail

      Part III The Social Fabric: The Politics and Poetics of Cloth 181

      10 Fabricating Identity: Textiles in the Pacific 187
      Paul Sharrad

      11 Stitching (in) Trauma: Constructing Identity in Thread Behind Prison Bars 201
      Maureen Daly Goggin

      12 Creative Tensions: Making (It), Unmaking, and Making Do in Textiles Informed by Feminism 219
      Alexandra Kokoli

      13 Spinning a Yarn of One’s Own 235
      Christine Checinska

      14 Pictures and Polemics: Muslim Veiling Practices in Contemporary Art 257
      Valerie Behiery

      15 The Subversive Stitch Revisited 275
      Lisa Vinebaum

      Part IV Conceptual Boundaries 299

      16 Modernism’s Roots in the Domestic, Decorative, and Vernacular Through Textiles 303
      Virginia Gardner Troy

      17 Material Strategies: Cloth and Textile Metaphors in Modern and Contemporary Art 317
      Jennifer Harris

      18 Pragmatics of Attachment and Detachment: A Constellatory Reinscription of Textile 333
      Maxine Bristow

      19 Japanese Textile Culture: The Example of Junichi Arai and Five Other Creators 353
      Akiko Moriyama

      20 Stories of Innovation: Fabrication in Africa and Beyond 371
      Atta Kwami

      Part V Reception and Representation 391

      21 Around the World in 80 Biennials: Curating Lausanne, Hangzhou, Kaunas 395
      Janis Jefferies and Lee Weinberg

      22 Indigenous Textiles of North America: A Century of Exhibitions 417
      Elizabeth Kalbfleisch and Janet Catherine Berlo

      23 Valorizing Gee’s Bend Quilts: Affinity, Adjacency, and the Modern Eye 435
      Karin E. Peterson and Leisa Rundquist

      24 Performing the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, Syncretism, and Globalization 459
      Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

      Index 475

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