Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe bibliography is extensive, giving an interesting insight into the metaphorical use of the words that textiles have made to the language. * Book Threads *
Dormor provides a crucial model of integrated writing about practice that entwines the academic and creative voice. In the face of much writing that adopts linear models not because of their usefulness, but for lack of another model, here the academic and creative voice finally hold “theory” and “practice” as one. * Jessica Hemmings, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland *
Table of ContentsList of Plates Acknowledgements Introduction Textile as Making:
techne between practice and theory Weaving the Chapters (Inter)mingling Chapter One: Folding An Unfolding of Making Metaphorics and Metonymy as Enfolded Modes for Thinking Textile–Space
La Maison Baroque Folding–Seaming–Fraying Chapter Two: Textile as Shimmering Surface
Veils: a space of scintillation Faintly Gleaming Illicit Encounters Absurdity Through the Looking Glass Chapter Three: Seaming Seaming as Passage Hand & Machine Stitching Seaming as Suturing Seaming as Trace Conjunctions & Crossings Chapter Four: Textile as Viscous Substance Attacking the Boundary Collapsing Boundaries Flow Ontological Secretions A substance between two states Chapter Five: Fraying Frayed and Fraying: a politics of translation Frayed and Fraying Cloth: broken and contingent To the Edge: pointing away from the centre Worn Through Fraying Chapter Six: Textile as Caressing Subject/Object Affective Touching Proximity Opening Out-Becoming Measuring Distance First Actions of Hands Synoptic-Synesthetic Caressing Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
