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A notecard set celebrating the extraordinary post-war textile
artist Ayako Miyawaki. This all-occasion notecard set contains
twelve of her most stunning applique works inspired by cooking and
gardening. This captivating notecard set features the work of
Japanese applique artist Ayako Miyawaki, who emerged after WWII
determined to make art. Using scraps of handwoven cloth from around
her house, she elevated everyday objects-just pulled garlic, a crab
to be cooked for dinner-into stunning stunning textile art.
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 were renowned for wearing
brightly colored silk garments that glittered with gold and silver
threads. By contrast, nomadic Bedouins wore woolen garments in hues
and designs reflecting their desert lifestyle. The allure of these
garments stems from the technical virtuosity with which they were
woven and the aesthetic beauty of their drape and stylized designs.
Dressed with Distinction offers a window onto the history of
textile production in the Middle East during the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries, until political and social changes
led to the dominance of Western-style commercially manufactured
attire. In addition to articulating the social and seasonal
contexts in which the garments were worn, this book examines the
styles of dress of women, men, and children in Ottoman Syria,
including cloaks (abaya), head coverings (hatta), women's body
coverings (carsaf), and jackets (qumbas).
Anne Bardsgard grew up in Selbu and has always had a close
relationship with her hometown and its rich knitting history-her
relentless interest in the traditional mittens that made Selbu
famous worldwide became the groundwork for her first book, the
stunning all-in-one historical reference, design compendium and
mitten pattern guide Selbu Mittens. Now she's back to delve into
the wider realm of sweaters, cardigans, socks, and hats with this
companion collection: over 450 motifs that can be adapted and
combined using any of the foundational garment patterns included,
based on extensive and thorough documentation of photographs,
drawings, and preserved samples of historical knitted items from
Selbu. The result is a unique and unequaled look into the
traditional knitting culture of the Selbu region-and an endlessly
inspiring pattern resource.
Textiles connect a variety of practices and traditions, ranging
from the refined couture garments of Parisian fashion to the
high-tech filaments strong enough to hoist a satellite into space.
High-performance fabrics are being reconceived as immersive webs,
structural networks and information exchanges, and their ability to
interface with technology is changing how the human body is
experienced and how the urban environment is built. Today, textiles
reveal their capacity to transform our world more than any other
material. "Textile Futures" highlights recent works from key
practitioners and examines the changing role of textiles. Recent
developments present new technical possibilities that are beginning
to redefine textiles as a uniquely multidisciplinary field of
innovation and research. This book is an important tool for any
textile practitioner, fashion designer, architect, interior
designer or student designer interested in following new
developments in the field of textiles, seeking new sustainable
sources, or just eager to discover new works that reveal the
potency of textiles as an ultramaterial.
A detailed study of Tudor textiles, highlighting their extravagant
beauty and their impact on the royal court, fashion, and taste At
the Tudor Court, textiles were ubiquitous in decor and ceremony.
Tapestries, embroideries, carpets, and hangings were more highly
esteemed than paintings and other forms of decorative art. In
16th-century Europe, fine textiles were so costly that they were
out of reach for average citizens, and even for many nobles. This
spectacularly illustrated paperback edition tells the story of
textiles during the long Tudor century, from the ascendance of
Henry VII in 1485 to the death of his granddaughter Elizabeth I in
1603. It places elaborate tapestries, imported carpets and lavish
embroidery within the context of religious and political upheavals
of the Tudor court, as well as the expanding world of global trade.
Special attention is paid to the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a
magnificent two-week festival held in 1520. Even half a millennium
later, such extraordinary works remain Tudor society's strongest
projection of wealth, taste, and ultimately power. Published in
association with Historic Royal Palaces
In an era of increasingly available digital resources, many textile
designers and makers find themselves at an interesting juncture
between traditional craft processes and newer digital technologies.
Highly specialized craft/design practitioners may now elect to make
use of digital processes in their work, but often choose not to
abandon craft skills fundamental to their practice, and aim to
balance the complex connection between craft and digital processes.
The essays collected here consider this transition from the
viewpoint of aesthetic opportunity arising in the textile
designer's hands-on experimentation with material and digital
technologies available in the present. Craft provides the
foundations for thinking within the design and production of
textiles, and as such may provide some clues in the transition to
creative and thoughtful use of current and future digital
technologies. Within the framework of current challenges relating
to sustainable development, globalization, and economic constraints
it is important to interrogate and question how we might go about
using established and emerging technologies in textiles in a
positive manner.
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Anni Albers
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A long-overdue reassessment of one of the most important and
influential woman artists working at midcentury Anni Albers
(1899-1994) was a German textile designer, weaver, and printmaker,
and among the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism. Although
she has heavily influenced generations of artists and designers,
her contribution to modernist art history has been comparatively
overlooked, especially in relation to that of her husband, Josef.
In this groundbreaking and beautifully illustrated volume, Albers's
most important works are examined to fully explore and redefine her
contribution to 20th-century art and design and highlight her
significance as an artist in her own right. Featured works--from
her early activity at the Bauhaus as well as from her time at Black
Mountain College, and spanning her entire fruitful career--include
wall hangings, designs for commercial use, drawings and studies,
jewelry, and prints. Essays by international experts focus on key
works and themes, relate aspects of Albers's practice to her
seminal texts On Designing and On Weaving, and identify broader
contextual material, including examples of the Andean textiles that
Albers collected and in which she found inspiration for her
understanding of woven thread as a form of language. Illuminating
Albers's skill as a weaver, her material awareness, and her deep
understanding of art and design, this publication celebrates an
artist of enormous importance and showcases the timeless nature of
her creativity.
The patchwork is an apt metaphor for the region not only because of
its colourfulness and the making of something whole out of
fragments but as an attempt to make coherence out of disorder. The
seeking of coherence was the exact process of putting together this
book and foregrounds the process of Caribbean societies forging
identity and identities out of plural and at times conflicting and
contested groups that came to call the region home. Within the
metaphor of the patchwork however is the question, where are the
vernacular needlework artists within the visual art tradition of
the Caribbean? The introduction sets out to both clarify and
rectify this situation, and several common themes flow through the
following essays and interviews. Themes include that that the land
and colonization remain baseline issues for several Caribbean
artists who stage and restage the history of conquest and empire in
varying ways. That artists in the region amalgamate as part of
their practice and seem to prefer an open-endedness to art making
as opposed to expressing fidelity to a particular medium. That
artists and scholars alike are dismantling long-held perceptions of
what Caribbean art is thought to be, and are challenging boundaries
in Caribbean art. These are among the issues addressed in the book
as it looks at ecological concerns and questions of sustainability,
how the practices of the artists and their art defy the easy
categorization of the region, and the placement of women in the
visual art ecology of the Caribbean. The latter is one of the most
contested areas of the book. Readers should come away with the
sense that questions of race, colour, and class loom large within
questions of gender in the Jamaican art scene and that the book,
dedicated to Sane Mae Dunkley, aims to insert vernacular
needleworkers into the visual art scene in both Jamaica and the
larger Caribbean. Audience will include researchers and scholars of
Caribbean and African diasporic art, college students, those
interested in post-colonial studies, Caribbean artists, art
professionals interested in a wider, globalized view of
contemporary art; students curious to know about the many phases of
art production throughout the Caribbean. General readers interested
in the culture of the region.
"It's an evocative, inspiring mood board of a book." - Andreina
Cordani, Reclaim Magazine "Decorating with flowers - on everything
from walls and windows to sofas and floors - will bring magic and
romance to any space." - Mail on Sunday's You Magazine In the
designs of Tricia Guild, atmosphere is everything. Patterns,
colour, texture, furniture and furnishings interweave to create
spaces that have all the depth and meaning of installation art. Yet
just as an outfit never feels complete without a spritz of scent, a
room without plants is only nearly complete. Only nearly perfect.
At Designers Guild, Tricia Guild uses flowers, leaves and stems to
enhance a room's mood, bringing soul to the spaces we live in. A
flower has many spirits over the course of its life, from the
promise of those first pristine and innocent buds, to the
resplendent joy of full blooms and the wistful glory as they fade.
The cycle of nature provides an ever-evolving muse for Tricia
Guild. Her latest book explores how blooms can evoke emotion,
presenting a plethora of inspirational designs that breathe fresh
life into our homes and workspaces.
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 15
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Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Monica L. Wright; Contributions by Alejandra Concha Sahli, Elizabeth M. Swedo, …
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The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a variety of angles and approaches. The essays in this volume
continue the Journal's tradition of groundbreaking
interdisciplinary work. The volume opens with a survey of the
discipline of medieval clothing and textiles, written by founding
editor Gale R. Owen-Crocker. The range of the other essays extends
chronologically from the early Middle Ages through the fifteenth
century and covers a variety of disciplines. Topics include the
conception of the author as a "wordweaver" in the literatures of
Anglo-Saxon England; intertextual literary identities established
through clothing in the Nibelungenlied and the Voelsunga Saga; the
historical record of clothing and textiles at the court of King
John of England; medallion silks, their use in Western Europe, and
their representation in art; the vestments of Beguines and other
penitential movements in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries;
and a depiction of heraldic textile weaving inlate-medieval art.
Contributors: Tina Anderlini, Joanne W. Anderson, Maren Clegg Hyer,
Alejandra Concha Sahli, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth M. Swedo,
Hugh Thomas
Winner of the Best Books on Devon's History: Academic Award from
the Devon History Society A richly illustrated exploration of the
national and international importance of the early modern Exeter
cloth trade. This book reproduces a newly discovered manuscript
detailing the exports of Claude Passavant, a Swiss emigre merchant.
Passavant's dispatch book comprises the most extensive surviving
collection of Devon cloth with 2,475 surviving cloth samples.
Thirteen chapters discuss the local and wider contexts of
eighteenth-century cloth making. This study explores the quality,
range, and vibrancy of cloth that lead to Exeter becoming an
internationally renowned centre for the manufacture and trade of
woollen cloth.
This book follows the creative process of designing and printing
textile patterns, from the initial sourcing of ideas to the final
high-quality creation. It provides ideas and practical information
at a level easily accessible to textile students and designers, but
also to novices who would like to learn more. Throughout, the text
is enhanced by an exciting range of images, from historical
surface-pattern designs and textiles to the work of contemporary
designers. Topics include advice on generating ideas and expressing
them visually; a cultural and historical background to
surface-pattern design; experimental methods of working from paper
onto fabric; and practical details on fabrics, equipment, and
techniques for dying and printing. June Fish teaches at London's
Central St. Martins College for Art and Design.
Now available in a compact paperback edition, this book remains the
most comprehensive survey of African textiles on the market today,
illustrating in over 570 spectacular colour photographs the
traditional, handcrafted, indigenous textiles of the whole
continent. Covering, region by region, the handmade textiles of
West, North, East, Central and Southern Africa, African Textiles
outlines the vast array of techniques used as well as the different
types of loom, materials and dyes that help to create these
sumptuous textiles. With a useful glossary and map, a guide to
collections open to the public, and suggestions for further
reading, this book provides a wealth of information on the rich art
of African textiles.
Textile Technology and Design addresses the critical role of the
interior at the intersection of design and technology, with a range
of interdisciplinary arguments by a wide range of contributors:
from design practitioners to researchers and scholars to aerospace
engineers. Chapters examine the way in which textiles and
technology - while seemingly distinct - continually inform each
other through their persistent overlapping of interests, and
eventually coalesce in the practice of interior design. Covering
all kinds of interiors from domestic (prefabricated kitchens and 3D
wallpaper) to extreme (underwater habitats and space stations), it
features a variety of critical aspects including pattern and
ornament, domestic technologies, craft and the imperfect, gender
issues, sound and smart textiles. This book is essential reading
for students of textile technology, textile design and interior
design.
This title will present an overview of the core textiles
techniques: applique; printing onto fabric; stencilling; fabric
painting; dyeing; quilting and patchwork; batik; embroidery (hand
and machine); felt-making; weaving; silk painting; fusing and
bonding fabric; and mark-making. Each chapter will be packed with
unique ideas demonstrating different ways to use the technique as
you are learning. Perfect for fashion and textile students, or
anyone with a passion for creative textiles. The cheapest and
easiest methods for each technique will be explained, and where
possible the author will cover methods for working on textiles at
home, without expensive equipment. Format will be strictly
practical and step-by-step, with tools and working techniques fully
explained and illustrated.
Over the last four decades, the fashion modeling industry has
become a lightning rod for debates about Western beauty ideals, the
sexual objectification of women, and consumer desire. Yet, fashion
models still captivate, embodying all that is cool, glam, hip, and
desirable. They are a fixture in tabloids, magazines, fashion
blogs, and television. Why exactly are models so appealing? And how
do these women succeed in so soundly holding our attention? In This
Year's Model, Elizabeth Wissinger weaves together in-depth
interviews and research at model castings, photo shoots, and runway
shows to offer a glimpse into the life of the model throughout the
20th and 21st centuries. Once an ad hoc occupation, the "model
life" now involves a great deal of physical and virtual management
of the body, or what Wissinger terms "glamour labor." Wissinger
argues that glamour labor-the specialized modeling work of
self-styling, crafting a 'look,' and building an image-has been
amplified by the rise of digital media, as new technologies make
tinkering with the body's form and image easy. Models can now
present self-fashioning, self-surveillance, and self-branding as
essential behaviors for anyone who is truly in the know and 'in
fashion.' Countless regular people make it their mission to achieve
this ideal, not realizing that technology is key to creating the
unattainable standard of beauty the model upholds-and as Wissinger
argues, this has been the case for decades, before Photoshop even
existed. Both a vividly illustrated historical survey and an
incisive critique of fashion media, This Year's Model demonstrates
the lasting cultural influence of this unique form of embodied
labor.
In recent years, the study of textiles and culture has become a
dynamic field of scholarship, reflecting new global, material and
technological possibilities. This is the first handbook of
specially commissioned essays to provide a guide to the major
strands of critical work around textiles past and present and to
draw upon the work of artists and designers as well as researchers
in textiles studies. The handbook offers an authoritative and
wide-ranging guide to the topics, issues, and questions that are
central to the study of textiles today: it examines how material
practices reflect cross-cultural influences; it explores textiles'
relationships to history, memory, place, and social and
technological change; and considers their influence on fashion and
design, sustainable production, craft, architecture, curation and
contemporary textile art practice. This illustrated volume will be
essential reading for students and scholars involved in research on
textiles and related subjects such as dress, costume and fashion,
feminism and gender, art and design, and cultural history. Cover
image: Anne Wilson, To Cross (Walking New York), 2014.
Site-specific performance and sculpture at The Drawing Center, NYC.
Thread cross research. Photo: Christie Carlson/Anne Wilson Studio.
The wide range of sixties fabric designs reflected the transition
from the comforting tranquility of the early years to the bolder,
more "hip" end of the decade. Funky Fabrics of the 60s takes you on
a nostalgic tour of pastel and splashy florals, patchwork calicos,
denims and stripes, wild abstract geometrics, and neon paisleys.
Whether you admired Jackie Kennedy's elegant style or danced
barefoot in a peasant dress as a "flower child", this full color
book with hundreds of designs will bring back memories of a unique
time.
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