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This book fills a void in Western texts by presenting the largest
selection of Caucasian flat-woven carpets and textiles ever
included in a single book. They originate in the region south of
the Caucasus Mountains and west of the Caspian Sea, bounded by
Russian, Turkey, and Iran, and comprising parts of Georgia,
Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The book, with 436 beautiful color
photographs, includes an extensive selection of old kilims, zilis,
khorjins, and one of the most extensive collections of Caucasian
mafrash bedding bags ever assembled. They date generally from the
19th and early 20th centuries. Weaving styles of the nomadic,
indigenous peoples produce the rich mixture of geometric and
figurative forms recognized as uniquely Caucasian. A fascinating
description of the author's field visits to villages in the
Caucasus accompanies illustrations of the textiles and peoples
found there. The origins of these pieces are discussed through
comparisons with artifacts in the Russian Ethnographic Museum in
St. Petersburg. A unique feature is weaving examples by two
Georgian ethnic sub-groups, the Tushetians and the Khevsuretis. The
result is invaluable information regarding the weaving origins of
Caucasian flat-woven textiles for collectors and curators, and
richly colored pictorials that will inspire designers and artists.
In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers
are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics
to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern
life. Japan Beyond the Kimono explores these shifts, highlighting
developments in the Kyoto fashion industry such as its integration
of digital weaving and printing techniques and the influence of
social media on fashion distribution systems. Through case studies
of designers, artisans, and retailers, Jenny Hall provides a
comprehensive picture of the reasons behind the production and
consumption of these rejuvenated fashion goods. She argues that
conceptualisations of Japanese tradition include innovation and
change, which is vital to understanding how Japanese cultural
heritage is both sustained and evolving. Essential reading for
students and scholars of fashion, anthropology, and Japanese
studies, Jenny Hall's sensory ethnography is the first of its kind,
describing the lived experiences of people in the Kyoto textiles
industry, explaining the renewal of traditional techniques and
styles, and placing them both within contexts such as transnational
'craftscapes' and fast or slow fashion systems.
Published on the occasion of an important international loan
exhibition at The Azerbaijan Carpet Museum in Baku, this
multi-author book is much more than a mere catalogue. Written by a
team of international museum professionals and independent
scholars, it is the first co-ordinated and detailed study of the
West Caspian region's characteristic silk embroideries. The book
traces the history of embroidery in the Caucasus, the
multi-cultural sources of domestic embroidery iconography and
designs in which the textile traditions of the Iranian and Turkic
worlds meet, materials and needlework techniques, as well as the
relationship between embroidery and the pile carpet weaving
tradition in the region.
Intended for fashion students and fashion designers, this fabric
book is indispensable for sourcing and selecting textiles for
fashion. It will guide you to the perfect fabric for every design,
helping you find the ideal material to achieve the desired effect
and recommending different ways to use it. With a revised and
updated selection of photographs from fashion shows that exemplify
current fashion trends in which the collections of such renowned
designers as Givenchy, Stella McCartney, Vuitton, Vivian Westwood,
van Herpen, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein appeared, the book shows
you how some of the most emblematic names in fashion today use
fabrics to achieve the highest expression of their creativity. This
updated and enlarged edition also includes a detailed technical and
historical introduction on the types of fabrics and their
classification, the relationship between fabric and the fashion
industry and the aesthetic, emotional, commercial and social
aspects involved. This fabric bible is sure to become essential
reading for all aspiring and experienced dressmakers and fashion
designers.
Huichol Indian yarn paintings are one of the world's great
indigenous arts, sold around the world and advertised as authentic
records of dreams and visions of the shamans. Using glowing colored
yarns, the Huichol Indians of Mexico paint the mystical symbols of
their culture—the hallucinogenic peyote cactus, the blue
deer-spirit who appears to the shamans as they croon their songs
around the fire in all-night ceremonies deep in the Sierra Madre
mountains, and the pilgrimages to sacred sites, high in the central
Mexican desert of Wirikuta. Hope MacLean provides the first
comprehensive study of Huichol yarn paintings, from their origins
as sacred offerings to their transformation into commercial art.
Drawing on twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork, she interviews
Huichol artists who have innovated important themes and styles. She
compares the artists' views with those of art dealers and
government officials to show how yarn painters respond to market
influences while still keeping their religious beliefs. Most
innovative is her exploration of what it means to say a tourist art
is based on dreams and visions of the shamans. She explains what
visionary experience means in Huichol culture and discusses the
influence of the hallucinogenic peyote cactus on the Huichol's
remarkable use of color. She uncovers a deep structure of visionary
experience, rooted in Huichol concepts of soul-energy, and shows
how this remarkable conception may be linked to visionary
experiences as described by other Uto-Aztecan and Meso-American
cultures.
Featuring detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size
portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool,
silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads, the Valois Tapestries are
one of the most extravagant sets of hangings produced in the 16th
century. The precise circumstances surrounding the tapestries'
commission and their arrival at the Medici court in Florence, as
well as the significance of the specific scenes depicted, however,
have eluded scholars for years. Presenting new research into the
political maneuvering of the Valois and Medici courts and providing
extensive physical analysis gathered during a recent cleaning of
the tapestries, this volume offers brand new insight into why these
magnificent works were made and what they represent. Distributed
for the Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Cleveland
Museum of Art (11/18/18-01/21/19)
Essential in the everyday lives of all societies for providing protection and warmth, textiles also fulfill social, cultural, military, legal, and symbolic functions and have played a key role in the economic activity of societies from ancient times. This magnificent two-volume study brings together the leading experts on textiles from eight countries, ensuring authoritative coverage of the production and uses of textiles in western societies from the earliest times to the present day. With contributions from archaeologists, economic and social historians, historians of fashion and the history of dress, and museum curators, no other book offers the breadth of coverage of this one, in terms of time period, subject matter, or approach. The book's range and accessibility will ensure that it is a key reference for specialists and non-specialists alike. David Jenkins is Senior Lecturer in Economic History in the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York. He is also Governor and Company Secretary of the Pasold Research Fund, which promotes research and publication in the history of textiles in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Jenkins has a special interest in the wool textile industry, where his major contribution is (with the late K.G. Ponting) The British Wool Textile Industry, 1880-1914 (Ashgate Publishing Company, 1982). For several years Jenkins was a member of Council and Honorary Secretary of the Economic History Society and is a member of the Editorial Board of Textile History.
This fantastic book showcases the prestigious Embroiderers' Guild's
huge collection of embroidered birds through the ages. Featuring
photographs taken especially for the book, items are shown in full
along with detailed images that show off the stunning birds at
their best.
uring the 1920s and 1930s, Phyllis Barron (1890-1964) and Dorothy
Larcher (1882-1952) were at the forefront of a revival in hand
block-printing in Britain. As designer-makers they formed a unique
partnership, producing innovative textiles and seeing the entire
process through from beginning to end. Using whatever materials
they could muster - fabric ranging from balloon cotton to prison
sheets and velvet, and everyday items such as combs and car mats
for printing - and pushing the boundaries of what could be achieved
with predominantly natural dyes, these two remarkable women ran a
successful business that lasted from 1923 until the outbreak of
World War II. Nearly one hundred years on, another special
collaboration between the Craft Studies Centre in Farnham,
Christopher Farr Cloth and Ivo Prints, has brought a selection of
Barron and Larcher's work back into production. The warm welcome
they have received across the globe is a testament to the timeless
quality of great design.
Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum delves into the history and the
changing material culture in Europe through the stories of a
basket, a carpet, a waistcoat, a uniform, and a dress. The focus on
the objects from the collection of the Museum of European Cultures
in Berlin offers an innovative and challenging way of understanding
textile culture and museums. The book shows that textiles can be
simultaneously used as the material object of research, and as a
lens through which we can view museums. In doing so, the book fills
a major gap by placing textile knowledge back into the museum. Each
chapter focuses on one object story and can be read individually.
Swooping from 19th-century wax figure cabinets, Nazi-era
collections, Cold War exhibitions in East and West Berlin, and
institutional reshuffling after German unification, it reveals the
dramatically changing story of the museum and its collection. Based
on research with museum curators, makers and users of the textiles
in Italy and Germany, Poland and Romania, the book provides
intimate insights into how objects are mobilised to very different
social and political effects. It sheds new light on movements
across borders, political uses of textiles by fascist and communist
regimes, the objects’ fall into oblivion, as well as their
heritage and tourist afterlives. Addressing this complex museum
legacy, the book suggests new pathways to prefigure the future.
Featuring new archival and ethnographic research, evocative
examples and images, it is an essential read for students of
textile and material culture, museum and curatorial studies as well
as anyone interested in history, heritage and craft.
Tearing, cutting, shredding in order to reassemble the elements and
create something new: strip by strip the Austrian artist Monika
Fioreschy applies lengths of torn paper to her canvases, thereby
creating large-format abstract works filled with a harmonious
formal language and offering an unexpected wealth of detail when
observed more closely. Paper is the main medium used in the new
cycles of works by Monika Fioreschy, whereby the strength of her
works lies in the reduction of materials and forms. Line by line
our eyes follow the course of the collages; the observer is seduced
into reading her art. The strict regularity of the works is
interrupted by changes in colour, the arrangement of the folds,
gaps and overpasting, whereby the real wealth of detail only
becomes evident through intensive study. In his essay accompanying
the full-page reproductions of the works, art theorist Bazon Brock
explains how Fioreschy's training in classic weaving skills can be
rediscovered in these works and the role they play in the artist's
oeuvre as a whole.
Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship
between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the
private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a
major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostered the
emergence of today's dynamic and expanding crafts movements. The
Subversive Stitch is now available again with a new Introduction
that brings the book up to date with exploration of the stitched
art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new
young female and male embroiderers. Rozsika Parker uses household
accounts, women's magazines, letters, novels and the works of art
themselves to trace through history how the separation of the craft
of embroidery from the fine arts came to be a major force in the
marginalisation of women's work. Beautifully illustrated, her book
also discusses the contradictory nature of women's experience of
embroidery: how it has inculcated female subservience while
providing an immensely pleasurable source of creativity, forging
links between women.
Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In
Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central
Asia to Tanzania to uncover the central roles that textiles play
within Muslim-majority communities. This thematically arranged book
sheds light on the traditions, rituals and religious practices of
these regions, and the ways in which each one incorporates
materials and clothing. Drawing on examples including Iranian lion
carpets and Arabic keffiyeh, Faegheh Shirazi frames these textiles
and totemic items as important cultural signifiers that, together,
form a dynamic and fascinating material culture. Like a developing
language, this culture expands, bends and develops to suit the
needs of new generations and groups across the world. The political
significance of Islamicate textiles is also explored: Faegheh
Shirazi's writing reveals the fraught relationship between the East
- with its sought-after materials and much-valued textiles - and
the European countries that purchased and repurposed these goods,
and lays bare the historical and contemporary connections between
textiles, colonialism, immigration and economics. Dr Shirazi also
discusses gender and how textiles and clothing are intimately
linked with sexuality and gender identity.
Carpets made in the "Rug Belt"-an area that includes Morocco, North
Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and northern India-have been
a source of fascination and collecting since the 13th century. This
engaging and accessible book explores the history, design
techniques, materials, craftsmanship, and socioeconomic contexts of
these works, promoting a better understanding and appreciation of
these frequently misunderstood pieces. Fifty-five examples of
Islamic carpets are illustrated with new photographs and revealing
details. The lively texts guide readers, teaching them "how to
read" clues present in the carpets. Walter B. Denny situates these
carpets within the cultural and social realm of their production,
be it a nomadic encampment, a rural village, or an urban workshop.
This is an essential guide for students, collectors, and
professionals who want to understand the art of the Islamic carpet.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale
University Press
In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers
are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics
to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern
life. Japan beyond the Kimono explores these shifts, highlighting
developments in the Kyoto fashion industry such as its integration
of digital weaving and printing techniques and the influence of
social media on fashion distribution systems. Through case studies
of designers, artisans, and retailers, Jenny Hall provides a
comprehensive picture of the reasons behind the production and
consumption of these rejuvenated fashion goods. She argues that
conceptualisations of Japanese tradition include innovation and
change, which is vital to understanding how Japanese cultural
heritage is both sustained and evolving. Essential reading for
students and scholars of fashion, anthropology, and Japanese
studies, Jenny Hall's sensory ethnography is the first of its kind,
describing the lived experiences of people in the Kyoto textiles
industry, explaining the renewal of traditional techniques and
styles, and placing them both within contexts such as transnational
'craftscapes' and fast or slow fashion systems.
Stumpwork embroidery, also called raised embroidery, takes hand
embroidery to another dimension and lifts it off the surface of the
fabric with strikingly realistic results. This technique uses all
the usual embroidery stitches you would expect and includes
padding, wiring and slips to achieve its raised effect. Stumpwork
Inspirations highlights the very best stumpwork has to offer in
both design and technique. Featuring talented embroidery designers
Susan O'Connor, Wendy Innes, Susan Casson, Anna Scott, Lesley
Turpin-Delport and Jane Nicholas, this special collection,
including lovely framed pictures and a pot lid, have been curated
into one publication. With 8 stunning stumpwork projects to make,
there are clear step-by-step instructions, pullout patterns, a
stitch guide and all the information you need to stitch them.
Discover the origins, stitches, techniques and designs that are
uniquely stumpwork, and learn how to make your own beautiful works
of art.
Addressing textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and
field of scholarly research, The Textile Reader introduces students
to the key issues essential to the exploration of the textile from
both a critical and a creative perspective. The second edition
brings together lectures, catalogue essays, academic articles,
fiction and poetry, as well as several articles available in
English translation for the first time, to capture the diversity of
voices informing textile studies today. Content is organized around
the themes of touch, memory, structure, politics, and production
plus a new section exploring the role of community. With 22 new
contributors, this revised edition includes selected work from
Maria Fusco, Ursula le Guin, Elaine Igoe, Faith Ringgold, and T'ai
Smith. Extended introductions and annotated suggestions for further
reading by the editor Jessica Hemmings make the second edition an
invaluable resource to students of textiles, craft and material
culture.
A spectacular visual journey through 40 years of haute couture from
one of the best-known and most trend-setting brands in fashion
Founded in 1962 by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre
Berge, the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent has for more than half
a century been synonymous with excellence in modern and iconic
style. From Yves Saint Laurent's revolutionary and enduringly
popular tuxedo suit for women, le smoking, to iconic art-inspired
creations, from Mondrian dresses to precious Van Gogh embroidery
and the famous Ballets Russes collection, the house's haute couture
line has been hugely influential in changing the way modern women
dress. This definitive publication opens with a concise history of
the house before exploring the collections themselves, organized
chronologically and ending in 2002, the year that Yves Saint
Laurent retired from the company he started. Each collection is
introduced by a short text elucidating its influences and
highlights and is illustrated with carefully curated catwalk
images, each season styled as the designer intended and worn by the
world's top models. The book showcases hundreds of spectacular
clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks, and set designs.
Praise for the Build a Bag series: "These books are ideal for those
new to bag making and will help readers grow their bag-making
skills and confidence as they work through the projects. The
plastic templates are a brilliant idea and a great bonus." - The
Sewing Directory New to the highly acclaimed Build a Bag series,
this fantastic new book by Debbie Shore brings you a selection of
15 sensational satchels! The 15 designs are created using the
full-size rigid template contained within the book. It is
easy-to-use, durable, reusable, wipe-clean and perfect for fussy
cutting, plus it is simple to position and use - there is no need
to pin it. The satchels are made using different techniques,
pockets, straps and fastenings to create 15 very different results.
But why stop there? The template can also be used for your own
design variations. As you mix and match the techniques covered
within the book, Debbie gives advice on how to adapt and create
your own unique designs. Each project in the book is explained
using Debbie's friendly style and easy-to-follow step-by-step
photography, and there is also a comprehensive techniques section
and a guide to using the template.
After training as a graphic designer in Hungary, the plastic artist
Vera Székely (1919-1994), a member of the Székely-Borderie
ceramicist collective, tackled work in clay, metal, wood and glass
to reach her artistic fulfillment in textiles. From this point on,
Vera Székely acknowledged “swimming and dancing in space to
leave a trace in it” with her ephemeral installations of bent
felt, her stretched canvas structures and “braced sails” that
would be exhibited throughout the world, notably at the Biennale
internationale de la tapisserie, Lausanne (1981) the Musée
national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou (1982), the
Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (1985), the Lunds
Konsthall, Sweden (1988). Text in English and French.
A collection of traditional eighteenth and nineteenth century
weaving drafts, written sequences of the threading order on the
loom used to create specific patterns. They are presented here in
their original form as gathered by Frances L. Goodrich and
illustrated in over 160 color photos. This volume also contains
over 200 valuable modern translations of the same drafts for use by
today's weavers. In 1890, Frances L. Goodrich came to the southern
mountains in North Carolina from a life of culture to live and work
among people who had little opportunity for education or social
enrichment. Through her work for the Presbyterian Home Mission
Board, she grew to love and respect these neighbors who worked so
hard and had so little. She established schools, a small hospital,
and the Allanstand Cottage Industries. As she traveled the mountain
roads and trails on horseback, Miss Goodrich collected these
precious weaving drafts from the women who wove for Allanstand
Cottage Industries. In your hands is the heart of that collection.
Textile design has a very exciting future. New fibres, fabrics and
applications are constantly appearing and designers now have a
wealth of avenues to explore. This book offers students a basic
grounding in the three main pathways of textile design - printed,
woven and mixed media textile design. Using a wealth of imagery and
case studies from designers and studios at work today, the book
looks at the basic principles of design and production, and the
stages of creating a textile collection, giving students all the
tools they need to develop their own work. Finally, the role of the
textile designer is explored in several market sectors giving
students an insight into the industry and possible career paths
they may wish to follow. Designed for students both at degree and
foundation level, the book will also appeal to those wishing to
enter a career in textile design.
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