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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Textile arts
Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing.
Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn
on weaving processes to illustrate their ideas, and artists such as
Ann Hamilton, Louise Bourgeois and Chiharu Shiota explore matters
such as the seam, the needle and thread, and the flow of viscous
materials in their work. Yet thinking about textile and making
textile are often treated as separate and distinct practices,
rather than parallel modes. This beautifully illustrated book
brings together for the first time the language and materiality of
textile to develop new models of thinking, writing and making.
Through the work of thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Helene Cixous
and Luce Irigaray, and international artists like Eva Hesse and
Helen Chadwick, textile practitioner, theorist and writer Catherine
Dormor puts forward a new philosophy of textile. Exploring the
material behaviours and philosophical language of folding,
shimmering, seaming, viscosity, fraying and caressing, Dormor
demonstrates how textile practice and theory are intricately woven
together.
In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised
access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to
furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's
Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers,
sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of
Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social
standing. Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the
book examines how needlework's practice and products were vital in
the contest for social position in the turmoil of the first two
decades of the Victorian rush from 1851. Placing women firmly at
the center of colonial history, it explores how the needle became a
tool for stitching together identity. From decorative needlework to
household making and mending, women's sewing was a vehicle for
establishing, asserting, and maintaining social status.
Interdisciplinary in scope, Needlework and Women's Identity in
Colonial Australia draws on material culture, written primary
sources, and pictorial evidence, to create a rich portrait of the
objects and manners that defined genteel goldfields living. Giving
voice to women's experiences and positioning them as key players in
the fabric of gold-rush society, this volume offers a fresh
critical perspective on gender and textile history.
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