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With over 200 color illustrations, Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads
examines in detail the eclectic iconography of the Byzantine period
and its impact on design and creativity today. Through an
examination of the extraordinary variety of designs in these
captivating silks, an international team of experts reveal that
Byzantine culture was ever-moving and open to diverse influences
across the length of the Silk Road. Commentaries from curators at
key collections - including the Museum of Arts, Boston, the
Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt), the V&A and the Vatican - reveal
the spread of silk embroidery and designs from East to West, and
from West to East, from China to Rome, and from Constantinople to
Korea. Drawing on exclusive imagery from worldwide collections
within museums, churches and archives as case studies, their
analysis of these unique woven silks explores the relationship
between color and power, material culture and status, and offers
broader insight into Byzantine culture, trade, society and
ceremony. Byzantine Silk ... takes us on a journey from the past to
the present, too, where Byzantine story-telling and image-making is
revisited, through color, imagery and pattern, in contemporary
fashion collections. Exploring Byzantine culture through a
contemporary filter, the book shows how the Byzantine era still
influences textile and fashion designers today in their choices of
materials and colors, and their utilization of images and patterns,
acting as a unique source of inspiration to designers and creators
in the 21st century.
While the topic of sustainability in textile manufacture has been
the subject of considerable research, much of this is limited to a
focus on materials and practices and their ecological impact.
Padovani and Whittaker offer a unique exploration of the textile
industry in Europe from the perspective of social sustainability,
shifting the focus from the materiality of textile production to
the industry's relationships with the communities from which the
products originate. Featuring six in-depth case studies from design
entrepreneurs, artisans and textile businesses around Europe, from
Harris Tweed in Scotland to luxury woollen mills in Italy,
Sustainability and the Social Fabric explores how new centres of
textile manufacturing have emerged from the economic decline in
2008, responding creatively and producing socially inclusive
approaches to textile production. Case studies each represent a
different approach to social sustainability and are supported by
interviews with industry leaders and comparisons to the global
textile industry. Demonstrating how some companies are rebuilding
the local social fabric to encourage consumer participation through
education, enterprise, health and wellbeing, the book suggests
innovative business models that are economically successful and
also, in turn, support wider societal issues.
For centuries, the creation of Jacquard cloth required the
collaborative efforts of teams of designers and technicians working
on vastly complex equipment. In the past three decades,
developments in loom technology and CAD systems have made it
possible for a single individual to design and produce this most
challenging class of textiles. Digital Jacquard Design presents a
comprehensive introduction to the creation of weave patterning in
the era of digitally piloted looms. It offers both aesthetic and
technical training for students of figured weaving, covering the
Jacquard medium in fantastic breadth and depth. The book is an
essential guide for all who create figured textiles with modern
materials and tools, and provides the reader with a 'digital' key
to access and employ the great textile traditions of the past.
Digital Jacquard Design examines the design process from end to
end, progressing from visual analysis, sample analysis and
weave-drafting methods, to figuring techniques and the selection
and building of weaves. It provides a guide to converting
traditional drafts to digital polychrome format, a design
terminology and a weave glossary. The book concludes with a rich
set of case studies to demonstrate ingenious and effective weave
and design solutions.
Vibrant tapestries of beribboned birds, cantering centaurs, and
Dionysian dancers, woven in Coptic Egypt more than a thousand years
ago, were artfully arranged in a handsome pair of albums in 1913.
Some of the fabrics are shown in unique collage compositions.
Sandals, spindles, and a mysterious lock of hair are assembled in a
shallow box at the back of one album. Many textiles in this
important collection, housed at the Henry Art Gallery at the
University of Washington, were once joined by warp and weft with
those from the Mus e du Louvre and other major museums. Nancy
Hoskins deftly interweaves the creation of the textiles in the
Greco-Roman city of Antino, Egypt, with their discovery by the
charismatic French archaeologist Albert Gayet (1856-1916). Gayet
staged stunning exhibitions of the pieces in Paris at the turn of
the century and ultimately gave them to museums or sold them. One
collector, Henry Bryon, had his 144 fabrics bound into the two
albums featured here. The album pages and covers are illustrated in
glowing color, along with archival photographs from Gayet's
expeditions. The style, structure, and iconography of each
tapestry, tabby, and tablet-woven textile are discussed within the
cultural construct of Late Antique and Early Christian Egypt.
Detailed technical drawings illustrate the special weaving
techniques of the Copts. Directions for six weaving projects
inspired by the album fragments are included. The story of the
inimitable Coptic tapestry albums will delight weavers, textile
historians, art historians, and archaeologists. Nancy Arthur
Hoskins, a former college weaving instructor, researched Coptic
collections in over fifty museums around the world. She is the
author of Universal Stitches for Weaving, Embroidery, and Other
Fiber Arts and Weft-Faced Pattern Weaves: Tabby to Taquet . OMaster
weaver, scholarly detective, and sensitive connoisseur, Nancy
Hoskins combines all these skills to describe and identify this
unusually wide range of Egyptian Coptic textile fragments. Her
descriptions of weaving techniques create a fundamental glossary of
technical terms, which all who study textiles should use. The
detailed data on each piece are a benchmark for all who work in the
field.O N Jere L. Bacharach, Director, American Research Center in
Egypt"
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