Winner of the R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Award sponsored by the
Textile Society of America Asia is renowned for the production of
fine handwoven cottons and luxurious silks -- important items of
trade for centuries. In addition to these celebrated fabrics,
however, weavers throughout the region produced cloth from ramie,
hemp, pina, and banana fibers (including Philippine abaca and
Okinawan ito basho), as well as a number of lesser-known plant
fibers. Over the course of the twentieth century, many of these
Asian plant fiber weaving traditions became marginalized or hovered
on the brink of extinction, given the advent of synthetic fabrics,
growing industrialization, and increased international textile
trade. As the essays in this book testify, however, they have not
vanished altogether. Rather, in recent times weavers have
purposefully chosen to pursue various efforts directed at their
preservation, revival, or reinvention. In many cases, the
production of bast and leaf fiber textiles is now thriving in newly
globalized situations. This volume presents eight essays
documenting the current state of bast and leaf fiber weaving
traditions in Vietnam, Borneo, Korea, Burma, Okinawa, the
Philippines, Japan, and Micronesia. The processes that have
nurtured or buffeted attempts to preserve or revive the production
of these textiles are examined and abundantly illustrated with
color photographs. Roy W. Hamilton is curator of Asian and Pacific
collections at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. B. Lynne Milgram is
professor of anthropology at Ontario College of Art and Design,
Toronto. The other contributors include Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Bu-ja
Koh, Sophiano Limol, Elizabeth Oley, Melisssa M. Rinne, Donald H.
Rubinstein, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, Ma Thanegi, and Tran Thi Thu
Thuy.
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