Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Textile Asia
Author: Traditional Textiles of Central Asia
Author: Janet HarveyPublisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500278758
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
No region has a textile tradition more vivid and romantic than that of Central Asia. This book provides a spectacularly illustrated survey of these textiles, displaying in more than 200 color plates the opulent silks and velvets, the exquisite embroideries, the magnificent felts and woolen fabrics produced in the workshops of the oasis towns of the Silk Route.
Silk and Cotton
Author: Susan MellerPublisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683355571
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 783
Book Description
The traditional textiles of Central Asia are unknown treasures. Straddling the legendary Silk Road, this vast region stretches from Russia in the west to China in the east. Whether nomadic or sedentary, its peoples created textiles for every aspect of their way of life, from ceremonial objects marking rites of passage, to everyday garments, to practical items for the home. There were suzanis for the marriage bed; prayer mats; patchwork quilts; bridal ensembles; bags for tea, scissors, and mirrors; lovingly embroidered hats and bibs; and robes of every color and pattern. Author Susan Meller has spent years assembling the 590 textiles illustrated in this book. She documents their history, use, and meaning through archival photographs and fascinating travelers’ narratives spanning many centuries. Her book will be a revelation to designers, collectors, students of Central Asia, and travelers to the region. Silk and Cotton is destined to become a classic.
Handwoven Textiles of South-East Asia
Author: Sylvia Fraser-LuPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated, pioneering work surveys the history and techniques of textile production past and present in South-East Asia, offering important insights into the economic, social, and religious life of the people.
Transcending Patterns
Author: Mariachiara GaspariniPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824877985
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Through the analysis of the Turfan Textile Collection in the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin and more than a thousand textiles held in collections worldwide, Gasparini discloses and reconstructs the rich cultural entanglements along the Silk Road, between the coming of Islam and the rise of the Mongol Empire, from the Tarim to Mediterranean Basin. Exploring in detail the iconographic transfer between different agents and different media from Central Asian caves to South Italian churches, the author depicts and describes the movement and exchange of portable objects such as sculpture, wall painting, and silk fragments across the Asian continent and across the ages. Gasparini’s history offers critical perspectives that extend far beyond an outmoded notion of “Silk Road studies.” Her cross-media work shows readers how certain material cultures are connected not only by the physical routes they take but also because of the meanings and interpretations these objects engage in various places. Transcending Patterns is at once art history, material and visual cultural history, Asian studies, conservatory studies, and linguistics.
Textiles
Author: Kurt Salmon AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Market surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Textiles of Southeast Asia
Author: Robyn MaxwellPublisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 9780804844406
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Textiles provide a visual history of a country's culture and crafting traditions in a way few other things can accomplish. In Textiles of Southeast Asia, Dr. Robyn Maxwell provides the definitive work on Southeast Asian textiles. Traditional textiles are one of the most widely collected and important categories of Southeast Asian art. Using an extensive range of locally produced raw materials and an astonishing array of techniques—including applique, weaving, batik and embroidery—the textiles of Southeast Asia are astonishing in their versatility and originality. Textiles are used to fashion everything from everyday clothing to sacred and ceremonial costumes, shrouds and wrapping cloths, hangings, banners and ritual regalia—all of which are represented and explained in Textiles of Southeast Asia. This authoritative text focuses on the changing relationship between indigenous Southeast Asian traditions and the outside influences continuing to be brought to the area, which change the nature of the region's textile traditions. This book considers the various ways Southeast Asian textile artisans reacted over the centuries to the steady stream of new and powerful ideas and raw materials arriving from India, China, the Islamic world and Europe. A detailed and definitive resource, Textiles of Southeast Asia is a welcome addition to the field of textiles.
Textiles and the Tai Experience in Southeast Asia
Author: Mattiebelle GittingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Exhibition will be presented first at Bangkok at the Thai Cultural Centre in July 1992; from Bangkok, the exhibition will travel to Washington, D. C., where it will be presented at the the Textile Museum
Recent Developments in the Clothing Industry
Author: International Labour Organisation. Sectoral Activities ProgrammePublisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9221094847
Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Reviews trends and developments in the clothing industry since the Third Technical Meeting in 1987. Summarizes the information supplied by governments on the effect given to conclusions and resolutions adopted by the previous meeting, and includes steps taken by the ILO to meet the requirements of previous meetings.
Weavers' Stories from Island Southeast Asia
Author: Roy W. HamiltonPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Weaver's Stories from Island Southeast Asia delves into the personal stories of individual textile artists, bringing recognition to their accomplishments, skills, and extraordinary lives. Photographs of ten women from eight locations in the Southeast Asian archipelago along with examples of their weaving are accompanied by a DVD showing them at work. The book is part of a project to bring stories from the lives of Southeast Asian weavers and batik makers to an American audience, using video as the main component. Although the makers of textiles are generally not named in American museum collections, the creation of textiles is not anonymous in Southeast Asian communities. Senior artists are held in public esteem, and the cloth they produce is instantly recognizable to local people as their unique product.