Author: Arnold WolfensbergerPublisher:
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Category : Silk industry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Theory of Silk Weaving
Author: Arnold WolfensbergerPublisher:
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Category : Silk industry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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Silk and Empire
Author: Brenda M. KingPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719067006
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
King challenges the notion that Britain always exploited its empire. She presents a new picture of the trade, where the strong links between Indian designs, the English silk industry and prominent members of the English arts and crafts movement led to the production of beautiful and luxurious textiles.
Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads
Author: Sarah E. Braddock ClarkePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350099317
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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.
The American Silk Journal
Author: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Author: Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsIndustrial Education
Author: United States. Bureau of LaborPublisher:
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Category : Technical education
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
Book Description
Studies in Byzantine, Islamic and Near Eastern Silk Weaving
Author: Anna MuthesiusPublisher: Pindar Press
ISBN: 1915837235
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
This volume complements Anna Muthesius' two earlier ground-breaking volumes in the field of silk as material culture: Studies in Byzantine and Islamic Silk Weaving and Studies in Silk in Byzantium. The publication highlights the fact that similar patterns of selection were at work in the acquisition of silks by secular and ecclesiastical bodies. These patterns of selection were governed not only by fashions of the time, but by access to international trade routes leading to the Great Silk Road linking the Near East to the Mediterranean. The surviving silks prove that Mediterranean/Near Eastern silk trade flourished continuously and for centuries prior to the thirteenth century, contrary to what has previously widely been assumed. It also highlights the crucial role of the Caucasian silk routes in accessing the Great Silk Road in the early period, and the contribution of Georgian (and Armenian) silk weaving after the thirteenth century. Above all, the book demonstrates how important it is to assess the impact of Near Eastern silk manufacture and distribution in relation to Byzantine and Islamic Mediterranean silk production and trade.
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