Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance / Beverly Gordon.
By: Gordon, Beverly.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2011Description: 304 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 9780500515662 :; 0500515662.Subject(s): Textile fabrics | Textile fabrics -- Social aspects | Clothing and dress -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 746.1Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 746.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 23/02/2024 | 00196491 | |
General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 746.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00196529 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
There are few aspects of our lives--physical, emotional, spiritual--in which thread and fabrics do not play a notable part. Beverly Gordon reminds us memorably and movingly of the powerful significance of fabric throughout human history. Her study of textile art and history is combined with her own hands-on experience: spinning silk from silk- worm cocoons, weaving cloth, and creating natural dyes.
The author bridges past and present from the Stone Age, when humans first learned to make cordage or thread, to twenty-first-century "smart fabrics," which can regulate body temperature or measure the wearer's pulse. Her discussion integrates art, science, history, and anthropology, and she draws on examples from around the globe.
A dazzling array of illustrations includes paintings and photographs of both historic and contemporary textiles and a broad collection of textiles being created, worn, and lived with.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The very fabric of existence : textiles in human consciousness -- Living on the earth : textiles and human survival -- The ties that bind : the social meanings of textiles -- Cloth and temporal power : money, trade, status, and control -- Cloth as communication : expressing meaning, messages, and beauty -- Textiles and the spirit : the sacred, spiritual, and healing significance of cloth.
Discusses how textiles are an integral part of the human life journey from cradle to grave in a multitude of practical, symbolic and spiritual ways. This title illustrates the many uses of textiles in our everyday lives. It outlines how textiles are a means of communication functional, political and artistic and a metaphor for transcendence.
Discusses how textiles are an integral part of the human life journey from cradle to grave in a multitude of practical, symbolic and spiritual ways. This title illustrates the many uses of textiles in our everyday lives. It outlines how textiles are a means of communication functional, political and artistic and a metaphor for transcendence.
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