In recent years, the study of textiles and culture has become a dynamic field of scholarship, reflecting new global, material and technological possibilities.
This vintage book contains a detailed guide to knitting a variety of items of clothing for babies, with directions for making hats, caps, mittens, bootees, and more.
This clear and concise book focuses on the interrelationship of textile components to help students understand and predict textile properties and performance.
Tops, Tücher, Pullis, Jacken, Tuniken und Kleider, entworfen von den Top-Designerinnen der Zeitschriften Verena und Sabrina: Diese luftig-leichten Strick-Ideen, in aktuellen Farben und Schnitten, sind das passende Outfit für Frühling und Sommer.
Africa Fashion explores the kaleidoscope of craft cultures that have shaped African fashion for centuries and captures the intriguing stories of contemporary and avant-garde African brands.
The classic book on the art and history of weaving-now expanded and in full colorWritten by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design.
"Der richtige Stoff für Ihr Nähprojekt" hilft Ihnen bei der Stoffwahl kompetent auf die Sprünge und fasst alle notwendigen Informationen zum Kauf des richtigen Materials für Ihr Nähvorhaben zusammen.
A beautiful book on the tradition of kantha, a Bengali embroidery technique with a rich heritage rooted in storytelling and upcycling, with inspiration and techniques for contemporary makers.
This beautiful, practical guide to creating and embellishing embroidered boxes is written by Heather Lewis, a tutor with the Royal School of Needlework.
Textiles explores the cultural meaning and exquisite workmanship found in the Museum of International Folk Art's vast collection that spans centuries and includes pieces from seventy countries around the world.
Written sources from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean, from the third to the first millennia BC, provide a wealth of terms for textiles.
"e;Pattern Sources Of Scriptural Subjects In Tudor And Stuart Embroideries"e; explores the colourful history of embroidery, focusing on the sources of design of "e;scriptural"e; subjects in English needlework during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material.
The patchwork is an apt metaphor for the region not only because of its colourfulness and the making of something whole out of fragments but as an attempt to make coherence out of disorder.
Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation offers an original framework for moving beyond binary discourses that class practices of needlework as either feminist or reactionary.
Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java is richly illustrated with color plates of the finest antique and contemporary batik from thirty museums and private collections around the world.
Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East.
