The handbook of textile culture
"The term "mantle" has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians, and shaped artists and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, "mantle" is the "metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between the seen and the unseen as…
"The term "mantle" has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians, and shaped artists and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica Della Dora, "mantle" is the "metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between the seen and the unseen as…
The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians and shaped artists' and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the "metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between the seen and the unseen as a th…
A fabricação digital se tornou uma realidade para a produção em diversos setores da indústria nos últimos anos. Com seu uso desenvolvido e consolidado em alguns setores como a medicina, a arquitetura e a robótica, ela ainda é pouco explorada na moda apresentando um grande potenc…
Zugunruhe is a German word for migratory restlessness used in ornithology that I found applicable to the ideas I am investigating through printmaking and textile-based techniques. In my art I am exploring landscapes both physical and mental, exterior and interior. I am looking a…
In recent decades, attention to textile art has flourished. The growth of contemporary studies committed to revising fiber’s hierarchical categorization represents a discursive turn heavily weighted within feminist inquiry. The interrelation between textile techniques and constr…
My thesis examines silk in terms of craft, heritage and use in contemporary Cambodia under the perspective of a history of trade, conflict, loss, and foreign influence. In Cambodia, silk weaving developed into a cottage activity since the twelfth century, producing ceremonial te…
People in the eastern portion of the island of Sumba, Indonesia have produced strikingly pictorial and technically complex textiles for centuries. Images within these fabrics vividly portray symbolic elements of the animist conceptual system of the island. Such textiles have lon…
Through the art and process of handloom weaving this study examines the complex relationship between the village community and economic development, not only in terms of how economic changes affect village life but also how village community relations and norms influence economi…
This dissertation examines the interaction between the central Ottoman administration and locally powerful provincial political forces, and the outcome of this interaction on the manufacturers in the textile and copper sector in the urban center of Tokat in central northeastern …
In the debate on how globalized manufacturing transforms domestic institutions, little consensus has emerged on whether national or international factors play a greater role in shaping institutional outcomes. This study compares patterns of change in the institutions regulating …
This is an ethnography of the Nike Centre for Art and Culture (NCAC) located in Osogbo, Nigeria. In 1983 Oyenike Monica Omoye Ojo Twins Seven Seven Olaniyi Davies-Okundaye, better known as Nike and already internationally known for her batik art work, established the centre to t…
This study traces the development of hand-dyed textiles (adire) and related social and gender issues in Southwestern Nigeria from 1841 to 1991. To do this, it examines material form and technique as well as social and cultural phenomena, linking these together and locating them …
Microscopy of textile fibres
by Royal Microscopical Society, Greaves, P. H., Saville, B. P.
During the eighteen century there was a significant growth in patchwork materially and linguistically. It was the century when patchwork was stitched at all levels of society and has been identified as the time when patchwork moved out from the small domestic world of decorative…
The objective of this research is to document the complex journey of wool from cradle to grave and beyond and to analyse the ethical and environmental cost of production from the farm to the knitwear factory, to retail and finally as post-consumer waste. The research findings ma…