Traditional culture is relevant to both the present and the future. This book provides an insight into the development of fashion, design and culture during the reign of the Choson dynasty in Korea.The traditional Korean wrapping cloths stand as …
Results 1 - 15 of 15
Traditional culture is relevant to both the present and the future. This book provides an insight into the development of fashion, design and culture during the reign of the Choson dynasty in Korea.The traditional Korean wrapping cloths stand as …
This book, now available for the first time in paperback, traces the history of tapestry from early examples to modern pieces. The different forms of tapestry associated with tribal and nomadic life are discussed, as well as those of the …
Drawings of knights and courtiers, real and mythological animals, castles and parterres, flowers and trees, pennants and crests, as well as columns and border designs.
Shibori is infinitely more than the tie-dye that became well known in the late 1960s. Shaped-resist dyeing techniques have been done for centuries in every corner of the world. Yet more than half of the known techniques-in which cloth is in some …
A Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs XV
Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs XV, now in its 15th year, is bigger and better than ever ever. This special annual book now has 96 pages and is packed with 50 beautiful full-page color images from the only juried exhibit of the year's best hand-…
Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing
Potential for creating designs in textiles can be seen even in the physical properties of cloth. The simple fact that cloth tightly compressed into wrinkles or folds resists the penetration of dye is an opportunity-an opportunity to let the …
A Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs XIII
Attention all fiber artists: Welcome to the only annual publication that celebrates the most beautiful, glorious, and intricate masterpieces that the rug hooking world has to offer! For 13 years, A Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs has been the …
You Can Weave!: Projects for Young Weavers
"Hooray! A weaving book for kids with projects that actually work....Some of the projects are small pouches, mug rugs, rag placemats, two tapestry samplers, and a great ikat dyed belt....There are beautiful photographs throughout....You Can Weave!…
Shibori: Creating Color and Texture on Silk
Shibori is the Japanese art of what is popularly known as tie-dye. But this ancient resist-dyeing technique goes far beyond the simple craft that is typically used to embellish T-shirts. In Shibori: Creating Color & Texture on Silk, artist Karren …
English Embroideries--16th & 17th C.
These textiles provide both documentation on the development of needlework and serve as a social history. Included are pictorial panels, a box, samplers, costume items and fanciful novelty pieces from the Ashmolean Museum's fine embroidery …
Whether a dress or tapestry, textiles have appeare d in great works of two- and three-dimensional art nearly from the beginning.
Hooked on Cats: Complete Patterns and Instructions for Rug Hookers
Tips and techniques from a renowned rug hooker. - Ten complete patterns with step-by-step instructions. - Full-color gallery of rugs both old and new. - How to hook fur, whiskers, and more. - Special dyeing techniques
"Flatweaves of Turkey" reflects the authors' enthusiasm for kilims and related flat-woven textiles. They consider that those made by mainly nomadic and village women in Turkey have the most varied and innovative designs, and are among the most …
Travellers to Burma over the centuries have recorded the sumptuous textiles produced and worn in great variety by the different peoples living there. This text presents the richness of these textiles, illustrated using examples from the James …
For more than two centuries stitching samplers provided the major form of education for young girls. What little knowledge of reading, arithmetic and geography they gained came from the discipline and long hours with the needle. Today we study …