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Author: Mary M. Dusenbury
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781555952389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautifully illustrated volume introduces a little-known but outstanding collection of Asian textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art at teh University of Kansas.
Author: Susan Briscoe
Publisher: David & Charles
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1446375781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLet an expert teach you the traditional craft of Japanese country quilting, “the perfect simple, low-cost hobby to get you off your phone” (Slate). Sashiko, the traditional Japanese technique of needlework quilting, uses a simple running stitch to create beautiful patterns ideal for patchwork, quilting, and embroidery. Sashiko, pronounced shash-ko, means “stab stitch” and refers to the small running stitch that is worked to build up hundreds of distinctive decorative patterns. This book begins by exploring the origins of the technique: to strengthen clothes and to make them warmer. The “Getting Started” section describes everything you need to begin stitching, including selecting suitable fabrics and threads, marking out patterns on the fabric, as well as the stitching technique itself. Ten project chapters show how easy it is to use sashiko patterns to make beautiful items for the home. The sashiko patterns are described in step-by-step detail in the pattern library, showing you exactly how to achieve each individual pattern with ease. Finally, a gallery of work by contemporary Japanese textile artists provides extra inspiration. “A book I would suggest anyone getting started with sashiko would benefit from having in their library . . . Susan Briscoe writes with an obvious fondness for Japanese culture.” —The Ardent Thread
Author: Eiko Ikegami
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-02-28
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780521601153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book combines sociological insights in organizations with cultural history.
Author: Rupert Faulkner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780812233353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautiful presentation of outstanding works of craft being created in Japan today.
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Publisher: UM Libraries
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Angela Jansen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-07-28
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1474229506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern Fashion Traditions questions the dynamics of fashion systems and spaces of consumption outside the West. Too often, these fashion systems are studied as a mere and recent result of globalization and Western fashion influences, but this book draws on a wide range of non-Western case studies and analyses their similarities and differences as legitimate fashion systems, contesting Eurocentric notions of tradition and modernity, continuity versus change, and 'the West versus the Rest'. Preconceptions about non-Western fashion are challenged through diverse case studies from international scholars, including street-style identity in Bhutan, the influence of Ottoman cultural heritage on contemporary Turkish fashion design, and an investigation into the origins of the word 'fashion' in Chinese. Negotiating tradition, foreign influences and the contemporary global dominance of Western fashion cities, Modern Fashion Traditions will give readers a clearer understanding of non-Western fashion identities in the present. Accessibly written, this ground-breaking text makes an essential contribution to the study of non-Western fashion and will be an important resource for students of fashion history and theory, anthropology, and cultural studies.
Author: Dover
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2010-08-19
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 048647318X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis magnificent treasury of 100 full-color plates — many with multiple images — ranges from ornate florals, elegant cranes, and fierce dragons to Silk Road imports and Edo-era textile patterns.
Author: Shiho S. Nunes
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1999-12-01
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0824865030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA carefully documented and illustrated account of the stitching community on the Big Island of Hawai'i from the mid 1930s to the late 1960s. This award-winning book traces the teaching of shishu (Japanese embroidery) in Hawai'i and describes in detail the modifications made to traditional motifs and materials. In the 1930s Ima Shinoda began teaching groups of predominantly nisei women in and around Hilo the centuries-old art of Japanese embroidery known as shishu. Trained in Japan, she combined her talents for teaching and stitchery to inspire and instruct a new generation in the demanding art form. Together with her husband, Yoshio, who created the distinctive, eye-catching designs used by hers students, Ima Shimoda was responsible for not only furthering the practice of shishu in Hawai'i but ensuring its existence as a vital link for many nisei to their cultural past and its traditions.
Author: Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: Pomegranate
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0876545983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book explores the use and meaning of the kimono in America and traces the transformation of the garment from its ethnic origins, through its many appearances in fine art, costume, and high fashion, to its role in the contemporary Art-to-Wear Movement. It explores the American use of the kimono as a garment, as a symbol, and as an art form.
