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Author: Shirley Friedland
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pictorial survey of printed fabrics - includes abstract and geometric, floral and animal prints. There is a companion volume entitled "African Fabric Design."
Author: John Gillow
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2003-09
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0811841669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces a boy's journey across India as he searches for a sacred buffalo bell stolen from his tribe.
Author: Anne Grosfilley
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783791384368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals the complex origins of African wax print textiles and traces the process of printing and dying the fabric, involving wax or indigo, to its West Indian roots. Also explores the differences of mass-produced and artisanally sourced fabrics, tracking where textiles go from the manufacturing centers to markets and cities throughout Africa and the world
Author: Magie Relph
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780956698209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adaku Parker
Publisher: CICO Books
Published: 2021-02-09
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781782498773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll the techniques, step-by-step instructions, and patterns you need to make 25 African wax print garments and accessories. INCLUDES FULL SIZE PATTERNS FOR US DRESS SIZES 4 TO 22 African wax prints are colorful designs created by dyeing cotton fabric using wax-resist techniques, and then overprinting. The result is a fabric that is bright, colorful, and super-easy to use. Adaku Parker has developed 25 step-by-step projects to make a wide range of stylish pieces with this fabric. There are instant wardrobe classics like a shirt dress, A-line skirts, and culottes, as well as wonderful accessories such as tote bags, a zip purse, and a headband. The basic techniques you will need are all explained, so you’ll feel confident with essentials like attaching waistbands, gathering, pleats, making buttonholes, and adding linings. There are projects suitable for all skill levels so all you need is some gorgeous African wax print fabric and a sewing machine, and you’ll be on your way to updating your wardrobe with unique pieces that will help you stand out from the crowd.
Author: Debra Boyd-Buggs
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781569027387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWax Prints of the Sahel features colour photographs that depict original commemorative cotton cloths. Messages written on the cloths serve a griot function that aims to entertain and to educate the reader-viewer. Each cloth illustrates how commemorative wax prints are a means of preserving African cultural history for future generations.
Author: Chris Spring
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1588343804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican Textiles Today illustrates how African history is read, told, and recorded in cloth. All artifacts or works of art hold within them stories that range far beyond the time of their creation or the lifetime of their creator, and African textiles are patterned with these hidden histories. In Africa, cloth may be used to memorialize or commemorate something - an event, a person, a political cause - which in other parts of the world might be written down in detail or recorded by a plaque or monument. History in Africa can be read, told, and recorded in cloth. Making and trading numerous types of cloth have been vital elements in African life and culture for at least two millennia, linking different parts of the continent with each other and the rest of the world. Africa's long engagement with the peoples of the Mediterranean and the islands of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans provides a story of change and continuity. African Textiles Today shows how ideas, techniques, materials, and markets have adapted and flourished, and how the dynamic traditions in African textiles have provided inspiration for the continent's foremost contemporary artists and photographers. With a concluding chapter discussing the impact of African designs across the world, the book offers a fascinating insight into the living history of Africa.
Author: Shirley Friedland
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pictorial survey of African fabric prints includes contemporary bold two- and three-color designs, stripes, grids, and geometrics arranged with a focus on design, color, and pattern. Shown are commercially-made adaptations of traditional African designs in cotton, rayon, wool, synthetics, metallics and surface embellishment. The photographs are lively references and inspiration to artists and designers of fashion and fabrics.
Author: Elizabeth A. Sutton
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781409439707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study, art historian Elizabeth Sutton reads the engravings of Pieter de Marees' Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602) as a demonstration of the intertwining domains of the Dutch pictorial tradition, intellectual inquiry and Dutch mercantilism. Sutton examines the book's construction and marketing to shed new light on the social milieus that shared interests in ethnography, trade and travel, ultimately enhancing our understanding of the European imperial enterprise.
Author: Judith B. Hecker
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0870707566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEncompassing black-and-white linoleum cuts made at community art centres in the 1960s and 1970s, resistance posters and other political art of the 1980s, and the wide variety of subjects and techniques explored by artists in printships over the last two decades, printmaking has been a driving force in contemporary South African artistic and political expression. Impressions from South Africa: 1965 to Now, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, introduces the vital role of printmaking through works by more than twenty artists in the Museum's collection. The volume features prints by John Muafangejo and Dan Rakgoathe, a selection of posters produced for anti-apartheid coalitions in the 1980s, and nuanced political work by SueWilliamson, Norman Catherine andWilliam Kentridge. The book features many more recent projects, demonstrating the contemporary relevance of the medium in South Africa today. The work, presented in a generous plate section, is contextualized in an introduction by Judith B. Hecker, and accompanied by brief biographies of the artists, a timeline of relevant events in South African history, and a selected bibliography.
