Threads Around the World
Threads Around the World

Author: Deb Brandon

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11-28

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780764356506

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Handmade textiles are personal, no matter where in the world they're created, and these photos and explanations of 25 diverse world cultures' techniques vividly share the details. Take a voyage through these pages and see how today's artisans continue to create traditional fiber arts with age-old methods. Blending well-researched information, engaging style, and inspiration, the pages explore espadrilles, flatwoven rugs, mittens, voudou flags, mirror embroidery, and the histories they hold. This open-eyed approach will appeal to textile devotees, from the casually curious to professional artists, and to people who are interested in heritage crafts and diverse cultures. Brandon has written for more than a decade for WARP (Weave A Real Peace), anonprofit networking organization whose members are dedicated toimproving the quality of life of textile artisans in communities inneed.

Threads of Life
Threads of Life

Author: Clare Hunter

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 168335771X

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This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.

The Longest, Strongest Thread
The Longest, Strongest Thread

Author: Inbal Leitner

Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing

Published: 2022-09-06

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1632892464

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Fans of the Invisible String will love this story about a grandmother and granddaughter who must find different ways to stay connected even when they are far apart. A little girl is moving far away from Grandma. Neither wants to say goodbye. But when Grandma brings the girl into her sewing room, she shows her that they have the longest, strongest thread in the whole world to keep them connected. Full of hope and heart, this book reminds kids that family connections transcend physical separation, no matter how far apart we are.

A Tapestry of Faiths
A Tapestry of Faiths

Author: Winfried Corduan

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 172522626X

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Christians find themselves in an increasingly diverse world. The new place of worship in our neighborhood might just as likely be a Hindu temple or a Muslim mosque as a church or a synagogue. How should we view other world religions, and more important, how should we engage our religiously oriented neighbors in conversation? Do all religions teach the same thing? Or are there significant differences? Do we try to minimize differences and just get along? Or do we hold out the Christian faith as the one true hope for all the world? Drawing on his wide experience and knowledge of other religions and how they are actually lived, Winfried Corduan helps us sort through the complex tapestry of faiths around the globe. He contends that there are common threads of understanding that can serve to link us in meaningful discussion. From these common threads we can go on to explore genuine differences. Through the course of the book, Corduan leads readers to explore the important issues of revelation and truth, morality and guilt, grace and redemption, eschatology and hope. Ultimately, Jesus Christ, he argues, stands unique among religious figures and Christianity unique among the world's religions. This is a book that strengthens Christians in their convictions while encouraging them to engage their neighbors with humility, loved, and discernment.

Quilts Around the World
Quilts Around the World

Author: Spike Gillespie

Publisher: Voyageur Press

Published: 2010-11-21

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1610600916

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This essential book for all quilters and quilt collectors tells the fascinating story of quilting around the world, illuminated by the international quilt community’s top experts and more than 300 glorious color photographs. Covering Japan, China, Korea, and India; England, Ireland, France, and The Netherlands; Australia, Africa, Central America, North America, and beyond, Quilts Around the World explores both the diversity and common threads of quilting. Discover Aboriginal patchwork from Australia, intricate Rallis from the Middle East, Amish and Hawaiian quilts from the United States, Sashiko quilts from Japan, vivid Molas from Central America, and art quilts from every corner of the globe. Also included are twenty patchwork and applique patterns to use in your own quilt projects, inspired by designs from the world’s most striking quilts.

An Invisible Thread
An Invisible Thread

Author: Laura Schroff

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1451648979

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A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.

João by a Thread
João by a Thread

Author: Roger Mello

Publisher: Elsewhere Editions

Published: 2022-10-25

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 1953861350

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An intricate and exquisite tale of how bedtime fears can be transformed into wondrous dreams and magical adventures, by Hans Christian Andersen award–winning Roger Mello As João tucks under a lovingly woven quilt, he asks himself: So it’s just me now? He curls up, getting cozy in bed, and soon the world of his dreams unspools on the page. The blanket in his bed unravels into deep rivers, lakes, valleys, reservoirs, mountain ranges, fishing nets full of tadpoles and gaping holes, until what’s left is just one long thread. When he feels alone and scared in the dark, João “sews words like patchwork” into a new blanket to cover himself up. He weaves the threads of his quilt until they form one long sentence, and soon, the nighttime is peppered with his own silvery, slippery words. Roger Mello draws like a shapeshifter – to look at his illustrations is always to see something you missed before (a stingray, a crescent moon nestled into the palm of João’s hand). His breathtaking line drawings, beaming in white thread against deep red, combined with poetic and bewildered language, make João by a Thread a book to take into bed at the edge of sleep, just before you start to dream.

Threads from the Web of Life
Threads from the Web of Life

Author: Stephen Daubert

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780826515094

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Creative, science-grounded stories about nature for the curious and imaginative of all ages.

The Fabric of Civilization
The Fabric of Civilization

Author: Virginia Postrel

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1541617614

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From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide. The story of humanity is the story of textiles -- as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo's David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code. Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world's most influential commodity.

Common Threads of Practice
Common Threads of Practice

Author: Katharine Davies Samway

Publisher: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Incorporated

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780939791477

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This text offers teacher accounts of teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) in grades K-8 worldwide. Articles included are: (1) "Common Threads, Common Bonds" (Denise McKeon and Katharine Davies Samway); (2) "For a Brighter Future: SPEAK Project in Soweto" (Pippa Stein); (3) "The 'Essence of Sliding': Encouraging Elementary ESL Students To Become Creative Writers" (J. Wesley Eby); (4) "Watson and Son's EFL Class: Teaching English to Chinese Children Using Only English and a U.S. Peer" (Tim Watson); (5) "Teaching English in Russia" (Alevtina Poliak); (6) "Teaching English in Primary Schools in Brunei Darussalam" (Ng Seok Moi and Wendy Preston); (7) "Learning English Naturally in Emelie Parker's Classroom" (Sue Sherman); (8) "How Do They Learn To Read and Write? Literacy Instruction in a Refugee Camp" (Lauren Hoyt); (9) "Team Teaching in Second Grade (Don't Pull Out the Kids, Pull In the Teacher)" (Carlyn Syvanen); (10) "English in Austrian Primary Schools" (Maria Felberbauer); (11) "Teaching English to Children in China" (Bi Qing); (12) "Primary Education and Language Teaching in Botswana" (Lydia Nyati Ramahobo and Janet Ramsay Orr); (13) "A Tale of Two Cultures: At Home in the German School Washington" (Donna Stassen); (14) "Teaching English in Estonia: Using Reading and Writing Process Methods To Teach EFL" (Emma Wood Rous). (Each essay contains references. A teacher resources list is included.) (NAV)