World Weavers
World Weavers

Author: Kin Yuen Wong

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2005-11-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9622097219

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World Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This study attempts to investigate how our world has grown more and more interconnected not only due to technological advances, but also to a shared interest in those advances and to what they might lead to in the future. Science fiction has long been both literally and metaphorically linked to the emerging global village. It now takes on the task of exploring how the cybernetic revolution might transform the world and keep it one step ahead of the real world, despite ever-accelerating developments. As residents of a world that is undeniably globalized, science-fictional and virtual, it is incumbent on us to fully understand just how we came to live in such a world, and to envisage where this world may be heading next. World Weavers represents one small but significant step toward achieving such knowledge.

World Weavers
World Weavers

Author: Sam Gayton

Publisher: Andersen Press Limited

Published: 2023-03-02

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1787612031

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Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing ‘There are other ways to be mighty, you know. Not just world weaving. We got all sorts of other powers, ones that are just as magic. Slower, surer ways to change what’s around us. I’m talking about kindness. I’m talking about love. That’s what Ma was strong in.’ Hush Quiet is a girl with an infinite baseball cap and certain views on love and kindness. Her sister, Matilda, carries around a shotgun full of bees, and doesn’t need much excuse to fire it. Hush and Matilda have been hiding out in a pocket world, ever since the war started. Ever since Dustbowl fell. Ever since what happened to Ma. But when a boy with no memory crosses into their reality, the sisters must confront their past, each other, and the intoxicating power that has torn their lives apart . . . the power known as worldweaving.

The World of the Weaver in Northern Coromandel, C.1750-c.1850
The World of the Weaver in Northern Coromandel, C.1750-c.1850

Author: P. Swarnalatha

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9788125028680

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This Study Is Essentially An Attempt To Examine At The Level Of The Locality. The Total History Of The Weavers Of Northern Coromandel During A Period When India Was Being Incorporated Into The Modern World Economic System. It Examines, Through A Holistic Perspective, The Cultural, Economic, Political, And Social Environment In Which The Weavers Functioned, Which Was Governed At The Macro-Level By Their Engagement With The Colonial State. The Intersecting Of The Several Spheres Determining The Weavers Work Environment Reflect The Integral Nature Of Their Society.

Word Weavers
Word Weavers

Author: Eva Marie Everson

Publisher: Upwrite Books, a Division of Winepress Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781414110677

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Every writer needs a critique group for encouragement, feedback, motivation and inspiration. Word Weavers tells you how to form and maintain just such a group.

The Weaver's Idea Book
The Weaver's Idea Book

Author: Jane Patrick

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 1620331675

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New and experienced weavers alike are always on the lookout for new weave-structure patterns. The Weaver's Idea Book presents a wide variety of patterns for the simple rigid-heddle loom, accompanied by harness drafts for multishaft looms. The techniques include leno, Brooks bouquet, soumak, and embroidery on fabric. Each chapter contains weaving patterns along with swatches illustrating the techniques, accompanied by step-by-step photography. The book is arranged by structure or type of weave, from variations on plain weave to doubleweave. With traditional patterns from around the world, bands, and fabrics woven on two double heddles, The Weaver's Idea Book brings together a variety of ways to create exquisite cloth. Weaving tips and tricks help weavers at all levels achieve their textile dreams. In addition to pattern drafts, Jane offers project ideas that guide the reader through creating functional woven projects, from wearables to home decor. Weaving, especially on rigid-heddle looms, is enjoying a resurgence, and contemporary weavers are in need of a book to bridge the divide between basic books and complex text designed for advanced weavers with sophisticated tools. Celebrating the immense potential for creativity possible with the simplest of tools, The Weaver's Idea Book eBook opens new avenues for exploration on both the rigid-heddle and multishaft looms.

The World of the Banaras Weaver
The World of the Banaras Weaver

Author: Vasanthi Raman

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2019-08-05

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1000650472

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This book is a fascinating investigation into how communalism plays out in everyday India. Using the metaphor of tana-bana – the warp and the weft of the Banarasi sari – the author reproduces the interwoven life of Hindu-Muslim relations in the Banarasi sari industry. As the city of Banaras in Uttar Pradesh takes the centre stage as the site of this ethnographic study, the author documents the dissonance in representations of Banaras as a sacred Hindu city and its essential plural character. The volume • examines in-depth the lives of Banaras Muslims in the social and economic matrix of the sari industry; • highlights how women negotiate between home, family and their place in the artisanal industry; and • sheds light on their fast-changing world of the Banaras weavers and their responses to it. With a new introduction and fresh data, the second edition looks at the subsequent developments in the weaving industry over the last decade. This volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of social anthropology, gender studies, development studies, sociology and South Asian studies.

Weaving a World
Weaving a World

Author: Roseann Sandoval Willink

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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Profiles a West Bengali caste specializing in producing painted narrative scrolls and performing songs to accompany their unrolling.

Disney's Dream Weavers
Disney's Dream Weavers

Author: Chuck Schmidt

Publisher: Theme Park Press

Published: 2017-02-19

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781683900467

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A Web of Disney. In this unique comparative history, newspaper journalist Chuck Schmidt traces the slender, often invisible strands that connect four monumental achievements in our pop culture: Disneyland, Freedomland, the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, and Walt Disney World.

Weaver of Worlds
Weaver of Worlds

Author: David Jongeward

Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780892812707

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David Jongeward brings to life the artistic journey of master weaver Carolyn Jongeward, beginning with her apprenticeship to Navajo weavers in Arizona and extending to her studies in sacred geometry and number symbolism, Native American philosophy, Jungian psychology, and creation mythology.