Gloria F. Ross & Modern Tapestry
ISBN: 9780300166354 / Angielski / Twarda / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gloria F. Ross (1923-1998) described her work as the translation of paint into wool. She was deeply committed to reinventing the centuries-old art of tapestry, particularly championing the handmade in contemporary art. This remarkable book, written by textile scholar Ann Lane Hedlund, draws from rare unpublished archives to unravel the evolution of Ross's modern tapestries and to illuminate the significance of her creative partnerships. Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry features the collaborative work of 28 acclaimed modernist painters and sculptors, including Helen... Gloria F. Ross (1923-1998) described her work as the translation of paint into wool. She was deeply committed to reinventing the centuries-old art ... |
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248,54 zł |
Nini Towok's Spinning Wheel: Cloth and the Cycle of Life in Kerek, Java
ISBN: 9780977834426 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1976 Dutch textile specialist Rens Heringa first visited Kerek in rural East Java and discovered a region where?unlike the rest of Java?the full range of textiles with woven patterning, as well as the only batik still made on handwoven cotton cloth, continued to be produced for local use. Each type of cloth made in Kerek is created for a specific purpose?to be worn by a person of a particular age, social, or residential group; to serve in life-cycle events such as marriage or funerals; to act as a focal point in agricultural ceremonies or curing rites. The functions, techniques,... In 1976 Dutch textile specialist Rens Heringa first visited Kerek in rural East Java and discovered a region where?unlike the rest of Java?the full... |
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104,88 zł |
Margot Van Voorhies: The Art of Mexican Enamelwork
ISBN: 9780764335495 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Margot Van Voorhies was an American in the mid-twentieth century who went to Taxco, Mexico, and established a jewelry design business best known for exquisite enamel work. This fascinating book relates the pains of her childhood and eventual refuge in Mexico, where she developed an artistic talent into the Margot de Taxco workshop, that employed hundreds of artisans, particularly including women. Her associations with Taxco silversmiths, who were taught by innovator William Spratling, became the springboard for her own development and success. Margot's designs are distinctive, often based on...
Margot Van Voorhies was an American in the mid-twentieth century who went to Taxco, Mexico, and established a jewelry design business best known for e...
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254,01 zł |
Looking at Textiles: A Guide to Technical Terms
ISBN: 9781606060803 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Textiles have been made and used by every culture throughout history. However diverse - whether an Egyptian mummy wrapping, a Turkish carpet, Italian velvet, American quilt, or a Scottish kilt - all textiles have basic elements in common. This guide deals with the fundamental terms, materials, and techniques used to create textiles.
Textiles have been made and used by every culture throughout history. However diverse - whether an Egyptian mummy wrapping, a Turkish carpet, Italian ...
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87,14 zł |
Fiber Art Today
ISBN: 9780764337772 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A thoughtful survey of fiber sculpture and wall art portrayed in 335 vibrant images and insightful text. Explore the work of three generations of fine artists who have opened their minds and spirits to the boundless range of expressive possibilities in textile methods or materials. Even as the art on these pages references weaving, crochet or quilting, traditional textile notions disappear in the hands of serious artists, appropriating essential elements for their contemporary concepts. From looms, needles, embroidery hoops, and bare hands, ideas take form. Piles of cloth, yarn, beads,...
A thoughtful survey of fiber sculpture and wall art portrayed in 335 vibrant images and insightful text. Explore the work of three generations of fine...
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254,01 zł |
Jute, Fibre to Yarn
ISBN: 9780820600949 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS -PAGE - PREFACE - INTRODUCTION - 1. THE ANATOMY, CULTIVATION, AND MARKETING OF JUTE -2. THE STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF JUTE -3. AN OUTLINE OF THE PROCESS -4. JUTE BATCHING OILS AND EMULSIONS -5. JUTE BATCHING -6. CARDING -7. DRAWING -8. ROVING -9. SPINNING -10. THE SYSTEM -11. WINDING -12. QUALITY CONTROL -FURTHER READING -INDEX -
CONTENTS -PAGE - PREFACE - INTRODUCTION - 1. THE ANATOMY, CULTIVATION, AND MARKETING OF JUTE -2. THE STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF JUTE -3. AN OUTLINE O...
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709,36 zł |
Weaving a Chronicle
ISBN: 9780764340635 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Original ideas for tapestries in the techniques of double weave, inlay, and pattern weave are detailed in engaging text and illustrated by over 90 beautiful color photos displaying the completed tapestries. This captivating book also details stories of the competitive/collaborative nature of commissions integral to the creation of many tapestries. The story begins with the artist's work at Cranbrook Academy of Art. It continues with her work in Portland, Oregon, where it was embraced by art consultants, galleries, and collectors. This fascinating journey chronicles one artist's long career...
Original ideas for tapestries in the techniques of double weave, inlay, and pattern weave are detailed in engaging text and illustrated by over 90 bea...
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204,30 zł |
A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960
ISBN: 9780896727359 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Flip on the entertainment news, open an issue of a popular magazine, or step into any department store and you ll appreciate the impact of the multibillion-dollar fashion industry on American culture. Yet its origins in the nineteenth-century rag trade of Jewish tailors, cutters, pressers, peddlers, and shopkeepers have yet to be fully explored. In this copiously illustrated volume, scholars from varied backgrounds consider the role of American Jews in creating, developing, and furthering the national garment industry from the Civil War forward. Drawn from an award-winning exhibition of the...
Flip on the entertainment news, open an issue of a popular magazine, or step into any department store and you ll appreciate the impact of the multibi...
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218,18 zł |
The Great Wardrobe Accounts of Henry VII and Henry VIII
ISBN: 9780900952524 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the late fifteenth century the Great Wardrobe, the section of the royal household that supplied the king and his household with clothing and furnishings, was well established in the London parish of St Andrew by the Wardrobe (many of the suppliers of fabric to the Great Wardrobe and many of the individuals who worked for it lived and worked in the city). This volume provides an edition and calendar of the accounts for 1498-99 and 1510-11, as well as the section of the 1544 account relating to Henry VIII's campaign in France. In addition there are two appendices listing the recipients of...
By the late fifteenth century the Great Wardrobe, the section of the royal household that supplied the king and his household with clothing and furnis...
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419,75 zł |
Young Brides, Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress
ISBN: 9780295991634 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Macedonian ethnic dress is full of meaning and significance. It is visually stunning and embodies the skills, expectations, hopes and fears, creative use of materials, and aesthetic sense of the individuals who made and wore it. Saturated with cultural meaning, these many-layered ensembles rank among the best examples of textile art anywhere. This landmark catalog brings together scholarship by Macedonian experts with a museum collection in the United States and outstanding photography to present treasures of Macedonian dress from 1880 to 1950. Essays on embroidery, materials of... Macedonian ethnic dress is full of meaning and significance. It is visually stunning and embodies the skills, expectations, hopes and fears, creati... |
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262,34 zł |
High Fashion in the Church: The Place of Church Vestments in the History of Art from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781902653617 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The decoration of church vestments, which are the ceremonial garments worn by the clergy at the celebration of the Mass, has always been a matter of high fashion. In the first place the crafts of silk weaving and embroidery, which provide the technical means for the decoration of these garments, have held a prominent place in the changing fashions in the arts since the early Middle Ages, and since that time have been used in the service of the church as well as for secular purposes. Secondly in a narrower sense of the term, both these crafts have been at the heart of fashionable dress through...
The decoration of church vestments, which are the ceremonial garments worn by the clergy at the celebration of the Mass, has always been a matter of h...
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682,09 zł |
El Hilo Continuo - La Conservacion de Las Tradiciones Textiles de Oaxaca
ISBN: 9780892363827 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the Spanish edition of The Unbroken Thread. It details the efforts to conserve an important collection of traditional garments created by indigenous weavers in the Oaxaca region of Mexico and documents the use of the textiles in daily life and ceremony.
This is the Spanish edition of The Unbroken Thread. It details the efforts to conserve an important collection of traditional garments created by indi...
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193,31 zł |
Costume Design and Illustration
ISBN: 9781933492582 / Angielski / Miękka / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spearheaded by Constantine Sekeris, author of "MetamorFX," this book is an in-depth look at costume design and illustration. Showcasing an educational process breaking down the problematic areas of costume design for the film, video game and animation industries. From 10 top leading artists in the field, this title will have a wide range of aesthetic and design solutions. One will learn how to design and illustrate a costume from start to finish with educational tips and the process from sketches to finished Photoshop images to 3D ZBrush sculptures to fabrication.
Spearheaded by Constantine Sekeris, author of "MetamorFX," this book is an in-depth look at costume design and illustration. Showcasing an educational...
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122,08 zł |
Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map
ISBN: 9781350027510 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking a major textile artwork, The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrounding contemporary textile art today. It explores gestures of community and controversy manifest in contemporary textile art practices, as both process and object. Created by more than 2,000 knitters from 22 different countries, who were mostly working-class women, The Knitting Map became the subject of national controversy in Ireland. Exploring the creation of this multi-modal artwork as a key moment in Irish art history, Textiles, Community...
Taking a major textile artwork, The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrou...
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419,75 zł |
Textiles, Community and Controversy: The Knitting Map
ISBN: 9781350027527 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking a major textile artwork, The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrounding contemporary textile art today. It explores gestures of community and controversy manifest in contemporary textile art practices, as both process and object. Created by more than 2,000 knitters from 22 different countries, who were mostly working-class women, The Knitting Map became the subject of national controversy in Ireland. Exploring the creation of this multi-modal artwork as a key moment in Irish art history, Textiles, Community...
Taking a major textile artwork, The Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical issues surrou...
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131,12 zł |
Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture: Volume 11, Issue 1
ISBN: 9781472518071 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting journal brings together research in textiles in an innovative and distinctive academic forum, and will be of interest to all those who share a multifaceted view of textiles within an expanded field. Representing a dynamic and wide-ranging set of critical practices, it provides a platform for points of departure between art and craft; gender and identity; cloth, body and architecture; labour and technology; techno-design and practice - all situated within the broader contexts of material and visual culture.
This exciting journal brings together research in textiles in an innovative and distinctive academic forum, and will be of interest to all those who s...
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104,88 zł |
Indian Textiles
ISBN: 9780500291184 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This all-encompassing survey of textiles from every region of the Indian subcontinent runs the gamut of commercial, tribal, and folk textiles. The authors first place them in context by examining the cultural background: the history, the materials, and the techniques--weaving, printing, painting, and tie-dye. They then give a detailed region-by-region account of traditional textiles production, including chapters on Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. A dazzling array of images provides an unsurpassed visual representation of the textiles, while a detailed reference section with further...
This all-encompassing survey of textiles from every region of the Indian subcontinent runs the gamut of commercial, tribal, and folk textiles. The aut...
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129,35 zł |
Frances L. Goodrich's Brown Book of Weaving Drafts
ISBN: 9780764345418 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of traditional eighteenth and nineteenth century weaving drafts, written sequences of the threading order on the loom used to create specific patterns. They are presented here in their original form as gathered by Frances L. Goodrich and illustrated in over 160 color photos. This volume also contains over 200 valuable modern translations of the same drafts for use by today's weavers. In 1890, Frances L. Goodrich came to the southern mountains in North Carolina from a life of culture to live and work among people who had little opportunity for education or social enrichment....
A collection of traditional eighteenth and nineteenth century weaving drafts, written sequences of the threading order on the loom used to create spec...
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212,09 zł |
Irene: A Designer from the Golden Age of Hollywood: The MGM Years 1942-1949
ISBN: 9780764345555 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hollywood's Golden Age was graced with thousands of breathtaking looks by a designer who was known simply as Irene. Based on unprecedented access to the records and remembrances of Irene's personal artist, Virginia Fisher, this insider's look tells the story of Irene's years at MGM studios. Marvellously illustrated with over 150 original sketches and photography from the time period, Irene's exhilarating story, filled with memories that have a cloying edge and are, at times, chilling, comes to life in this thoroughly researched resource on her career and legacy. From her early years as a...
Hollywood's Golden Age was graced with thousands of breathtaking looks by a designer who was known simply as Irene. Based on unprecedented access to t...
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254,01 zł |
Qing Imperial Costume Design: Yin-Yang Philosophical Influences
ISBN: 9780988647008 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text features six Qing imperial costumes from the University of Hawai'i Asian Costume Collection and four Qing imperial costumes from the Honolulu Museum of Art. The author has explored the concept of Chinese design theory to realize how important the concept of balance and harmony as realized in the yin-yang philosophy is in Qing imperial robes design.
This text features six Qing imperial costumes from the University of Hawai'i Asian Costume Collection and four Qing imperial costumes from the Honolul...
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250,91 zł |