Global Textile Encounters: 20 (Ancient Textiles Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178297735X ISBN 13: 9781782977353

Verlag: Oxbow Books, 2014

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It's new and refreshing to read so many current and well-documented examples of exchanges between east and west, north and south. * Tenen * It is a rare delight these days to encounter a scholarly tome that is adequately illustrated; with 240 images, mostly in colour, spread across 300 pages this book more than makes the grade...anyone who is interested in the history of textiles and/or clothing will find something worthwhile in this excellent book. * maozhang.net *

Reseña del editor

Global Textile Encounters is a fascinating journey into three significant textiles and clothing cultures: China, India and Europe. The common thread is how fashions and traditions have travelled through space and time. In this richly illustrated anthology, with its 242 images, written both by textile researchers and practitioners as well as scholars from other fields across the globe, we hear of various types of encounters that bring to life a world of interactions and consequences as colourful as the textiles themselves. Among the 33 contributions we learn of an historian of ancient Roman textiles who has an intellectual epiphany in the streets of modern Iran; of 17th-century European Jesuits spreading the Gospel in Asia who attire themselves in the clothing suitable to their host countries; a visiting Siamese delegation that unwittingly creates fashion in 18th-century France;; how Chinese textile technology changed as a result of encountering textile patterns along the silk road; how political messages are conveyed in the sari; how Maharajahs inspired global pop culture; and the value we ascribe to old clothing. Recurrent themes include how religious praxis is informed by textile encounters; how travelling textiles enable patterns and symbols to be copied onto stone and metals; and textile motifs that acquire other symbolic meanings in their travels and encounters with different societies. This sensibly priced, highly readable paperback, edited by three eminent textile scholars from Europe, China and India, is aimed at the interested general public and students. A Chinese version will be published by Donghua University Press in China.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxbow Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 178297735X
• ISBN 13: 9781782977353
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Nosch Marie-Louise, Feng Zhao, Varadarajan Lotika