Textiles: The Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significance
by Beverly Gordon
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Discusses how textiles are an integral part of the human life journey from cradle to grave in a multitude of practical, symbolic and spiritual ways. This title illustrates the many uses of textiles in our everyday lives. It outlines how textiles are a means of communication functional, political and artistic and a metaphor for transcendence.Tags
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- Original title
- Textiles: The Whole Story: Uses, Meanings, Significance
- Original publication date
- 2011-11-07
- Dedication
- For everyone everywhere who has fallen under the textile spell.
- First words
- A decade ago, I came upon a feature entitled "Air Conditioned Clothes" in a widely distributed Sunday newspaper supplement aimed at teenagers. (Preface)
Textiles are a central part of human consciousness. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Hopefully, this holistic consideration of the meanings of textiles will help reawaken that understanding in those who have not yet thought much about it, and help us feel a new sense of connection and appreciation.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Art & Design, Home & Garden, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 746 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Fashion Design / Weaving, Knitting, Embroidery
- LCC
- GT525 .G673 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Manners and customs (General) Manners and customs (General) Costume. Dress. Fashion
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- Languages
- English
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