A Companion to Textile Culture

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Series Editor Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Section 1: Histories and Frameworks

Introduction

1 Margarita Gleba, Unraveling the Fabric of the Past: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Archaeological Textiles

2 Robert DuPlessis, Textile Cultures in the Early Modern World

3 Meredith G. Clark, Rewriting Textile Culture with Woven Words: "Ora es tu hilar" by Chilean Poet Cecilia Vicuña

4 Eiluned Edwards, Branding tradition: the commercialization of hand embroidery in Gujarat

5 Adrienne D. Hood, 'The Real Thing': How Object Analysis Unlocks Meaning and Enriches Documentary Evidence

Section 2: Textiles, Trade and Global Culture

Introduction

6 Angela Sheng, Reading Textiles: Transmission and Technology of Silk Road Textiles in the First Millennium

7 John Picton, West Africa: Technology, Tradition and Lurex Revisited

8 Chris Spring, Textiles of Eastern and Southern Africa

9 Naazish Ata-Ullah, Zeb Bilal and Shehnaz Ismail, Remaking Tradition in Art and Design in Pakistan

Section 3: The Social Fabric: The Politics and Poetics of Cloth

Introduction

10 Paul Sharrad, Fabricating Identity: Textiles in the Pacific

11 Maureen Daly Goggin, Stitching (in) Trauma: Constructing Identity in Thread Behind Prison Bars

12 Alexandra Kokoli, Creative Tensions: Making (it), unmaking, and making do in textiles informed by feminism

13 Christine Checinska, Spinning a Yarn of One's Own

14 Valerie Behiery, Pictures and Polemics: Muslim Veiling Practices in Contemporary Art

15 Lisa Vinebaum, The Subversive Stitch Revisited

Section 4: Conceptual Boundaries

Introduction

16 Virginia Gardner Troy, Modernism's Roots in the Domestic, Decorative and Vernacular Through Textiles

17 Jennifer Harris, Material Strategies: Cloth and textile metaphors in modern and contemporary art

18 Maxine Bristow, Pragmatics of attachment and detachment: a constellatory re-inscription of textile

19 Akiko Moriyami, Japanese Textile Culture - the example of Junichi Arai and five other creators

20 Atta Kwami, Stories of Innovation: Fabrication in Africa and Beyond

Section 5: Reception and Representation

Introduction

21 Janis Jefferies and Lee Weinberg, Around the World in 80 Biennials: Curating Lausanne, Hangzhou, Kaunas

22 Elizabeth Kalbfleisch and Janet Catherine Berlo, Indigenous Textiles of North America: A Century of Exhibitions

23 Karin E. Peterson and Leisa Rundquist, Valorizing Gee's Bend Quilts: Affinity, Adjacency, and the Modern Eye

24 Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Performing the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, syncretism and globalization

Index