Textile: v. 4, Issue 2
The Journal of Cloth and Culture
Published on 1. July 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-84520-505-8 (ISBN)
Description
This exciting journal brings together research 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.
Reviews / Votes
Winner of the ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Best New Journal 2005'This journal has a lot going for it. It is easy to handle, well printed on good paper, imaginatively designed. Any university or college with an interest in textiles should subscribe to it and make it easily available. For individual scholars and makers, the journal provides a useful resource and will be a pleasure to collect and possess.'Times Higher Education Supplement'I welcome this journal as an exciting event, which has been long overdue. It provides a window into the vast field of textiles, which is the very fabric of our life.'Jasleen Dhamija, Independent Scholar'Textile aims to publish cutting-edge research into the meanings of cloth, within the broadest context of material and visual culture. On this first showing, the publication is not only academic but accessible, with diverse contributions presented in a readable format Textile shows that wider cultural interest in 'the crafts' comes when we dMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
colour illus.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
205 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84520-505-8 (9781845205058)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Doran Ross is at UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles. Catherine Harper is Head of the School of Architecture and Design, University of Brighton.
Content
* Exotic Quilt Patterns and Pattern Names in the 1920s and 1930s Marin F. Hanson * Symbolic Consumption: Dressing for Real and Imagined Space Elaine Webster * Talk about Muslin: Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey Clair Hughes * Dialog Introduction Catherine Harper and Doran Ross * Dialog On the Outside, Looking In: The Iconography of the Outsider in Contemporary Fashion Nilgin Yusuf * Exhibition Review * Book Reviews