Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance / Beverly Gordon.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2011Description: 304 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0500515662
- 9780500515662
- 746 23
- GT525 .G67 2011
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 746 GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A519253B |
"With 380 illustrations, 318 in colour".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The very fabric of existence : textiles in human consciousness -- Living on the earth : textiles and human survival -- The ties that bind : the social meanings of textiles -- Cloth and temporal power : money, trade, status, and control -- Cloth as communication : expressing meaning, messages, and beauty -- Textiles and the spirit : the sacred, spiritual, and healing significance of cloth.
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.
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