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Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance / Beverly Gordon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2011Description: 304 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0500515662
  • 9780500515662
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 746 23
LOC classification:
  • GT525 .G67 2011
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
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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