The Handbook of Textile Culture

Jefferies, Janis K.; Wood Conroy, Diana and Clark, Hazel, eds. 2015. The Handbook of Textile Culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780857857750 [Edited Book]

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In recent years, the study of textiles and culture has become a dynamic field of scholarship, reflecting new global, material and technological possibilities. This is the first handbook of specially commissioned essays to provide a guide to the major strands of critical work around textiles past and present and to draw upon the work of artists and designers as well as researchers in textiles studies.

The handbook offers an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to the topics, issues, and questions that are central to the study of textiles today: it examines how material practices reflect cross-cultural influences; it explores textiles' relationships to history, memory, place, and social and technological change; and considers their influence on fashion and design, sustainable production, craft, architecture, curation and contemporary textile art practice.

This illustrated volume will be essential reading for students and scholars involved in research on textiles and related subjects such as dress, costume and fashion, feminism and gender, art and design, and cultural history.

Cover image: Anne Wilson, To Cross (Walking New York), 2014. Site-specific performance and sculpture at The Drawing Center, NYC. Thread cross research. Photo: Christie Carlson/Anne Wilson Studio.
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Edited Book

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Computing

Date:

5 November 2015

Item ID:

18182

Date Deposited:

10 May 2016 12:24

Last Modified:

29 Apr 2020 16:19

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https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/18182

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