The common thread : the warp and weft of thinking

The common thread : the warp and weft of thinking / edited by Vanessa von Gliszczynski, Mona Suhrbier und Eva Ch. Raabe ; translations, Andrew Boreham [and three others] ; Weltkulturen Museum.

From fibers to threads and dyes to fabrics, The Common Thread looks at textile techniques and their contexts of meaning, with the Museum of World Cultures' collections from the Americas, Indonesia, Oceania, and Africa forming the starting point. The book presents connections between textile ski...

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Other Authors: Gliszczynski, Vanessa von (Editor), Suhrbier, Mona B. (Editor), Raabe, Eva Ch., 1957- (Editor), Boreham, Andrew (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Bielefeld : Kerber Verlag, [2016]
Series:Kerber culture.
Subjects:
Weaving > Exhibitions.
Textile industry > Exhibitions.
Textile fabrics > Exhibitions.
Textile design > Exhibitions.
Textile design.
Textile fabrics.
Textile industry.
Weaving.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreward / Eva Ch. Raabe
  • The common thread : the warp and weft of thinking / Vanessa von Gliszczynski, Mona Suhrbier and Eva Raabe
  • Fibres spinning threads. Introduction / Mona Suhrbier ; The tale of a dust bunny / Jens Soentgen
  • Dyeing for colour. Introduction / Vanessa von Gliszczynski ; True colours : colour symbolism and dyeing techniques in the Indonesian archipelago / Vanessa von Gliszczynski ; Red threads in Flores / Willemijn de Jong
  • Weaving plaiting knitting. Introduction / Eva Ch. Raabe ; A warping bench from Kosrae : backstrap loom weaving in Oceania / Eva Ch. Raabe ; Māori textile construction / Rangi Te Kanawa
  • Patterns symbols abstractions. Introduction / Vanessa von Gliszczynski ; Interwoven relationships : textiles from the south Andean highlands and their patterns / Dagmar Schweitzer de Palacios
  • Textile thinking textile learning. Introduction/ Vanessa von Gliszczynski and Mona Suhrbier ; Weaving learning living : textile education in South America / Mona Suhrbier ; Cognitive and embodied competences in weaving design / Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen
  • Textile responsibility. Introduction / Mona Suhrbier ; The global textile industry : environmental effects, social conditions and consumer behaviour / Tim Zahn ; Between a rock and a hard place : intangible culture and globalization in Indonesia's textile traditions / William Ingram
  • Reading textiles in a new way. Introduction / Vanessa von Gliszczynski ; Material poetry : the art of Shan Goshorn and Sarah Sense / Max Carocci ; The common thread in music / Gerhard Müller-Hornbach ; From weaving to web / Ruth Stützle Kaiser und Maren Gebhardt.

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