Introduction -- Textile as making: techne between practice and theory -- Weaving the chapters -- (Inter)mingling -- Chapter 1: Folding -- An unfolding of making -- Metaphorics and metonymy as enfolding modes for thinking -- Textile-space -- La Maison Baroque -- Chapter 2: Textile as shimmering surface -- Veils: A space of scintillation -- Faintly gleaming -- Illicit encounters -- Absurdity -- Through the looking glass -- Chapter 3: Seaming -- Seaming as Passage -- Hand and machine stitching -- Seaming as suturing -- Seaming as Trace -- Conjunctions and crossings -- Chapter 4: Textile as viscous substance -- Attacking the boundary -- Collapsing boundaries -- Flow -- Ontological secretions -- A substance between two states -- Chapter 5: Fraying -- Frayed and fraying: A politics of translation -- Frayed and fraying cloth: Broken and contingent -- To the edge: Pointing away from the centre -- Worn through -- Fraying -- Chapter 6: Textile as caressing subject/object -- Affective touching -- Proximity -- Opening out - becoming . . . -- Measuring distance -- First actions of hands -- Synoptic-synthaesthetic caressing -- Conclusion -- Thinking-through-practice -- Textile practices as methodology -- Practice-theory interplay.
Summary:
"A Philosophy of Textile brings together the materiality, imagery and language of textile to develop practice-based modes of thinking, making and writing"-- Provided by publisher.
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