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Author:
Gordon, Beverly.
Title:
Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance / Beverly Gordon.
Publisher:
Thames & Hudson,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
304 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Subject:
Textile fabrics.
Textile fabrics--Social aspects.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
Notes:
"With 380 illustrations, 318 in colour". Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
0500515662
9780500515662
OCLC:
(OCoLC)755665069
LCCN:
2011922631
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

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