Previous edition: London: Berg, 2012. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The trouble with the cotton people (excerpt) (1984) / 45. Textiles, text and techne (1997) / Ursula K. Le Guin."} 2. The haptics of optics: weaving and photography (excerpt) (2014) / T'ai Smith ; 3. The tacit-turn: textile design in design research (2010) / Elaine Igoe ; 4. Folds, fragments, surfaces: towards a poetics of cloth (1999) / Pennina Barnett ; 5. Meditation on translation and seduction (2005) / Catherine Harper ; 6. The blank page (1957) / Isak Dinesen ; 7. How do you footnote a smile? One dialog about two extremes of textile research (2020) / Birgitta Nordstrom -- Part two. Memory. 8. Stain: on cloth, stigma, and shame (2000) / Jenni Sorkin ; 9. Claiming the right to memory, stitch by stitch: the experience of the Costurero Tejedoras por la Memoria de Sonson (the Sonson Memory Sewing Group) (2013/2021) / Isabel Cristina Gonzalez Arango ; 10. We are living on a star (excerpt) (2019) / Marit Paasche ; 11. The silent weaver (excerpt) (2011) / Roger Hutchinson ; 12. Interview: Faith Ringgold and Hans Ulrich Obrist (excerpt) (2019) / Faith Ringgold ; 13. Collecting the contemporary: love will decide what is kept and science will decide how it is kept (2005) / Sue Prichard ; 14. (Im)mortal fashion: Iris van Herpen's "Skeleton" dress (2020) / Sarah Scaturro ; 15. Hong Kong's textile industrial heritage: transformations to a place of weaving creative experiences for all (2019) / Takahashi Mizuki -- Part three. Structure. 16. The four elements of architecture (excerpt) (1851/1989) / Gottfried Semper ; 17. Reflexive textile (1999) / Philip Beesley ; 18. Fabrics in space & weaving and interior design: voice-over for the video discussion of material (excerpt) (1930/2019) / Otti Berger and Judith Raum ; 19. Ouvrage: knot a not, notes as knots (1997) / Catherine de Zegher ; 20. 1440 the smooth & the striated (excerpt) (1987) / Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari ; 21. Knitting is... (2008) / Sabrina Gschwandtner ; 22. Circular speeds: a review of fast & slow sustainable design approaches for fashion & textile applications (2019) / Kate Goldsworthy, Rebecca Earley and Kay Politowicz -- Part four. Politics. 23. Autobiography of a pocket handkerchief (excerpt) (1843) / James Fenimore Cooper ; 24. Weaving as metaphor and model for political thought (2006) / Arthur C. Danto ; 25. Arachne's genre: towards intercultural studies in textiles (1991) / Sarat Maharaj ; 26. Gandhi and khadi, the fabric of Indian independence (1989) / Susan S. Bean ; 27. 100% cotton (2011) / Pamela Johnson ; 28. Ivanovo's agitprop textiles: design and inscriptions (2011/2021) / Galina Kareva ; 29. Fiber art and the hierarchy of art and craft, 1960-80 (2008) / Elisa Auther ; 30. Queer handmaking (excerpt) (2017) / Julia Bryan-Wilson ; 31. The yellow wallpaper (excerpt) (1892) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Part five. Production. 32. The man in the white suit (excerpt) (1951) / Roger MacDougall ; 33. Machine oil smells sweet (piecework) (2018) / Maria Fusco ; 34. The romance of modern manufacture: a brief history of embroidered embellishment (2007) / Melanie Miller ; 35. Zeroes + ones: digital women + the new technoculture (excerpt) (1997) / Sadie Plant ; 36. Open source embroidery: curatorial facilitation of material networks (2010) / Ele Carpenter ; 37. Why should the copyright thing work here? (excerpt) (2011) / Boatema Boateng ; 38. Contemporary textile imagery in southern Africa: a question of ownership (2015) / Sarah Rhodes ; 39. Henequen, a green fiber with a complex history in Yucatan (2016/2021) / Yosi Anaya -- Part six. Community. 40. The scarlet letter (excerpt) (1850) / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; 41. Needlework and the creation of masculinities: "the prick" of patriarchy (excerpt) (2021) / Joseph McBrinn ; 42. Navigation, nuance and half/angel's knitting map: a series of navigational directions... (2012) / Jools Gilson ; 43. Tracing back to trace forwards: what does it mean/take to be a Black textile designer (2020) / Rose Sinclair ; 44. Everyday use (1973) / Alice Walker ; 45. The trouble with the cotton people (excerpt) (1984) / Ursula K. Le Guin."}
Summary:
"Addressing textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and field of scholarly research, The Textile Reader introduces students to the key issues essential to the exploration of the textile from both a critical and a creative perspective. The second edition brings together lectures, catalogue essays, academic articles, fiction and poetry, as well as several articles available in English translation for the first time, to capture the diversity of voices informing textile studies today"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.