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Japanese Textiles Of Daily Life, Iwao Nagasaki
Japanese Textiles Of Daily Life, Iwao Nagasaki
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
The main function of textiles in daily life is that of clothing. Along with food and shelter, clothing the body from the elements has been one of the most essential conditions since primitive times. Since the time when animal hides and plant parts were used to protect one's body from the external world, clothing has always been closely related to human life. Therefore, it can be said that clothes were invented and developed for daily use and, at the primitive level, one type of garment served all purposes.
At this level, the material and style of clothing were one hundred …
Handweaving In The Everyday Life Of Artisans, Merchants And Consumers In Fez, Morocco, In The 1980'S, Lotus Stack
Handweaving In The Everyday Life Of Artisans, Merchants And Consumers In Fez, Morocco, In The 1980'S, Lotus Stack
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
My original desire to study an urban center which still produced elaborate handmade textiles was to provide some possible clues to more seriously consider the practical side of historic production. In other words, what were the physical concerns and limitations of cloth production. In the end I learned that textiles often function in a very complex, multidimensional form and cannot be truly understood without considering many facets of the society which produced them. Conversely, in societies where textiles are highly valued, their study can add much to understanding everything from cultural values, economics and technology to international politics.
In addition …
Textiles And Identity In Prehistoric Southwestern North America, Lynn S. Teague
Textiles And Identity In Prehistoric Southwestern North America, Lynn S. Teague
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
This study focuses on the place that textiles had in the lives of people in the central Greater Southwest after about A.D.1000, and in particular on the development of two distinctive traditions in cloth that co-existed in the central Southwest during this period. These traditions were the predecessors of two equally distinctive historic textile traditions, those of the puebloan people of the Colorado Plateau and those of the O'Odham in the Sonora Desert of southern and central Arizona.
Clothing is a basic means of indicating social identity, and in the prehistoric Southwest provides some of our most intriguing evidence of …