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Embodying Embroidery: Researching Women's Folk Art In Western India, Michele Hardy
Embodying Embroidery: Researching Women's Folk Art In Western India, Michele Hardy
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
South Asia is home to an incredibly rich variety of embroideries that include folk, courtly, ritual, and commercial traditions. The scholarly literature on South Asian embroidery has been meagre however and historically emphasized professional embroideries at the expense of the folkl. With few recent exceptions2 folk embroidery in the Sub-Continent has most often been described and classified without reference to the women who make it or the specific cultural traditions that support and give meaning to it3. These 'characterising' accounts of folk embroidery are likely the result of historic circumstance and ancient bias4 but …
Japanese Kimono Fashion Of The Early Twentieth Century, Annie Van Asche
Japanese Kimono Fashion Of The Early Twentieth Century, Annie Van Asche
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
This paper examines the development of popular kimono fashion from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. I focus on kimono worn by modem-thinking young women whose wardrobes, by the 1920's, included both new Western and recreated Japanese garments and accessories. The meisen kasuri kimono, the most popular new style of kimono among women living in the growing urban metropolitan centers, is highlighted. It covers an unprecedented historical period of rapid modernization and Westernization of Japan, which brought about societal changes that dramatically--and positively--transformed the lives of Japanese women. I begin with a historical sketch of the industrialization of …