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From Court To Convent: A Silk Embroidered Sampler From Colonial Mexico, Bobbie Sumberg

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Silk appears frequently in many Mexican textiles and garments such as rebozos, skirts, and huipils or blouses. In this paper I discuss a different tradition, that of sampler embroidery in the urban style.

Yrene Escandon was reported to be a lady in waiting for Empress Carlotta, who reigned in Mexico with her husband Emperor Maximilien from 1 863-1867. During this time and before entering a convent after her service she and some friends embroidered a sampler replete with floral, religious, animal, and bird motifs. Using this remarkable piece in the collection of the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa …

"Dichotomies In Silk: Past And Future", Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The traditions of silk weaving and hand dyeing of silk cloth have been an integral part of the Japanese society and aesthetic, as exists in the Imperial Court of Japan. To this day, the Empress still cultivates the same strain of silkworm koishimaru, dating back to the Nara period (645-794).

Currently, only a fraction of the raw silk materials (reeled silk yarn and cocoons) used to produce Japanese silk textiles are actually produced by Japan. Competition from current foreign imports, textile manufacturers' indifference to the quality of raw materials, and decreasing usage of kimonos challenge the viability of labor-intensive …

The Impact Of Silk On Ottonian And Salian Manuscripts, Stephen Wagner

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In keeping with the theme of the symposium's title, "Silk Roads, Other Roads," the medieval roads that this essay will travel converge in a number of ways. Most importantly, two distinctive art forms came together for a brief period in Germany during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the period of Ottonian and Salian rule. The two products, silk and illuminated manuscripts shared important qualities. Not only were they among the most luxurious objects of the middle ages, but they also assisted bishops and rulers advance their political programs. This phenomenon developed as a result of increased interaction with a major …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 23 (2002), Virginia Gunn, Melissa Jurenga, Connie J. Nordstrom, Judy Elsley, Kim M. King, Carolyn O'Bagy Davis, Marilyn Goldman

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

She Hath Done What She Could: Discovering Memories on a New York Friendship Quilt Vll by Melissa Jurenga

One Pot of Flowers Quilt Pattern--Blossoming Through Centuries by Connie J. Nordstrom

Read Me a Story: Cultural Values in Children's Quilt Fiction by Judy Elsley

Quiltmakers' Online Communities by Kim M. King

Fanny and the Busy Bees by Carolyn O'Bagy Davis

The Wilkinson Quilt Company: "America's Original Makers of Fine Quilts" by Marilyn Goldman

Authors and Editor

Index

Blanket Statements, Issue 66, Fall 2001

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 66, Fall 2001

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 13:3 – Fall 2001, Textile Society Of America

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Northampton, MA
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University of Minnesota Programs in Apparel
Member News, Letter from the President
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Blanket Statements, Issue 65, Summer 2001

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 65, Summer 2001

Blanket Statements, Issue 64, Spring 2001

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 64, Spring 2001

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 13:2 – Spring 2001, Textile Society Of America

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American Paintings From The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery An Institutional History In Pictures, Daniel A. Siedell

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is pleased to present American Paintings from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: An Institutional History in Pictures, an exhibition of more than forty-nine paintings that celebrates an important part of the Gallery's considerable permanent collection, which, for over one-hundred years , has come to define its identity and mission as an art museum. Boasting a permanent collection of nearly 13 ,000 objects , the Sheldon Art Gallery has sought to present the historical development and aesthetic diversity of 19th and 20th-century American art in various media.

But …

Making Sense Of The Senses: The Body, The Brain And Modern Art, Will South

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

I magine, as so many artists, musicians, writers, poets and dreamers have tried to do so many times in so many ways, a universal Ian - guage-one that could be understood by anyone in any place at any time. However implausible such a language may seem, however romantic, naIve, or flatly impossible, its creation in visual terms was a common pursuit of early modern painters, those working in the first decades of the 20th century. At the beginning of this new millennium, we may ask afresh if all these past imaginings and pursuits were but elegant and finely wrought pipe …

Making Sense Of The Senses: The Body The Brain And Modern Art, Will South

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

Imagine, as so many artists, musicians, writers, poets and dreamers have tried to do so many times in so many ways, a universal language-one that could be understood by anyone in any place at any time. However implausible such a language may seem, however romantic, naive, or flatly impossible, its creation in visual terms was a common pursuit of early modern painters, those working in the first decades of the 20th century. At the beginning of this new millennium, we may ask afresh if all these past imaginings and pursuits were but elegant and finely wrought pipe dreams, or if …

The Visual Culture Of: Prairie Schooner, Daniel A. Siedell

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden is pleased to present The Visual Culture of PRAIRIE SCHOONER, an exhibition of forty images from the pages of one of the more distinguished literary magazines in the country. Celebrating its seventy-fifth year of publication, the Prairie Schooner almost from the outset became a much sought after venue for the publication of poems, short fiction, criticism, and personal essays for many of the nation's important and soon-to-be important writers. This exhibition explores the role that visual imagery has played in this important and influential magazine. If, as Henry Rago asserts, "a …

The Stieglitz Circle, Nicole Crawford

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden is pleased to present The Stieglitz Circle, the fourteenth annual Sheldon Statewide exhibition. Sheldon Statewide is a unique collaboration between the Sheldon Gallery, the Nebraska Art Association (a nonprofit volunteer membership organization dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts in Nebraska) and the efforts and cooperation of the many Nebraska communities that serve as exhibition venues. The mission of the Sheldon Gallery is the acquisition, exhibition, and interpretation of 19th- and 20th-century American art. Each year twenty works from the collection are circulated throughout the state of Nebraska.

The 2000-2001 Sheldon …

Blanket Statements, Issue 67, Winter 2002

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 67, Winter 2002

Symmetry-Breaking In Oriental Carpets: The Case For Beauty, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

emerges from truth. Symmetry-breaking requires an expectation of symmetry. Often, symmetry-breaking is confused with asymmetry. But, rather, asymmetry is simply the absence of symmetry. For symmetry-breaking to exist, a pattern must first be stablished. Symmetry then is expected, but somehow that expectation is not met. There are many ways to effect symmetry-breaking in Oriental carpets. The study of Oriental carpets may lead one to suppose that in art, as in nature, it is in the approximation of symmetry, rather than in its precision, that beauty is to be found and appreciated. What is an Oriental Carpet? No one ever set …

A Calligrapher's Art: Inscribed Cotton Ikat From Yemen, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Yemen at the advent of Islam and in the ensuing centuries is a little known entity in our contemporary world. A thousand years ago when Baghdad was capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasid caliphs, Yemen was a flourishing center of agriculture and trade. By camel caravan north to central Islamic lands and in maritime trade with India to the east and Africa across the straits, Yemen's ports of call along the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden were emporia for textiles, dyestuffs, and incense.

While today Yemen predominantly imports textiles from abroad, in the early centuries after the …

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 13:1 – Winter 2001, Textile Society Of America

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Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 22 (2001), Virginia Gunn, Gloria Seaman Allen, Lynn A. Bonfield, Linda Welters, Margaret Ordoñez, Barbara J. Eikmeier, Laurel Horton, Yolanda Hood

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gunn

Research Papers

Slaves as Textile Artisans: Documentary Evidence for the Chesapeake Region by Gloria Seaman Allen

Quilts for Civil War Soldiers from Peacham, Vermont by Lynn A. Bonfield

Early Calico Printing in Rhode Island by Linda Welters and Margaret Ordoñez

A Style Emerges: Korean Culture in Contemporary Quilts by Barbara J. Eikmeier

The Quilts of the Chattahoochee Country Dancers by Laurel Horton

The Culture of Resistance: African American Art Quilts and Self-Defining by Yolanda Hood

In memoriam: Lucy Hattie Hilty (1917-2001), Berkeley, California

In memoriam: Natalie Sweetser Hart (December 14, 1940-March 27, 2001), Chester, New Jersey …

Blanket Statements, Issue 62, Fall 2000

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 62, Fall 2000

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 12:3 – Fall 2000, Textile Society Of America

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Learning to Weave in Ghana by Emilia Karr
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Members Honored
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Blanket Statements, Issue 61, Summer 2000

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 61, Summer 2000

Influence Of Nitrogen Gas And Oxygen Scavengers On Fading And Color Change In Dyed Textiles, Judy J. Brott Buss, Patricia Cox Crews

Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design: Faculty Publications

Unexpected and undesired color changes in paper materials following the use of anoxic treatments for killing insects that infest col­lections have been reported. This observation and attendant concerns prompted this research. This study examined the influence of a nitrogen gas purge and oxygen scavengers on color stability of dyed textiles in the presence and absence of light. Earlier studies showed that while most dyed tex­tiles exhibit less fading and color change when oxygen is removed from the atmosphere via a nitrogen purge, a small number of dyes exhibit greater amounts of fading and color change in the presence of a …

University-Wide Departmental Teaching Award, Department Of Textiles, Clothing, & Design, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln

Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design: Department Information

This award is intended to recognize an academic department within the Universityof Nebraska for an outstanding record of accomplishment in its teaching program. The award carries a $25,000 grant to the department. It was created in 1992 to emphasize the importance of quality instruction throughout the university. The selection committee for the award is composed of senior faculty members representing all four campuses of the University of Nebraska. Criteria used in the selection process include: how the department uses incentives to encourage teaching excellence; faculty participation in professional conferences on instruction; research and publications by faculty members related to instructional …

Blanket Statements, Issue 60, Spring 2000

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 60, Spring 2000

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 12:1 – Spring 2000, Textile Society Of America

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Review Of Islamische Textilkunst Des Mittelalters: Aktuelle Problemne, Edited By Karel Otavsky., Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Islamische Textilkunst des Mittelalters: Aktuelle Problemne. Edited by KAREL OTAVSKY. Riggisberger Berichte 5. Riggisberg, Switzerland: Abegg-Stiftung, 1997. Pp. 219 + 214 figs.

Focusing on textiles of Egypt and North Africa in the Fatimid period (A.D. 909-1171), this volume presents the edited proceedings of a scholarly conference on medieval Islamic textiles held at the Abegg-Stiftung in Riggisberg, Switzerland, 10-11 November 1995. Eighteen papers (published in English, French, or German) by fourteen authors are organized in three sections that deal with the functions, inscriptions, and weaving techniques, followed by a bibliography of references cited, a list of illustrations, and the authors' …

"Gabba" In Encyclopædia Iranica, Jean-Pierre Digard, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

GABBA (gava in Kurdish and Lori, Īzadpanāh, s.v.; ḵersak in Baḵtīārī, Digard, pp. 128-31), a hand-woven pile rug of coarse quality and medium size (90 x 150 cm or larger) characterized by an abstract design that relies upon open fields of color and a playfulness with geometry. This kind of rug is common among the tribes of the Zagros (Kurdish, Lori-speaking ethnic groups, Qašqāʾīs). The first known reference to gabba is found in a farmān by Shah Ṭahmāsp (r. 930-84/1524-76) dating to the middle of the 16th century (Opie, 1992, p. 124). Gabbas were said to have originated in …

Choices And Constraints: Pattern Formation In Oriental Carpets, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Patterns in nature result from dynamic relationships of forces and constraints. What is analogous for patterns in art? Art is created by human hands motivated by inspiration and thought. It is the product of creativity and skill. Creativity is constrained by cognitive processes and skill by the limits of technology. Based upon the author’s studies of Oriental carpets, this paper suggests that patterns in art result from dynamic relationships of choices and constraints. Typically, traditional Oriental carpets from historical rug-weaving regions of the world exhibit a multiplicity of patterns—field patterns and border patterns that express a vast array of designs …

Blanket Statements, Issue 63, Winter 2001

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 63, Winter 2001