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Blanket Statements, Issue 74, Fall 2003

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 74, Fall 2003

Blanket Statements, Issue 73, Summer 2003

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 73, Summer 2003

Blanket Statements, Issue 72, Spring 2003

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 72, Spring 2003

Mamluk Rugs From Egypt: Jewels Of The Textile Museum's Collection (Exhibition), Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Mamluk rugs are considered by many to be among the most beautiful of any rugs ever created. The brilliant reds, greens, and blues (figs. 1 and 2) are reminiscent of rubies, emeralds and sapphires; whether this was an intentional evocation is not known. But The Textile Museum's holdings of Mamluk rugs, unparalleled in the world, are truly the "jewels" of the collection. Simply by virtue of the fact that they date from the late 15th century, Mamluk rugs comprise one of the most significant groups of classical carpets. Their lustrous wool and wondrous color, as well as their geometric designs …

Carpets Of Andalusia (Exhibition), Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

The fall of Granada in 1492 reestablished Christian dominion in Spain after centuries of Islamic rule. The rapid expansion of Islam from Arabia in the 7th century encompassed the rich cultural legacy of the Late Antique world, forging a unified empire throughout the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean lands and across North Africa to Spain within a short span of several decades. Arab and Berber armies had crossed into Spain in 711, generating at once an effort that lasted for many generations to restore Christian rule. In Islamic times, the Iberian peninsula was called al-Andalus, or Andalusia. Although we have …

Blanket Statements, Issue 75, Winter 2004

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 75, Winter 2004

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 24 (2003), Virginia Gunn, Heather Ersts Venters, Mary Bywater Cross, Sarah Rose Dangelas, Carolyn K. Ducey, Mary Ellen Ducey, Marin F. Hanson, Janneken Smucker, Blaire O. Gagnon

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Virginia Gun

Eighteenth-Century Annapolis Quilters: "She performs all sorts of QUILTING in the best Manner" by Heather Ersts Venters

The Anti-Polygamy Quilt by The Ogden Methodist Quilting Bee by Mary Bywater Cross

The Cultural Significance of the Block Island Woman's Christian Temperance Union Quilt of 1931 by Sarah Rose Dangelas

Quilt Symposium '77: "Fine Art-Folk Art" at Lincoln, Nebraska by Carolyn Ducey and Mary Ellen Ducey

Quilts as Manifestations of Cross-Cultural Contact: East-West and Amish-"English" Examples by Marin F. Hanson and Janneken Smucker

Egyptian Appliques by Blaire O. Gagnon

Authors and Editor

Index

Blanket Statements, Issue 70, Fall 2002

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 70, Fall 2002

Blanket Statements, Issue 69, Summer 2002

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 69, Summer 2002

Blanket Statements, Issue 68, Spring 2002

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 68, Spring 2002

Geometric Patterns And The Interpretation Of Meaning: Two Monuments In Iran, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

The Alhambra has often served in the West as the paradigm for understanding geometric pattern in Islamic art. Constructed in Spain in the 13th century as a highly defended palace, it is a relatively late manifestation of an Islamic fascination with geometric pattern. Numerous earlier Islamic buildings, from Spain to India, exhibit extensive geometric patterning, which substantiate a mathematical interest in the spatial dimension and its manifold potential for meaning. This paper examines two monuments on the Iranian plateau, dating from the 11 th century of our era, in which more than one hundred exterior surface areas have received patterns …

Introduction To Doris Duke's Shangri La By Sharon Littlefield, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

SHANGRI LA, the most intimate of Doris Duke's residences, is the one that today offers the best view into the private domain of a public celebrity. What it reveals about Doris Duke presents a strong contrast to her well-publicized persona as a tobacco heiress, born to wealth, who liked to frolic. Observe the house, spilling down terraces of Ka'alawai toward the sea; contemplate its well-considered vistas and its polished black lava, white marble, and coral limestone surfaces. Admire the architectural features shipped from abroad and installed on site; experience the gardens with their towering trees, sparkling water chutes, and placid …

Blanket Statements, Issue 71, Winter 2003

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 71, Winter 2003

Review Of Stillman, Arab Dress: A Short History, From The Dawn Of Islam To Modem Times., Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Arab Dress: A Short History, From the Dawn of Islam to Modem Times. By YADIDA KALFON STILLMAN. Edited by NORMAN A. STILLMAN. Themes in Islamic Studies, vol. 2. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. xxxii + 240, plates, figs.

Billowing folds, exquisite pleats, tightly wound turbans, flowing burqas, short square kerchiefs-the dramatic drapery of Islamic fashion fills the quiet spaces of our daily news coverage; yet the garments illustrated and their significance often pass without verbal notice. Little would Yedida Stillman ever have anticipated the widespread presence of the Islamic vestimentary system in Western media a short three years after her death …

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

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Index

Blanket Statements, Issue 66, Fall 2001

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 66, Fall 2001

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

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 …

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

Blanket Statements, Issue 61, Summer 2000

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 61, Summer 2000

Blanket Statements, Issue 60, Spring 2000

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 60, Spring 2000

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

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 …