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The Conversion Of Chinese Court Robes Into Japanese Festival Hangings, Gloria Granz Gonick

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Decorated silken robes historically worn in China to garb the emperor and his family were disassembled and resewn in Japan into hangings for Kyoto's Gion Festival during the 16th to 18th centuries. The twenty robes, which were converted into coverings for festival carts called yama and hoko, include silk tapestry weaves (kesi), brocades, and embroidered examples. Eleven date from the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and nine from the early to mid Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). This distribution contrasts with other world collections of Chinese imperial robes, in which Qing Dynasty examples are far more numerous. In addition to the …

Raphael’S Acts Of The Apostles Tapestries: The Birth Of The Tapestry Reproduction System, Marjorie Durko Puryear

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

As a younger fiber artist at the beginning of my teaching career, I rarely found European tapestries of the 16th through 18th centuries to be more than copies of paintings in a woven mask. The weaver's hand and spirit were only apparent in finite details which were resplendent with meticulous hatching, shading, and delicate slit work, unchanged from the Medieval past. But it was against my art school training to separate art concept from process. I wasn't ready to accept that the weavers were not the artists, and that tapestry was in fact an industry.

More recently, my point of …

Ottoman Silks And Their Legacy, Diane Mott

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

During the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, luxury silks of Asia that had for centuries trickled into Europe began to enter in large numbers, fueling an appetite for the rich and exotic that was to have a lasting effect on Western textile design. In turn, expanded trade with the Levant carried Western designs and advances in weaving eastward. The Ottoman Empire, standing at the thresholds of Europe and Asia, was perfectly poised to transmit these East-West currents. Weavers in manufactories in the successive Ottoman capitals of Bursa and Istanbul, the western outposts of the Asiatic silk routes, absorbed …

Charmingly Quaint And Still Modern: The Paradox Of Colonial Revival Needlework In America, 1875–1940, Beverly Gordon

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Despite the self-conscious modernism of the early 20th century, American needlework was filled with images of flower baskets, cozy cottages, spinning wheels, and women in hoopskirts. It was dominated by seemingly old-fashioned and "quaint" techniques, such as cross stitch, patchwork, crewel, and rug hooking. In an era with teeming cities, radio, and cars pouring off the assembly line, needlework came to stand for a romanticized, seemingly simpler and nobler American past. And in an era when women were winning the vote and re-entering the professional work force, needleworkers, in turn, became identified with the domestic homebody of the past. In …

Ancient Andean Headgear: Medium And Measure Of Cultural Identity, Niki R. Clark, Amy Oakland Rodman

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

From the earliest recorded periods of southern Andean history, distinctive clothing styles have served to identity specific socio-cultural groups and provide clues about cultural origins. Unique environmental conditions, especially present along the arid Pacific coast of South America, have allowed the preservation of a vast archive of usually perishable material. From the far south coast of Peru to the northern desert regions of Chile, textiles, and especially headgear forms were worn to distinguish between the diverse populations who established permanent settlements along the narrow river valleys linking highland regions and the coast.

The south central Andes region has always known …

(Re-)Fashioning Identity: Late Twentieth-Century Transformations In Dress And Society In Boliva, Elayne Zorn

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The members of most of Bolivia's large indigenous ethnic groups, such as the nearly 22,000 people of ayllu Sakaka of northern Potosi, continue to wear a distinctive daily dress. Such dress nationally and internationally is emblematic of the Sakaka's separate, and to many inferior, identity as Indians. To the wearers also, or perhaps fundamentally, such dress marks a division between clothed indigenous humans (runa) and naked foreign outsiders (q'ara). This interpretation coincides with hegemonic non-Indian evaluations of Indian separateness, but reverses the hierarchy.

Yet most members of these large indigenous ethnic groups, whom I refer to …

Contact, Crossover, Continuity: Proceedings Of The Fourth Biennial Symposium Of The Textile Society Of America (1994) [Entire]

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Preface 7

Contact, Crossover, Continuity: Fiber and Garment

Featured Paper: Ancient Near Eastern Fibers and the Reshaping of European Clothing Elizabeth J. W. Barber 9

Wreath and Cap to Veil and Apron: American Modification of a Slavic Ritual Patricia Williams 19

Panel: Textile Transformations and Cultural Continuities in West Africa

Akwete-Igbo Weavers as Entrepreneurs and Innovators at the Turn of the Century Lisa Aronson 31

What’s in a Name: The Domestication of Factory Produced Wax Textiles in Cote d’Ivoire Kathleen E. Bickford 39

Technology and Change: The Incorporation of Synthetic Dye Techniques in Abeokuta, Southwestern Nigeria Judith Byfield 45

The …

Buffalo, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Buffalo; This Ain't Kansas

Back Text: This Ain't Kansas

Description: White shirt with black and rainbow lettering; image of a box rainbow

December 1993, Buffalo Belles

Buffalo Belles Newsletters

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November 1993, Buffalo Belles

Buffalo Belles Newsletters

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October 1993, Buffalo Belles

Buffalo Belles Newsletters

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September 1993, Buffalo Belles

Buffalo Belles Newsletters

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August 1993, Buffalo Belles

Buffalo Belles Newsletters

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Aids Awareness Week, Aids Alliance Of Western New York

Event Flyers and Pamphlets

Advertisement promoting AIDS Awareness Week

Scavenger Hunt, Aids Alliance Of Western New York

Event Flyers and Pamphlets

Advertisement and registration form for the 1st Annual Buffalo Scavenger Hunt. The event was part of AIDS Awareness Week 1993.

July 1993, Buffalo Belles

Buffalo Belles Newsletters

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June 1993, Buffalo Belles

Buffalo Belles Newsletters

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Louise Lincoln's Review Of Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin's Leben In Linie, Muster Und Farbe: Einführung In Die Betrachtung Aussereuropäischer Kunst (Life In Line, Pattern, And Color: An Introduction To The Study Of Non-European Art), Louise Lincoln

Pacific Studies

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Louise Lincoln's Review Of Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin's Leben In Linie, Muster Und Farbe: Einführung In Die Betrachtung Aussereuropäischer Kunst (Life In Line, Pattern, And Color: An Introduction To The Study Of Non-European Art), Louise Lincoln

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Tappeti Safavidi: L'Evoluzione Storica E Culturale Dell'arte Tessile Iraniana Dal Xvi Al Xviii Secolo, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

In Iran l'epoca safavide coincide con il periodo aureo dell'arte tessile: proprio nel XVI secolo infatti si completò l'evoluzione stilistica del tappeto persiano classico e la tessitura di sete e velluti giunse ai massimi livelli per tecnica e per decorazioni.

Nelle fasi successive della storia persiana nei tessuti e nei tappeti continuarono a vivere le straordinarie innovazioni dell'epoca safavide, tuttora insuperate.Nella storia l'Iran è stato uno dei più importanti paesi produttori di tessili.

In epoca medievale le sontuose sete ed i tappeti erano ricercati dalle case regnanti e dalla nobiltà europea per la qualità eccellente e per la bellezza fuori …

Flyer For Dykes Do Drag, Buffalo's March On Washington Committee

Flyers/Programs from WNY Local Events

Flyer for Dykes do Drag, April 1993.

Playbill For A Benefit Concert For Buffalo's Committee For The National March On Washington D.C. & The City Of Good Neighbors March On Washington Fund, Buffalo's Committee For The National March On Washington D.C.

Flyers/Programs from WNY Local Events

Playbill for A Benefit Concert for Buffalo's Committee for the National March on Washington D.C. & The City of Good Neighbors March on Washington Fund.

Falcons And Flowers: Safavid Persian Textile Arts, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

The Safavid period in Iran was a golden age for textile arts. It was in the 16th century that the Classical Persian carpet evolved to its fully developed form, and it was then that woven silks and velvets reached the highest technical and aesthetic standards of all time. In subsequent periods of Persian history, textiles and carpets reflect the extraordinary achievements of the Safavid era which have never been surpassed.

Under the reign of Shah Abbas I, who reigned from 1588 to 1629, Iran established important economic ties not only with the rapidly emerging European powers, but with the Mughal …

Handout For The 1993 March On Washington For Lesbian Gay And Bisexual Equal Rights And Liberation, March On Washington

Flyers/Programs from WNY Local Events

Handout with information on how Buffalonians could participate in the1993 March on Washington for Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Equal Rights and Liberation.

Dykes Do Drag, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Dykes Do Drag; Friday April 2; 1993

Back Text: n/a

Description: Purple shirt with blue and pink lettering; imaged of a high heel and statue of liberty

March On Washington, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: The 1993 March on Washington; for lesbian; gay and bi equal rights and liberation; April 25

Back Text: n/a

Description: White shirt with green lettering; pink triangle with image of Washington D.C.; pin with same image attached

March On Washington, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: The 1993 March on Washington; for lesbian; gay and bi equal rights and liberation; April 25

Back Text: n/a

Description: Black shirt with white lettering; purple triangle with image of Washington D.C.

March On Washington, With Pin, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: The 1993 March on Washington; for lesbian; gay and bi equal rights and liberation; April 25

Back Text: n/a

Description: White shirt with green lettering; pink triangle with image of Washington D.C.; pin with same image attached

What Is An Oriental Carpet?, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Have you ever just stared at an Oriental carpet? Have you ever wondered what makes it so attractive, fascinating, or puzzling? Have you admired its simplicity or its intricacy? Have you ever wondered where it came from? Or, how it was made?

What is an Oriental Carpet? attempts to answer some of these questions. Conceived in response to visitors' requests for more basic information about textiles, this educational approach encourages the viewer to participate in an exploration of Oriental carpets.

Although the terms carpet and rug are often interchanged, here a carpet is defined as a fairly large pile-weaving intended …

January 1993, Buffalo Belles

Buffalo Belles Newsletters

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