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Mexican Textiles

Door Chloe Sayer

Categorie	Tapijten & Textiel
Boeknummer	#326848-AC23
Titel	Mexican Textiles
Auteur	Sayer, Chloe
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : British Museum Press
Jaar van uitgave	1990
ISBN10	0714125016
ISBN13	9780714125015
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illusrations (partly in colour), 4to.
Samenvatting	Contents include Costume before the conquest; Post conquest heritage; Twenteith century Mexico; with three appendices: Backstrap loom; Weaving techniques, Embroidery stitches. From the book jacket: The textiles and clothing of Mexico have a richness and vigour that is unsurpassed elsewhere in the Americas. Although four and a half centuries have elapsed since the Spanish Conquest, there are more than fifty different Indian peoples still living in Mexico who have preserved their own distinctive costumes. In remote areas the ancient arts of spinning, dyeing and weaving are practised much as they were before the Conquest, while elsewhere the influence of the Colonial period has contributed additional inspiration: wool, the treadle loom, a greater emphasis on embroidery and the introduction ... (Lees verder)of foreign design motifs were all adapted to existing native patterns and styles and gradually evolved to suit Indian tastes. The author traces the development of Mexican textile arts, examines the social and even magical role played by clothing in many villages, and documents the inventiveness and elegance of Indian dress, both past and present. Her text is illustrated with numerous explanatory diagrams showing weaving techniques and embroidery stitches, as well as a wide selection of photographs of Indians in their everyday dress and in costume for more formal occasions.
Pagina's	240
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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