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African Textiles: Colour and Creativity Across a Continent - Softcover

Gillow, John

 
9780500292211: African Textiles: Colour and Creativity Across a Continent
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500292213 ISBN 13: 9780500292211
Verlag: Thames & Hudson, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Now available in a compact paperback edition, this book remains the most comprehensive survey of African textiles on the market today, illustrating in over 570 spectacular colour photographs the traditional, handcrafted, indigenous textiles of the whole continent. Covering, region by region, the handmade textiles of West, North, East, Central and Southern Africa, African Textiles outlines the vast array of techniques used as well as the different types of loom, materials and dyes that help to create these sumptuous textiles. With a useful glossary and map, a guide to collections open to the public, and suggestions for further reading, this book provides a wealth of information on the rich art of African textiles.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Gillow has spent over thirty years studying, collecting and lecturing on textiles. His books include Arts and Crafts of India (with Ilay Cooper and Barry Dawson), Indian Textiles (with Nicholas Barnard), Traditional Indonesian Textiles, World Textiles (with Bryan Sentance) and African Textiles.

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An encyclopaedic, continentwide survey of the textile traditions of Africa.

Now available in a compact paperback edition, this book remains the most comprehensive survey of African textiles on the market today, illustrating in over 570 spectacular colour photographs the traditional, handcrafted, indigenous textiles of the whole continent. Covering, region by region, the handmade textiles of West, North, East, Central and Southern Africa, African Textiles outlines the vast array of techniques used as well as the different types of loom, materials and dyes that help to create these sumptuous textiles. With a useful glossary and map, a guide to collections open to the public, and suggestions for further reading, this book provides a wealth of information on the rich art of African textiles.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500292213
ISBN 13 
9780500292211
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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