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Advanced textiles for health and well-being
An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the latest developments in high-tech textiles.
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Creating a nation with cloth
Tongan women living outside of their island homeland create and use hand-made, sometimes hybridized, textiles to maintain and rework their cultural traditions in diaspora. Central to these traditions is an ancient concept of homeland or nation-fonua-which Tongans retain as an anchor for modern nation-building. Utilizing the concept of the \"multi-territorial nation,\" the author questions the notion that living in diaspora is mutually exclusive with authentic cultural production and identity. The globalized nation the women build through gifting their barkcloth and fine mats, challenges the normative idea that nations are always geographically bounded or spatially contiguous. The work suggests that, contrary to prevalent understandings of globalization, global resource flows do not always primarily involve commodities. Focusing on first-generation Tongans in New Zealand and the relationships they forge across generations and throughout the diaspora, the book examines how these communities centralize the diaspora by innovating and adapting traditional cultural forms in unprecedented ways.
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Maguey Journey
The name maguey refers to various forms of the agave and furcraea genus, also sometimes called the century plant. The fibers extracted from the leaves of these plants are spun into fine cordage and worked with a variety of tools and techniques to create textiles, from net bags and hammocks to equestrian gear.In this fascinating book, Kathryn Rousso, an accomplished textile artist, takes a detailed look at the state of maguey culture, use, and trade in Guatemala. She has spent years traveling in Guatemala, highlighting maguey workers' interactions in many locations and blending historical and current facts to describe their environments. Along the way, Rousso has learned the process of turning a raw leaf into beautiful and useful textile products and how globalization and modernization are transforming the maguey trade in Guatemala.Featuring a section of full-color illustrations that follow the process from plant to weaving to product, Maguey Journey presents the story of this fiber over recent decades through the travels of an impassioned artist. Useful to cultural anthropologists, ethnobotanists, fiber artists, and interested travelers alike, this book offers a snapshot of how the industry stands now and seeks to honor those who keep the art alive in Guatemala.
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Textile visionaries : innovation and sustainability in textile design
Technologized textiles and sustainable fabrics are among the most innovative designed today, and together they are driving the rest of the industry dramatically forward. Many designers are now integrating hi-tech fabrics, such as protective and impact-resistant textiles, or cellulose fabrics, with groundbreaking results. Embracing new processes such as biomimicry, they bridge the gap between art, design, technology, and sustainability more than any other material. This book shows how the development of fabrics today is immersed in technology, sustainability, and innovation.
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The Valkyries’ Loom
In The Valkyries' Loom , Michèle Hayeur Smith examines
Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in
the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North
Atlantic in the ninth century AD. While previous researchers have
overlooked textiles as insignificant artifacts, Hayeur Smith is the
first to use them to understand gender and economy in Norse
societies of the North Atlantic.
This groundbreaking study is based on the author's systematic
comparative analysis of the vast textile collections in Iceland,
Greenland, Denmark, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands, materials that
are largely unknown even to archaeologists and span 1,000 years.
Through these garments and fragments, Hayeur Smith provides new
insights into how the women of these island nations influenced
international trade by producing cloth ( vaðmál ); how they
shaped the development of national identities by creating clothing;
and how they helped their communities survive climate change by
reengineering clothes during the Little Ice Age. She supplements
her analysis by revealing societal attitudes about weaving through
the poem \"Darraðarljoð\" from Njál's Saga , in which the
Valkyries-Óðin's female warrior spirits-produce the cloth of
history and decide the fates of men and nations.
Bringing Norse women and their labor to the forefront of
research, Hayeur Smith establishes the foundation for a gendered
archaeology of the North Atlantic that has never been attempted
before. This monumental and innovative work contributes to global
discussions about the hidden roles of women in past societies in
preserving tradition and guiding change.
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Textiles in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
This book brings together our present-day knowledge about textile terminology in the Akkadian language of the first-millennium BC. In fact, the progress in the study of the Assyrian dialect and its grammar and lexicon has shown the increasing importance of studying the language as well as cataloging and analysing the terminology of material culture in the documentation of the first world empire. The book analyses the terms for raw materials, textile procedures, and textile end products consumed in first-millennium BC Assyria. In addition, a new edition of a number of written records from Neo-Assyrian administrative archives completes the work. The book also contains a number of tables, a glossary with all the discussed terms, and a catalogue of illustrations. In light of the recent development of textile research in ancient languages, the book is aimed at providing scholars of Ancient Near Eastern studies and ancient textile studies with a comprehensive work on the Assyrian textiles.
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