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Textiles as Primary Sources

1988 Proceedings:
Textiles as Primary Sources
(OUT-OF-PRINT)

First Biennial Symposium, September 16-18, 1988. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Textiles as Primary Sources: Strategies and Methodologies for Gathering and Extracting Data

  • Keynote Address: Wringing It Dry: Challenges of Prehistoric Textiles. - Elizabeth Barber
  • The Validity of Studies of Pattern and Structure: Case Histories. - Milton Sonday
  • The University of Maryland Historic Textile Data Base. - Clarita Anderson
  • Creating a Protocol for Reconstructing Weaving Technologies: Early Compound Non-Silk Fabrics Found in Egypt. - M.M. El-Homossani
  • Analysis of Pattern Structure by Geometric Symmetries. - Dorothy K. Washburn

Textiles as Primary Sources: Textiles as Cultural Signatures

  • Keynote Address: Transmutations of the Tartan: Attributed Meanings to Textile Design. - Richard Martin
  • Theme and Variations: Creative Improvisation in African Textiles. (abstract) - Peggy S. Gilfoy
  • A French 'Kashmir' Shawl in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum. - Arlene Cooper
  • The Kings as Gods: Textiles in the Thai State. - H. Leedom Lefferts Jr.
  • Designing Among the Navajo: Ethnoaesthetics in Weaving. - Ann Lane Hedlund
  • Cognitive Cloths: The Indigenous Classification of Batak Textiles. - Sandra A. Niessen

Brief Reports / Research-in-Progress

  • Textiles as Primary Sources in the Study of 'Boundary Art': Hispanic Textiles of Northern New Mexico. - Suzanne Baizerman
  • Piecing in Twill Tapestry Shawls of Persia and Kashmir. - Grace C. Beardsley
  • The Mexican Jaspe (Ikat) Rebozo: Comments on its History, Significance and Prevalence. - Virginia Davis
  • Crepe. - Lillian Elliott
  • Schumacher & Company Textiles. - Lynn Felsher
  • Colonial Ecuadorian Yndias and Their Textiles. (abstract) - Blenda Femenias
  • Manila Galleon Trade Textiles: Cross-Cultural Influences on New World Dress. - Abby Sue Fisher
  • Orientation and Symmetry: The Structuring of Pattern Repeats in the Paracas Necropolis Embroideries. - Mary Frame
  • 'Little Trifles': Understanding Victorian Fancywork. - Beverley Gordon
  • A World of Costume and Textiles: A Handbook to the Collections at the Rhode Island School of Design (abstract). - Susan Anderson Hay
  • Techniques and Production Complexity of Mississippian Period Textiles from Spiro, Oklahoma. - Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff
  • Traditional Textiles in Cultural Contexts: International Research and Video Documentation. - Louise W. Mackie, Lotus Stack and Frieda Sorber
  • Goddess Imagery in Greek Folk Costume. - Linda Welters and Linda Tepfenhart
  • Feltmaking. - Carol D. Westfall
  • The Cornett Family Quilts. (abstract) - Laurel Elizabeth Wilson

 

     
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