Traditional Textiles of the Andes: Life and Cloth in the Highlands

Rodman, Amy Oakland; Franquemont, Ed; Arthur, Barbara; Schevill, Margot Blum

ISBN 10: 0500279853 / ISBN 13: 9780500279854

Editore: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1997

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156pp. 147 colour and 23 b&w photographs. Codice articolo 28725

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Titolo: Traditional Textiles of the Andes: Life and ...

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Data di pubblicazione: 1997

Legatura: Soft cover

Condizione: As New

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The Andean Mountains are home to a rich heritage of textile design and weaving. In particular, cloth has traditionally been the most significant art form and cultural vehicle of the Aymara and Quechua peoples. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this book features eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century indigenous textiles woven by the Aymara and Quechua. The elaborately patterned pieces are all drawn from the previously unpublished Jeffrey Appleby Collection and include everyday and ceremonial textiles of all types: ponchos, skirts, belts, hats, and slings. The accompanying essays by Lynn Ann Meisch, Amy Oakland Rodman, Ed Franquemont, and Margot Blum Schevill address such topics as the long history of fibers, dyes, imagery, and textile use in the region; and the effects of urbanization and westernization on traditional Andean weaving.

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