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Author : China National Silk Museum,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231005398
Author : Susan Meller
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781683355571
The traditional textiles of Central Asia are unknown treasures. Straddling the legendary Silk Road, this vast region stretches from Russia in the west to China in the east. Whether nomadic or sedentary, its peoples created textiles for every aspect of their way of life, from ceremonial objects marking rites of passage, to everyday garments, to practical items for the home. There were suzanis for the marriage bed; prayer mats; patchwork quilts; bridal ensembles; bags for tea, scissors, and mirrors; lovingly embroidered hats and bibs; and robes of every color and pattern. Author Susan Meller has spent years assembling the 590 textiles illustrated in this book. She documents their history, use, and meaning through archival photographs and fascinating travelers’ narratives spanning many centuries. Her book will be a revelation to designers, collectors, students of Central Asia, and travelers to the region. Silk and Cotton is destined to become a classic.
Author : Kym Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521392785
The changing patterns of production and trade in fibres, textiles and clothing provide a classic case study of the dynamics of our interdependent world economy. For centuries Asia supplied the textile factories of Europe with natural fibres, including silk from East Asia exports virtually no natural fibres and instead is the world's most important exporter of manufactured textile products and chief importer of fibres. New Silk Roads, first published in 1992, demonstrates that despite the import barriers erected by advanced economies, textiles and clothing production continues to serve as an engine of growth for developing economies seeking to export their way out of poverty. This book is based on selected papers given at a conference which discussed East Asia's role in world fibre, textile and clothing markets. It draws on trade and development theory as well as on historical evidence to trace the development of these changing markets, which are now dominated by the newly industrialized economies of Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong and, increasingly, China and Thailand.
Author : Berit Hildebrandt
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785702808
"Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinents along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa were glass, wine, spices, metals like iron, precious stones as well as textile raw materials and fabrics and silk, a luxury item that was in great demand in the Roman Empire. These collected papers connect research from different areas and disciplines dealing with exchange along the Silk Roads. These historical, philological and archaeological contributions highlight silk as a commodity, gift and tribute, and as a status symbol in varying cultural and chronological contexts between East and West, including technological aspects of silk production. The main period concerns Rome and China in antiquity, ending in the late fifth century CE, with the Roman Empire being transformed into the Byzantine Empire, while the Chinese chronology covers the Han dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Western and Eastern Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms, ending in 420 CE. In addition, both earlier and later epochs are also considered in order to gather an understanding of developments and changes in long-distance and longer-term relations that involved silk."
Author : Berit Hildebrandt
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789255511
Collected papers presenting latest multi-disciplinary approaches to the manufacture, trade in and status of silk and other textiles between Rome and China along the Silk Roads.
Author : Marie-Louise Nosch,Feng Zhao,Lotika Varadarajan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 1782977376
Author : Polski Instytut Studiów nad Sztuką Świata (Varsovie, Pologne).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8365480239
Author : Feng Zhao
Publisher : Royal Collins Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 198782170X
This is a monograph that gives a deep interpretation of the silk culture in ancient times and described the historical evolution of the clothes--basic elements of daily life, which all together displays the beauty of silk and the Silk Road.
Author : James C. Y. Watt,Anne E. Wardwell,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39076001848923
The demise of the Silk Roads and the end of expansionist policies, together with the rapid increase in maritime trade, brought to an end the vital economic and cultural interchange that had characterized the years preceding the death of the Ming-dynasty Yongle emperor in 1424. Overland, intrepid merchants no longer transported silks throughout Eurasia and weavers no longer traveled to distant lands. But the products that survive from that wondrous time attest to a glorious era - when silk was resplendent as gold.
Author : Mariachiara Gasparini
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824877989
In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Through the analysis of the Turfan Textile Collection in the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin and more than a thousand textiles held in collections worldwide, Gasparini discloses and reconstructs the rich cultural entanglements along the Silk Road, between the coming of Islam and the rise of the Mongol Empire, from the Tarim to Mediterranean Basin. Exploring in detail the iconographic transfer between different agents and different media from Central Asian caves to South Italian churches, the author depicts and describes the movement and exchange of portable objects such as sculpture, wall painting, and silk fragments across the Asian continent and across the ages. Gasparini’s history offers critical perspectives that extend far beyond an outmoded notion of “Silk Road studies.” Her cross-media work shows readers how certain material cultures are connected not only by the physical routes they take but also because of the meanings and interpretations these objects engage in various places. Transcending Patterns is at once art history, material and visual cultural history, Asian studies, conservatory studies, and linguistics.
Author : Verity Wilson
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015062560134
Every Chinese textile tells a story, and this book tells many stories of Chinese life and legend through the sumptuous textiles that adorn its pages. Breathtaking in workmanship, colour and design, they were made for a purpose, and it is those created for celebrations that dominate the selection in this book. As well as dealing with technique and influence, Wilson tells the story of each piece - why it was made and for whom - and introduces us to a galaxy of characters from China's history and legend. The superb photography allows us to see how richly these textiles reflect the culture from which they come.
Author : BuYun Chen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295745312
Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors of a modern fashion system: a new consciousness of time, a game of imitation and emulation, and a shift in modes of production. This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources—paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts—and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/empire-of-style
Author : Kym Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Clothing trade
ISBN : UCSD:31822008038655
Author : Robyn J. Maxwell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015019313827
Created from an extensive range of locally produced and imported raw materials, and designed using an astonishing number of techniques--including different types of appliqué, decorative weaving, tie-dying, batik, and embroidery--Southeast Asian textiles are used to fashion an extraordinary variety of objects, ranging from everyday clothing to sacred and ceremonial costumes. This authoritative study focuses on the interplay between indigenous Southeast Asian traditions and the external cultural forces that have been a crucial part of the historical development and changing nature of the region's textile traditions. Maxwell considers the various ways Southeast Asian textile artisans reacted to the new ideas and raw materials from outside regions. The social, cultural, and religious dimensions of this art, the factors that condition how people create textiles, the way these are used, and the meaning of motifs and symbol are explored in detail. Including examples of textiles--some in categories that have never before been published--this reference work is a valuable contribution to the field of ethnographic textiles.
Author : Pedro Machado,Sarah Fee,Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319582658
This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites—from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as India) to provide a fresh, expansive perspective of the ocean as an “interaction-based arena,” with an internal dynamism and historical coherence forged by material exchange and human relationships. Contributors map shifting social, cultural and commercial circuits to chart the many histories of cloth across the region. They also trace these histories up to the present with discussions of contemporary trade in Dubai, Zanzibar, and Eritrea. Richly illustrated, this collection brings together new and diverse strands in the long story of textiles in the Indian Ocean, past and present.