Handweaver and Craftsman

Handweaver and Craftsman
Title Handweaver and Craftsman PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 52
Release 1975
Genre Hand weaving
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Handweaver & craftsman

Handweaver & craftsman
Title Handweaver & craftsman PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 562
Release 1953
Genre Handicraft
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Macrame

Macrame
Title Macrame PDF eBook
Author Virginia I. Harvey
Publisher Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Pages 132
Release 1967
Genre Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN 9780442231910

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The Politics of Vietnamese Craft

The Politics of Vietnamese Craft
Title The Politics of Vietnamese Craft PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Way
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 249
Release 2019-10-03
Genre Design
ISBN 135000703X

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Jennifer Way's study The Politics of Vietnamese Craft uncovers a little-known chapter in the history of American cultural diplomacy, in which Vietnamese craft production was encouraged and shaped by the US State Department as an object for consumption by middle class America. Way explores how American business and commerce, department stores, the art world and national museums variously guided the marketing and meanings of Vietnamese craft in order to advance American diplomatic and domestic interests. Conversely, American uses of Vietnamese craft provide an example of how the United States aimed to absorb post-colonial South Vietnam into the 'Free World', in a Cold War context of American anxiety about communism spreading throughout Southeast Asia. Way focuses in particular on the part played by the renowned American designer Russel Wright, contracted by the US International Cooperation Administration's aid programs for South Vietnam to survey the craft industry in South Vietnam and manage its production, distribution and consumption abroad and at home. Way shows how Wright and his staff brought American ideas about Vietnamese history and culture to bear in managing the making of Vietnamese craft.

On Weaving

On Weaving
Title On Weaving PDF eBook
Author Anni Albers
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 273
Release 2017-10-24
Genre Art
ISBN 1400889049

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The classic book on the art and history of weaving—now expanded and in full color Written by one of the twentieth century’s leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design. First published in 1965, On Weaving bridges the transition between handcraft and the machine-made, highlighting the essential importance of material awareness and the creative leaps that can occur when design problems are tackled by hand. With her focus on materials and handlooms, Anni Albers discusses how technology and mass production place limits on creativity and problem solving, and makes the case for a renewed embrace of human ingenuity that is particularly important today. Her lucid and engaging prose is illustrated with a wealth of rare and extraordinary images showing the history of the medium, from hand-drawn diagrams and close-ups of pre-Columbian textiles to material studies with corn, paper, and the typewriter, as well as illuminating examples of her own work. Now available for a new generation of readers, this expanded edition of On Weaving updates the book’s original black-and-white illustrations with full-color photos, and features an afterword by Nicholas Fox Weber and essays by Manuel Cirauqui and T’ai Smith that shed critical light on Albers and her career.

Weaving a Life

Weaving a Life
Title Weaving a Life PDF eBook
Author Mary Meigs Atwater
Publisher
Pages 208
Release 1992
Genre Hand weaving
ISBN 9780934026772

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Hearings

Hearings
Title Hearings PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
Publisher
Pages 1434
Release 1957
Genre
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