Textiles of Southeast Asia

Textiles of Southeast Asia
Author: Robyn Maxwell
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2014-08-05
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780804844406

Textiles provide a visual history of a country's culture and crafting traditions in a way few other things can accomplish. In Textiles of Southeast Asia, Dr. Robyn Maxwell provides the definitive work on Southeast Asian textiles. Traditional textiles are one of the most widely collected and important categories of Southeast Asian art. Using an extensive range of locally produced raw materials and an astonishing array of techniques—including applique, weaving, batik and embroidery—the textiles of Southeast Asia are astonishing in their versatility and originality. Textiles are used to fashion everything from everyday clothing to sacred and ceremonial costumes, shrouds and wrapping cloths, hangings, banners and ritual regalia—all of which are represented and explained in Textiles of Southeast Asia. This authoritative text focuses on the changing relationship between indigenous Southeast Asian traditions and the outside influences continuing to be brought to the area, which change the nature of the region's textile traditions. This book considers the various ways Southeast Asian textile artisans reacted over the centuries to the steady stream of new and powerful ideas and raw materials arriving from India, China, the Islamic world and Europe. A detailed and definitive resource, Textiles of Southeast Asia is a welcome addition to the field of textiles.

Handwoven Textiles of South-East Asia

Handwoven Textiles of South-East Asia
Author: Sylvia Fraser-Lu
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1988
Genre: Design
ISBN:

This beautifully illustrated, pioneering work surveys the history and techniques of textile production past and present in South-East Asia, offering important insights into the economic, social, and religious life of the people.

Art of Southeast Asian Textiles

Art of Southeast Asian Textiles
Author: Linda Susan McIntosh
Publisher: Serindia Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Textile fabrics
ISBN: 9781932476590

"First published in 2012 by Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd. ... in association with Serindia Publications, Inc.,,"--T.p. verso.

Weavers' Stories from Island Southeast Asia

Weavers' Stories from Island Southeast Asia
Author: Roy W. Hamilton
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Weaver's Stories from Island Southeast Asia delves into the personal stories of individual textile artists, bringing recognition to their accomplishments, skills, and extraordinary lives. Photographs of ten women from eight locations in the Southeast Asian archipelago along with examples of their weaving are accompanied by a DVD showing them at work. The book is part of a project to bring stories from the lives of Southeast Asian weavers and batik makers to an American audience, using video as the main component. Although the makers of textiles are generally not named in American museum collections, the creation of textiles is not anonymous in Southeast Asian communities. Senior artists are held in public esteem, and the cloth they produce is instantly recognizable to local people as their unique product.

Indian Textiles in the East

Indian Textiles in the East
Author: John Guy
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-09-22
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780500288290

"An ingenious new presentation of an old history."—Fiberarts The dazzling cloths presented here are the visual record of one of the great untold stories of Asian design history: the trade in Indian textiles to Southeast and East Asia. The chintzes made for export to Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are now well known; but for over a thousand years Indian cloths were traded for the spices and forest and mineral wealth of the East by Asian, Arab, and European merchants. Universally in demand, the textiles were designed to suit specific markets: attire for royalty, diplomatic gifts, displays for festive occasions, and clothing for rites of passage and other ceremonies. Outstanding among them are the patterned cottons—the famous chintzes—and the tie-dyed silk patola, reserved for rulers and nobility.

Textiles and the Tai Experience in Southeast Asia

Textiles and the Tai Experience in Southeast Asia
Author: Mattiebelle Gittinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1992
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

Exhibition will be presented first at Bangkok at the Thai Cultural Centre in July 1992; from Bangkok, the exhibition will travel to Washington, D. C., where it will be presented at the the Textile Museum

Textiles of South-East Asia

Textiles of South-East Asia
Author: Angela Thompson
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A variety of textile techniques from across South-East Asia are covered in this book, with explanations and detailed images of the craftwork in progress.

Textiles of Southeast Asia

Textiles of Southeast Asia
Author: Robyn Maxwell
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 1613
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1462906982

Textiles provide a visual history of a country's culture and crafting traditions in a way few other things can accomplish. In Textiles of Southeast Asia, Dr. Robyn Maxwell provides the definitive work on Southeast Asian textiles. Traditional textiles are one of the most widely collected and important categories of Southeast Asian art. Using an extensive range of locally produced raw materials and an astonishing array of techniques--including applique, weaving, batik and embroidery--the textiles of Southeast Asia are astonishing in their versatility and originality. Textiles are used to fashion everything from everyday clothing to sacred and ceremonial costumes, shrouds and wrapping cloths, hangings, banners and ritual regalia--all of which are represented and explained in Textiles of Southeast Asia. This authoritative text focuses on the changing relationship between indigenous Southeast Asian traditions and the outside influences continuing to be brought to the area, which change the nature of the region's textile traditions. This book considers the various ways Southeast Asian textile artisans reacted over the centuries to the steady stream of new and powerful ideas and raw materials arriving from India, China, the Islamic world and Europe. A detailed and definitive resource, Textiles of Southeast Asia is a welcome addition to the field of textiles.

Patterned Splendour

Patterned Splendour
Author: Lesley Pullen
Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9814881856

There exist numerous free-standing figurative sculptures produced in Java between the eighth and fifteenth centuries whose dress display detailed textile patterns. This surviving body of sculpture, carved in stone and cast in metal, varying in both size and condition, remains in archaeological sites and museums in Indonesia and worldwide. The equatorial climate of Java has precluded any textiles from this period surviving. Therefore this book argues the textiles represented on these sculptures offer a unique insight into the patterned splendour of the textiles in circulation during this period. This volume contributes to our knowledge of the textiles in circulation at that time by including the first comprehensive record of this body of sculpture, together with the textile patterns classified into a typology of styles within each chapter.

Textiles for this World and Beyond

Textiles for this World and Beyond
Author: Mattiebelle Gittinger
Publisher: Nouvelles éditions Scala
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2005
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

This sumptuous book presents a fascinating overview of the use of cloth, its function in society and the messages contained within colour, pattern and technique.