Weaving culture in Europe
By: edited by Efi Kyprianidou
Series: Technes -- 12; Technes (Athens, Greece) -- 12.
Publisher: Nissos Publications
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Athens [Greece]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9789605890629
Subjects: Weaving; Textile design
Notes: Artists included: Loukia Alavanou, Christos Avraam, Eva Borner, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Francesca Fini, Sarah-Joy Ford, Johan Grimonprez, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Nikos Gyftakis, Erato Hadjisavva, Janis Jefferies, Kimsooja, Kyriakos Kousoulides, Cristina Lucas, Anna Lytridou, Cat Mazza, Anastasia Mina, Eleni Nicodemou, Yiannis Sakellis, Anne Wilson, Diana Wood Conroy.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Weaving cultural identities: an introduction / Efi Kyprianidou; title: Part I: The politics of weaving. The politics of weaving in Plato's statesman / Ruby Blondell ; An aesthetics of social fabric / Jacob Lund ; Ravelling and unravelling: myths of Europe, texts, textiles and political metaphors / Janis Jefferies; title: Part II: The culture of weaving. Forgetting and remembering in Greece and Australia: weaving fabrics of repair / Diana Wood Conroy ; Do textiles think? / Alexandra Kokoli; title: Part III. Weaving and architecture. Weaving places, from plots to knots / Myrto-Maria Voreakou; title: Part IV. Arts and the art of weaving: Weaving Europe: "The world as meditation," curating an art exhibition / Efi Kyprianidou ; Black beads: the art of praying / Kyriakos Margaritis.