Writing with thread
Subtitle: traditional textiles of southwest Chinese minorities : a special exhibition from the collection of Huang Ying Feng and the Evergrand Art Museum in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Contributors: University of Hawaii at Manoa. Art Gallery.; Chazen Museum of Art.; Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.); Evergrand Art Museum (Taoyuan, Taiwan)
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Art Gallery
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Honolulu, Hawaii
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780982033210
Subjects: Textile fabrics -- China, Southwest -- Exhibitions; Ethnic costume -- China, Southwest -- Exhibitions; Ethnology -- China, Southwest -- Exhibitions; Symbolism in art -- China, Southwest -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Other titles: Traditional textiles of southwest Chinese minorities
Notes: Catalog from the exhibition held at the University of Hawai'i Art Gallery, Sept. 21-Nov. 30, 2008; the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jan. 31-April 12, 2009; and the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, N.M., May 15-Aug. 16, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-429).
Table of contents: title: Foreword/Acknowledgements; title: Reading costumes as "texts" and decoding ethnic visual culture of southwest China / Angela Sheng; title: The other writing of people without a written language / Deng Qiyao; title: Miao marriage symbols / Xi Keding; title: Miao clothing styles / Xi Keding; title: An appreciation of Miao silver ornament culture / Li Qianbin; title: Interpreting needlework from a gender perspective : femininity and self-esteem; title: the southeast Guizhou Miao / Zhang Xiao; title: Reading threads : clothing, ethnicity, and place in southwest China / Stevan Harrell; title: A brief history of ethnic costume in premodern China / Kate Lingley; title: A journey : collecting southwest Chinese minority textiles / Huang Ying Feng; title: Map; title: Minority groups/locations; title: Miao (Hmong); title: Tujia; title: Dong; title: Yao; title: Maonan; title: Zhuang; title: Shui; title: Buyi; title: Zang; title: Yi; title: Gelao; title: Hani; title: Dai; title: Jingpo; title: Li; title: Notes on textile terms; title: Bibliography.