Traditional textiles of the Andes
Subtitle: life and cloth in the highlands : the Jeffrey Appleby collection of Andean textiles
By: edited by Lynn A. Meisch ... [et al.].
Contributors: Meisch, Lynn, 1945-; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum.
Publisher: Thames and Hudson; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York; San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Appleby, Jeffrey -- Art collections -- Exhibitions; Indian textile fabrics -- Andes Region -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Life and cloth in the highlands
Description: Traditional Textiles of the Andes features eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century indigenous textiles woven by the Aymara and Quechua. The elaborately patterned pieces are all drawn from the previously unpublished and remarkable Jeffrey Appleby Collection and include everyday and ceremonial textiles of all types - ponchos, skirts, belts, hats, slings.

The accompanying essays by Lynn A. Meisch, Amy Oakland Rodman, Ed Franquemont, Margot Blum Schevill and Barbara Arthur address such topics as the long history of fibers, dyes, imagery, and textile use in the region; and the effects of urbanization and westernization on traditional Andean weaving. Texts and photographs together reflect textile arts that are both a primary source for the study of the communities that made them and a triumph of design, color, and imagery.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-152) and index.
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition To honor the ancestors: life and cloth in the Andes, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 21 June-19 October 1997"--Verso t.p.