Textiles of Timor
Subtitle: island in the woven sea
By: Roy W. Hamilton and Joanna Barrkman, editors ; with essays and contributions by Ruth Barnes [and 13 others]
Series: Fowler Museum textile series -- no. 13; Fowler Museum textile series -- no. 13.
Publisher: Fowler Museum at UCLA
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780984755080
Subjects: Weavers; Textile fabrics; Exhibitions; Textile crafts
Description: "This book examines the textile traditions across Timor, delineating approximately twenty different style areas. It explores the uniqueness of these regional styles as well as the borrowings among them. Emphasis is placed on the use of various weaving techniques, and the book is abundantly illustrated with studio photographs of exemplary textiles, as well as field shots showing their use in the past, as well as their persistence into the present. The dynamism of the traditions and their evolution are also traced"--
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Fowler Museum, UCLA, September 7, 2014 - January 4, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture, history, and weaving in Timor / Roy W. Hamilton; title: Textile style areas in Timor / Roy W. Hamilton and Joanna Barrkman with a contribution by Rosalia Soares; title: Plants as the pivot: the ethnobotany of Timorese textiles / Anthony B. Cunningham, Willy Daos Kadati, Jose Ximenes, Jean Howe, I Made Maduarta, and William Ingram; title: Early textiles from Timor / Ruth Barnes; title: Textiles of Oecusse: a personal account / Willy Daos Kadati with Anne Finch; title: "She comes with a spindle in her hand": Biboki textiles / Joanna Barrkman; title: Malaka regency: cloth of the plain, cloth of the hills / Roy W. Hamilton and Yohannes Nahak Taromi; title: Textiles of Suai Loro and Camenaça / Joanna Barrkman; title: Continuity and change in the Kemak textiles of Marobo / Joanna Barrkman; title: Alfred Bühler's collection from Baguia at the Museum der Kulturen, Basel / Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff; title: Loss and return: personal stories of Fataluku weavers / Jill Forshee.