Textiles
Subtitle: the whole story : uses, meanings, significance
By: Beverly Gordon
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780500515662
Subjects: Social aspects; Textile fabrics; Clothing and dress
Description: Discusses how textiles are an integral part of the human life journey from cradle to grave in a multitude of practical, symbolic and spiritual ways. This title illustrates the many uses of textiles in our everyday lives. It outlines how textiles are a means of communication functional, political and artistic and a metaphor for transcendence.
Notes: "With 380 illustrations, 318 in colour".

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The very fabric of existence : textiles in human consciousness; title: Living on the earth : textiles and human survival; title: The ties that bind : the social meanings of textiles; title: Cloth and temporal power : money, trade, status, and control; title: Cloth as communication : expressing meaning, messages, and beauty; title: Textiles and the spirit : the sacred, spiritual, and healing significance of cloth.