Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance /

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Author / Creator:Gordon, Beverly.
Imprint:London : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
Description:304 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8518473
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ISBN:9780500515662
0500515662
Notes:"With 380 illustrations, 318 in colour".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: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.