Naga textiles : design, technique, meaning and effect of a local craft tradition in Northeast India / Marion Wettstein.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Wettstein, Marion.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile fabrics--India--Nāgāland.

Textile fabrics.

Textile fabrics--Burma--Naga Hills.

Nāgāland (India)--Civilization.

Nāgāland (India).

Civilization.

Burma--Naga Hills.

India--Nāgāland.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

368 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 28 cm + 1 folded color supplement

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Arnoldsche, [2014]

Summary:

The focus of this comprehensive work is the aesthetics and the decryption of the language of the textiles of the Nagas, a group of tribal local cultures in the north-east of India and the north-west of Burma. For more than ten years, anthropologist Marion Wettstein has systematically been drawing the traditional fabrics, and researching their design, production techniques, meaning and contemporary transposition into fashion. More than 60 color pencil drawings and 180 watercolors on the morphology of the textile samples are considered by the author to be not just an artistic translation but in particular visual argumentation.

Notes:

"Design chart of Naga textiles, watercolor and pencil drawings by Marion Wettstein" on supplement (1 folded sheet) in pocket.

doctoral University of Zurich 2011

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783897904194

3897904195

OCLC:

893406614