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The art is the cloth : how to look at and understand tapestries / Micala Sidore ; foreword by Charissa Bremer-David.
Fine Arts Library NK2995.5 .S53 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sidore, Micala, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tapestry.
- Tapestry--United States.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Atglen, Pennsylvania : Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., [2020]
- Summary:
- This eye-opening guide from expert tapestry weaver and historian Sidore gives how-to strategies enabling nonweavers to notice and appreciate the meaning of these artworks. (Book jacket)
- Contents:
- Foreword: Visual poetry
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The elements of weaving
- Special materials
- Visual themes, adapting the past to the present
- Trompe l'oeil
- Directionality
- Textiles and identities, when textiles define a particular group
- Self-reference
- Historical self-reference
- The art in the cloth.
- ISBN:
- 9780764359927
- 0764359924
- OCLC:
- 1197662135
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