The poetics of fabric intermedial craft in poetry and textiles Adele Bardazzi

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bardazzi, Adele, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2026

Summary:

Challenging artistic, cultural, social and scholarly hierarchies, this international and interdisciplinary edited collection unpicks the intricate relationship between the languages of textiles and poetry. Navigating the frayed boundary between fabric and poetic form, The Poetics of Fabric explores the work of over 30 scholars, poets, makers and artists across more than 18 countries - alongside unnamed domestic makers and writers - from the Middle Ages to today. Structured around themes of memory, collective geographies and histories, and metaphor and metamorphosis, with a further section dedicated to contemporary creative practitioners, it guides scholars from a 7th-century Irish bog, through 20th-century Iran, to the speculative geographies of Planet G-101/2; from Dante's use of weaving as a metaphor for poetic creation to a global framework for craft ms and index.etaphors in contemporary women's poetry; from Joy Harjo's use of poetic and material lines to strengthen Indigenous American cultural, ceremonial, and sacred memory to embroidered Scandinavian graphic novels; from textiles, poetry and songs as resistance in colonial and capitalist contexts to the emerging binaries of domestic knitting and computer programming. Drawing on methodologies from literary analysis, art history and material culture to intermedial studies, digital humanities and intersectional feminism, this expansive collection presents diverse scholarly and creative perspectives in dialogue. Working to challenge entrenched scholarly and cultural norms, The Poetics of Fabric advances a growing area in theory and practice, and considers the constraining and liberating potential of textiles and poetry in their myriad forms and folds

Contents:

Introduction, Adele Bardazzi, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Part One: Revisitations: From Memory to Memorials

1. 'history/woven from wet tall grass': Textility, Memory, and Material Culture in the Native American Poetry of Joy Harjo,

Ariana Lyriotakis, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

2. Making Memories: Embroidery in Contemporary Nordic Comics and Poetry, Nina Ernst, Linnaeus University, Sweden

3. Digital Tapestry as Memorial: The Unreadable Textile Elegies by Indira Allegra, Adele Bardazzi, Utrech University, Netherlands

Part Two: Collective Geographies of Histories and Stories

4. Quilting African American Women's Heritage in Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' and Faith Ringgold's The Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles, Malaika Sutter, University of Bern, Switzerland

5. Dressing for Defiance: From Senegal to Diasporic Colonial Paris with Khady Diop, Pierre-Antoine Vettorello, University of Antwerp, Belgium

6. Weaving Prayer: The Fabrication of Worship in the Convent of St Agnes, Emmerich, in the Fifteenth Century, Ane Preisler Skovgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark

7. Crafting Extremes in Andreas Eschbach's The Hair-Carpet Weavers, Jessica Hemmings, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Part Three: Repetitions, Metaphors, Metamorphoses

8. The Spiderwoman Weaves in Twentieth-century Persian Poetry: Feminist Endeavors of Parvin E'tesami, Behnam M. Fomeshi, Monash University, Australia

9. 'Bobbin and shuttle': Craft Poems as Intersectional Feminism in Contemporary Transnational Women's Writing, Amy E. Elkins Malcalester College, USA

10. On Hebridean Waulking: Textile and Poetic Production, Jordana Infeld, Deakin University, Australia

11. La trama, l'ordita, e il vano: Weaving and Emptiness in Dante's Commedia, Jonny Wiles, University of Cambridge, UK

Part Four: Creative Practices

12. Davis Street Drawing Room, Anne Wilson, Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

13. Weaving Language, Francesca Capone, Artist, USA

14. The Impossibility of Return, Laura Davis, Artist, USA

15. lichen weaves: entangling human and more-than-human ways of knowing, through poetic relations, Brenda Duggan Technological University Dublin, Republic of Ireland

16. The Cloonshannagh Bog Body, Textiles, Creative Writing & Somatic Research, Jools Gilson, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland

17. Soft Sculpture Soliloquy, Anna Warfield, Artist and Poet, USA

18. </unravel;>, Irene Albino, Central Saint Martins, UK

19. Weaving is the Opposite of Coding, Allison Parrish, Poet, New York University, USA

Afterword

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Print version:9781350512078 The poetics of fabric

ISBN:

9781350513211

1350513210

OCLC:

1520506926

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