Weaving Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano, Victoria Mitchell, Nilda Callanaupa Alvarez, Sophie Desrosiers, Ellen Harlizius-Kluck, Christine Giuntini, Lynda Pete, Suzanne Lassalle, Annabel Vallard, Laurence Douny, Rodolphe Rougerie, Sophie Cersoy, Caroline Fowler, Ittai Weinryb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meneses Lozano, Héctor Manuel, Author.

Mitchell, Victoria, Author.

Contributor:

Fowler, Caroline, editor.

Weinryb, Ittai, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A beautifully illustrated look at how weaving has influenced art, industry, and society worldwide Weaving is one of humanity’s oldest technologies and remains central to our global economies. Yet because of the fragility of textiles and their association with women’s labor and craft, they have often been marginalized in art history. From the early-modern Andes to the contemporary artist’s studio, weaving has shaped artistic practice and raised important questions for conservators and museums responsible for preserving these delicate materials. At its core, weaving is an act of material transformation in which discrete threads are organized into coherent cloth. This book brings together some of today’s leading conservationists and art historians to examines this process, highlighting the structural principles that underlie an art often assumed to be intuitive. The contributors explore how weaving reshaped material production and social life across cultures and historical periods, creating networks of skilled makers and new forms of exchange and shared knowledge. Taking readers from the human labor of the handloom to the mechanized production of the industrial age, Weaving demonstrates how a practice at the intersection of art, science, and community has shaped social, technological, and economic histories around the globe.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Weaving: An Introduction / Caroline Fowler, Ittai Weinryb

Interwoven: Material, Method, Myth, and Meaning / Victoria Mitchell

On Mending and Repairing: Textile Conservation / Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano

Case Studies in Weaving

Silks: Entomological, Cultural, and Material Perspectives / Sophie Desrosiers, Suzanne Lassalle, Annabel Vallard, Laurence Douny, Sophie Cersoy, Rodolphe Rougerie

Conservation and Preservation of African Ceremonial and Ritual Textiles / Christine Giuntini

Native Weaving in the Americas / Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano

Diné Weaving / Lynda Teller Pete

Preserving Ticlla Weaving in the Peruvian Highlands / Nilda Callañaupa Álvarez

The Making of Patterned Canvases / Ellen Harlizius-Klück

Notes

Further Reading

Contributors

Index

Photography and Copyright Credits

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed August 05 2026)

ISBN:

9780691278292