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Weavers' Stories from Island Southeast Asia
Roy W. Hamilton
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Description for Weavers' Stories from Island Southeast Asia
Paperback.
Weaver's Stories from Island Southeast Asia delves into the personal stories of individual textile artists, bringing recognition to their accomplishments, skills, and extraordinary lives. Photographs of ten women from eight locations in the Southeast Asian archipelago along with examples of their weaving are accompanied by a DVD showing them at work. The book is part of a project to bring stories from the lives of Southeast Asian weavers and batik makers to an American audience, using video as the main component. Although the makers of textiles are generally not named in American museum collections, the creation of ... Read more
Weaver's Stories from Island Southeast Asia delves into the personal stories of individual textile artists, bringing recognition to their accomplishments, skills, and extraordinary lives. Photographs of ten women from eight locations in the Southeast Asian archipelago along with examples of their weaving are accompanied by a DVD showing them at work. The book is part of a project to bring stories from the lives of Southeast Asian weavers and batik makers to an American audience, using video as the main component. Although the makers of textiles are generally not named in American museum collections, the creation of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fowler Museum of Cultural History,U.S. United States
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780977834495
SKU
V9780977834495
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Ref
99-50
About Roy W. Hamilton
Roy W. Hamilton is senior curator for Asian and Pacific collections at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Other contributors include Jill Forshee, Traude Gavin, and Cherubim A. Quizon.
Reviews for Weavers' Stories from Island Southeast Asia
Personalized accounts, enfolding the woven fabrics, invite a reader to figure out not only the motifs of art but also motifs of living and dying in the crucible of historical upheavals.
Dev. N. Pathak
Journal of Folklore Research
Dev. N. Pathak
Journal of Folklore Research