Textiles & Weaving, Clothing & Stitchery
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A Short History of the Wellington Boot [Hardback]
Timothy Edwards (Author)
Regular Price: $27.00
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ISBN: 9780340921388
Published by : Hodder & Stoughton
The Wellington boot has been at the epicentre of global affairs ever since it's invention in 1817, when the Duke of Wellington, freshly back from thrashing Napoleon, found his old boots most uncomfortable when worn with new-fangled trousers. He... .... Learn More -
Feet and Footwear in Indian Culture [Hardback]
Dieter Neubauer (Author)
Regular Price: $55.00
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ISBN: 9781890206208
Published by : MISC. ACCOUNT
Illustrates the religious and erotic significance of feet and footwear signifying the richness and diversity of ancient footwear. .... Learn More -
Textiles of Central and South America [Hardback]
J L Thompson (Author)
Regular Price: $50.00
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ISBN: 9781861268266
A handsomely illustrated survey of the textile traditions and techniques of Central and South America, featuring 200 color photos.
The rich textile traditions of Central and South America stem from a society whose culture is firmly ... .... Learn More -
Textiles Through the Ages: Pre-Roman [Paperback]
Ruth Barnes (Author); Emma Dick (Author); Jon Thompson (Author)
Regular Price: $9.95
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ISBN: 9781854441843
This booklet is intended to illustrate the history of textiles and weaving through the centuries by bringing together some key objects from the Ashmolean Museum's many collections. The oldest objects tell us about the early history of the fibre... .... Learn More -
L'arte di fabbricare gli zoccoli / The Art of Making Clogs [Paperback]
Giampiero Maracchi (Author)
$23.00ISBN: 9788883048524
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: TESTI E STUDI
Volume: 12
This is a manual for making clogs; it includes the history of clogs and the study of their structure and form, according to their various uses and the needs and customs either in various parts of the world and over a certain period of time. Th... .... Learn More -
Il filo diventa storia / The Yarn becomes History: Trentanni di filati Lineapiù / Thirty Years of Lineapiù Yarns [Hardback]
Nemo Monti (Author)
$66.00ISBN: 9788883049828
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Catalogo della mostra allestita a Firenze, Galleria del Costume, Palazzo Pitti (6-21 luglio 2005). Alla base delle fioritura artistica italiana e soprattutto fiorentina fra Medioevo e Rinascimento scrive Antonio Paolucci cè il filo di lana (e... .... Learn More -
Metal buttons: c.900 BC - c.1700 AD [Paperback]
B. Read (Author)
$35.00ISBN: 9780953245062
Published by : Portcullis Publishing
This book differs from most other publications on buttons, in that examples of metal button-like objects and buttons dating between c.900 BC - c.AD 1700 are subjected to a detailed manufactory analysis, each being described both textually and ... .... Learn More -
Northern Archaeological Textiles: NESAT VII: Textile Symposium in Edinburgh, 5th-7th May 1999 [Hardback]
Frances Pritchard (Author); John Peter Wild (Author)
Regular Price: $60.00
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ISBN: 9781842171622
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this importa... .... Learn More -
Donald King's Collected Textile Studies [Hardback]
Anna Muthesius (Editor); Stacie M. King (Author)
$300.00ISBN: 9781899828661
Published by : Pindar Press
The late Donald King (d. 1998) was the founding father of textile studies in England. His knowledge of the technology and history of textiles of all periods across many lands remains unsurpassed. An erudite and yet modest scholar, he did much t... .... Learn More -
Pashmina [Hardback]
Anamika Pathak (Author)
Regular Price: $12.95
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ISBN: 9788174362391
A Four-Thousand-year-old sandstone bust depicts a bearded priest covering his left shoulder with a shawl or mantle. Even today Indian men wear shawls similarly. In Fact, the woollen tradition in India spans more than four millennia, right from ... .... Learn More