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Title: |
The Art Is the Cloth |
| Sub-title: |
How to Look at and Understand Tapestries |
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| By (author): |
Micala Sidore Foreword by: Charissa Bremer-David |
| ISBN10-13: |
0764359924 : 9780764359927 |
| Illustrations: |
304 colour & b/w photos |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
254x228x22mm |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Weight: |
1.560 Kg. |
| Published: |
Schiffer Craft - September 2020 |
| List Price: |
40.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Fashion & textiles: design : Spinning & weaving |
| A creative visual tour of 300 tapestries throughout history to present day, showing how they're created and how to look at and understand them. "An impressive presentation of what tapestry weavers are doing and of how to learn to see it . . . Of interest not only to tapestry weavers, but to all those interested in the art of weaving and art in general." â Sandra Hutton, Executive Director Emerita, International Textile & Apparel Association This guide from expert tapestry weaver and historian Micala Sidore gives how-to strategies enabling weavers and nonweavers to notice and appreciate the meaning of tapestries, what they can do, and how they do it. Enjoy more than 300 tapestries from the 12th to the 21st centuries, with Sidore's strategies enabling you to think about the weavings in ways you have never before considered. She groups pieces that talk with each otherâ and that also converse with the viewer. â Enjoy learning basic elements of weaving to help you become increasingly sophisticated in understanding what you're seeing. â Then, learn seven ways in which tapestries can call attention to themselves as cloth. â Understand the eye-opening range of materials and visual themes, the use of trompe lâ oeil, the importance of the direction in which the weaver weaves, and more. After this learning experience, you'll bring smarter eyes to your museum wandering, deeper enjoyment to your collection and purchases, and surprising new skills and creativity to your weaving of fibers . . . and of life. |
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“Micala Sidore, a tapestry weaver in her own right, began work on this book after organising an eponymous travelling exhibition of tapestries by 60 weavers from Canada, Mexico and the United States... This is a surprising book, not only because of the many weaving artists it portrays but also for the unusual way in which they are presented. The works, both old and new, are arranged into nine chapters which allow readers to appreciate what tapestry weavers seek to achieve in their art... Aside from the way in which artworks are organised in this book, I was equally impressed by the number of artists featured (238), many of them, of course, from North and South America, but also many from Europe and other parts of the world... It goes without saying that I strongly recommend buying this very beautiful book which can help readers see behind the scenes of tapestry making as an art form.” -- Textile Arts Forum, 30 December 2020
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"Gloriously produced... the photography and reproduction is of the highest standard... Contemplation, immersion, and sheer enjoyment prevail... Represents a genuine celebration of this art form... Sidore has made a real contribution to all who are creative, who weave and who enjoy viewing the visual arts." -- Michael Crompton, Tapestry Weaver
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