Research Catalog

Title

Material choices : refashioning bast and leaf fibers in Asia and the Pacific / Roy W. Hamilton and B. Lynne Milgram, editors ; Contributors : Sylvia Fraser-Lu [and others].

Publication

Los Angeles : Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Hamilton, Roy W.
• Milgram, B. Lynne (Barbara Lynne), 1948-
• Fraser-Lu, Sylvia.
• Fowler Museum at UCLA.

Description

187 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 31 cm.

Series Statement

Fowler Museum textile series ; no. 8

Uniform Title

Fowler Museum textile series ; no. 8.

Subjects

• Plant fibers > Pacific Area
• Plant fibers > Asia
• Textile fibers > Asia
• Textile fibers > Pacific Area

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Considering Bast and Leaf Fiber Textiles in a Globalized Context / B. Lynne Milgram and Roy W. Hamilton -- Ch. 1. Bast and Leaf Fibers in the Asia-Pacific Region: An Overview / Roy W. Hamilton -- Ch. 2. Hemp Textiles of the Hmong in Vietnam / Tran Thi Thu Thuy -- Ch. 3. Ulap Doyo: Woven Fibers of East Kalimantan / Elizabeth Oley -- Ch. 4. Sambe: Korean Hemp Fabrics / Bu-ja Koh -- Ch. 5. Stemming from the Lotus: Sacred Robes for Buddhist Monks / Sylvia Fraser-Lu and Ma Thanegi -- Ch. 6. Bashofu, The Mingei Movement, and the Creation of a New Okinawa / Amanda Mayer Stinchecum -- Ch. 7. Recrafting Tradition and Livelihood: Women and Bast Fiber Textiles in the Upland Philippines / B. Lynne Milgram -- Ch. 8. Preserving Echigo Jofu and Nara Sarashi: Issues in Contemporary Bast Fiber Textile Production / Melissa M. Rinne -- Ch. 9. Reviving the Sacred Machi: A Chiefly Weaving from Fais Island, Micronesia / Donald H. Rubinstein and Sophiano Limol.

ISBN

• 0974872989 (soft cover)
• 9780974872988 (soft cover)

LCCN

2006033706

OCLC

• ocm73502338
• SCSB-5396398

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries