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Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance / Beverly Gordon.
- Title
- Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance / Beverly Gordon.
- Author
- Gordon, Beverly.
- Publication
- New York : Thames & Hudson, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | NK8806 .G67 2011g | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 304 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 27 cm.
- Summary
- Discusses how textiles are an integral part of the human life journey from cradle to grave in a multitude of practical, symbolic and spiritual ways. This title illustrates the many uses of textiles in our everyday lives. It outlines how textiles are a means of communication functional, political and artistic and a metaphor for transcendence.
- Subjects
- Note
- "With 380 illustrations, 318 in colour".
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780500515662
- 0500515662
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries