[PDF] Printed And Dyed Textiles From Africa eBook

Author : John Gillow
Publisher : British museum Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN :

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This book is a visual feast, illustrating the richness and diversity of the African textile tradition, and providing designers at all levels with inspiration for their own work. Over 30 textiles from The British Museum's renowned collection are explored in detail: magnificent blue-and-white, indigo-resist-dyed cloths from West Africa; multi-coloured, tie-dyed and woven North African textiles; "mud cloths" from Mali; the unique wrap-striped weaves and ikats from Madagascar; "adinkra" block-print and painted "caligraphy" cloths from Ghana; and the "adire" cloths from Yorubaland

Author : Shirley Friedland
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
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A pictorial survey of printed fabrics - includes abstract and geometric, floral and animal prints. There is a companion volume entitled "African Fabric Design."

Author : Anne Grosfilley
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Batik
ISBN : 9783791384368

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Reveals the complex origins of African wax print textiles and traces the process of printing and dying the fabric, involving wax or indigo, to its West Indian roots. Also explores the differences of mass-produced and artisanally sourced fabrics, tracking where textiles go from the manufacturing centers to markets and cities throughout Africa and the world

Author : Shirley Friedland
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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This pictorial survey of African fabric prints includes contemporary bold two- and three-color designs, stripes, grids, and geometrics arranged with a focus on design, color, and pattern. Shown are commercially-made adaptations of traditional African designs in cotton, rayon, wool, synthetics, metallics and surface embellishment. The photographs are lively references and inspiration to artists and designers of fashion and fabrics.

Author : Florence Harvey Pettit
Publisher : Hastings House Book Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :

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"This book represents an achievement in compiling and putting into order all the facts discovered in an intensive four-year study. Included is an important study of 'Indigofera tinctoria', the beautiful but malodorous dye plant, indigo; the tale reads like a novel and is the complete study in book form of the strange dye plant and of the uses of the blue dye. The book, enhanced by Mrs. Pettit's understanding of techniques and by authoriatative and scholarly facts gleaned from New England archives, also gives a lively picture of the eigteenth-century dyer's and printer's life as an artisan in the American colonies." - book jacket.

Author : J. Picton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429708858

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An illustrated survey of African textiles - their design, manufacture, and use - as part of African life, art, and culture.