- 240 pages
- English
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About this book
Reading the Thread brings together artists, theorists and designers to explore the nature and use of cloth as a means of record and communication.
Cloth is constructed from threads and, in acknowledging its qualities of recording or communicating a story, we are reading the threads – the read thread. There is also, however, an East Asian myth that when you are born you are linked by an invisible red thread to your soul mate; no matter what you do, this red thread connects you to your fate and, although the thread may become tangled or infinitely long, it will never break.
Exploring histories of making and cultural practices, a multidisciplinary team of international scholars use the metaphorical thread to link the experiences of cloth production, lineage practices, contemporary challenges and sustainable futures, and to explore, through imagery and ideas, the agency of cloth to shape and communicate the sensations and emotions connected with human experience.
Divided into four sections on reading cloth, challenging the stories it tells, following the thread of its narrative and finally anticipating its future, The Read Thread allows a variety of viewpoints and a diversity of voices, without favouring theory or specific cultural approaches, to interrogate cloth as a record of experience within its social, historical, psychological and cultural context; the authors explore our encounters with cloth and its role in the exploration of identity and biography, representative of passage, exchange, life and death. Provocative and timely, and beautifully illustrated with over 50 color images, it is vital reading for students and scholars of textiles, fashion, material culture, art and anthropology.
Cloth is constructed from threads and, in acknowledging its qualities of recording or communicating a story, we are reading the threads – the read thread. There is also, however, an East Asian myth that when you are born you are linked by an invisible red thread to your soul mate; no matter what you do, this red thread connects you to your fate and, although the thread may become tangled or infinitely long, it will never break.
Exploring histories of making and cultural practices, a multidisciplinary team of international scholars use the metaphorical thread to link the experiences of cloth production, lineage practices, contemporary challenges and sustainable futures, and to explore, through imagery and ideas, the agency of cloth to shape and communicate the sensations and emotions connected with human experience.
Divided into four sections on reading cloth, challenging the stories it tells, following the thread of its narrative and finally anticipating its future, The Read Thread allows a variety of viewpoints and a diversity of voices, without favouring theory or specific cultural approaches, to interrogate cloth as a record of experience within its social, historical, psychological and cultural context; the authors explore our encounters with cloth and its role in the exploration of identity and biography, representative of passage, exchange, life and death. Provocative and timely, and beautifully illustrated with over 50 color images, it is vital reading for students and scholars of textiles, fashion, material culture, art and anthropology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE READING THE RECORD
- 1 Tenapi: Markers of Clan Identity of the Alurung, East Indonesia
- 2 The Powerful Whispers Project: A Reimagined Story of Mills, Menders, and Archived Family Memories
- 3 Drapery and Napery: Lace War Memorials
- 4 Cloth, Nationalism, and Cultural Identity: The Symbolism of Traditional Attire in Defining Nigeria’s Diverse Ethnic Indigenism
- Artist Maria Nepomuceno in conversation with Alice Kettle, Part 1
- PART TWO FOLLOWING THE THREAD
- 5 Robe à la Grand’mère—The Reuse of Eighteenth-Century Silks in Romantic-Era Fashion
- 6 Layers of Comfort: Shetland Taatit Rugs
- 7 Making of Kediyun: A Conscious Approach to Cloth
- 8 Transformations in the Making and Meaning of Bark Cloth in Uganda
- Artist Maria Nepomuceno in conversation with Alice Kettle, Part 2
- PART THREE CHALLENGING THE READING
- 9 Small Acts of Refusal: Suffragette-Embroidered Cloths Worked in Holloway Prison
- 10 Stitching Justice: Textiles as a Means for Contemporary Social Justice
- 11 Film as Fabric: Textile Practice as Feminist Critique in Expanded Cinema
- 12 Cuttings 1820–2020
- Artist Celia Pym in conversation with Lesley Millar, Part 1
- PART FOUR DRAFTING THE FUTURE
- 13 Portraying a Practice: Communicating E-Textiles
- 14 Cloth, Techné, and Traces in Digital Fashion
- 15 The Coded Lab
- 16 Piñatex®, A New Material for a New World
- Artist Celia Pym in conversation with Lesley Millar, Part 2
- Index
- Copyright