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India Block Printing
posted by
OmieWise
on Jul 29, 2011 -
10 comments
Future textile design by
Elisa Strozyk
.
posted by
netbros
on Jan 16, 2010 -
6 comments
Best known
as an
Indonesian
handicraft,
batik
is a
distinctive
technique for textiles that
has been used
for millennia and can be found as far away as
Egypt
,
Ghana
,
China
and
India
. An
integral part
of daily life
in Java, batik
has
spread around
the world as a wellknown
artform
as well as clothing. From its
hippy heyday
to the
smart couture outfits
of the Singapore Girl, batik is
still daily wear
for many and
the equivalent
of
black tie
in the ASEAN.
[
more inside
]
posted by
infini
on Dec 19, 2009 -
13 comments
Crystal Lee Sutton
was fired for
trying to organise a union
. The incident was
made into the 1979 film
Norma Rae
.
Last week she died at the age of 68
.
posted by
Fiasco da Gama
on Sep 14, 2009 -
23 comments
Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory
, an online exhibit of comtemporary textiles created (mostly) by women living in war zones.
posted by
Miko
on Jan 9, 2009 -
4 comments
Cloth made from tree bark?
Photos at the Textile Museum of Canada's
Cloth That Grows On Trees
exhibition page.
posted by
Chuckles
on Jan 8, 2007 -
11 comments
WEALTH OF KINGS
Very nice collection of rare and
beautiful
works of the rug weavers art,including
fascinating
history of the middle east.
posted by
hortense
on Jul 26, 2006 -
7 comments
Just a small piece down the road from
Christmas Town USA
looms the empty
Loray Mill
, an
icon
of the old
industrial South
and a monument to the early
labor
movement
.
Gastonia 1929
: the chief of police is
murdered
, the
Communist organizer
flees the country, and the young
union
balladeer
is killed by a strikebreaking mob. (Hear Pete Seeger
sing
one of her ballads.
[real media]
) Much more on the area's
rich
and
turbulent
history at
A Southern Primer
.
(Lewis Hine's child labor photographs previously discussed
here
.)
posted by
milquetoast
on Dec 9, 2005 -
1 comment
Portrait of a Textile Worker
makes one person among millions of unseen workers visible. Her image was constructed with thirty thousand clothing labels stitched together over two years.
posted by
heatherann
on Jun 24, 2005 -
7 comments
Deliberately concealed garments
footwear
and
other items
have been found tucked away in buildings, sometimes even wrapped around mummified cats. This project of the
University of Southampton's Textile Conservation Centre
is developing an online archive of the finds they have made in an effort to raise awareness of this
folk custom
.
posted by
jessamyn
on Feb 29, 2004 -
8 comments
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