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Textiles in daily life in the Middle Ages / by Martin, Rebecca.(CARDINAL)213320; Cleveland Museum of Art.(CARDINAL)137341;

Bibliography: pages 64-67.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Cleveland Museum of Art; Textile fabrics, Medieval; Textile fabrics, Medieval, in art; Art, Medieval;

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Merchants, princes and painters : silk fabrics in Italian and northern paintings, 1300-1550 / by Monnas, Lisa,author.(CARDINAL)891390; Yale University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)332061;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-391) and index.Covering a period that witnessed the flowering of the Renaissance and the major expansion of the Italian silk industry, this volume examines the Italian silk fabrics depicted in paintings from Italy, England and the Netherlands over the course of 250 years.

Subjects: Silk in art.; Textile fabrics in art.; Painting, Italian.; Painting, Dutch.;

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William Morris's flowers / by Bain, Rowan,author.(CARDINAL)816688; Morris, William,1834-1896.Works.Selections.; Victoria and Albert Museum.(CARDINAL)143050;

Includes bibliographical references (page 142)."A passionate advocate of craftsmanship over mass-production, William Morris (1834- 1896) designed a huge variety of objects, but it is his highly original carpet, fabric and wallpaper patterns that have continued to capture the imagination and exert their influence on the decorative arts. Around 600 such designs are attributed to Morris, of which the vast majority are based on natural forms, including trees, plants and flowers. This beautifully designed, accessibly priced gift book offers a wealth of designs by Morris in which flowers are the principal motif, bringing together not only completed patterns but also working drawings in pen and watercolour, and examples of his pearwood, floral-pattern printing blocks. It also explores examples of the sources that inspired Morris's flower-based designs: his own gardens at the Red House in Kent, Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire and elsewhere; 16th- and 17th-century herbals; illuminated medieval manuscripts; late medieval and Renaissance tapestries; and a range of decorated objects, particularly from the Islamic world, that Morris studied at the South Kensington Museum (now the V & A). Authored by Rowan Bain, curator at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, north London, and lavishly illustrated with almost 100 colour illustrations, this exquisite book will both inform and delight."--Publisher's description.

Subjects: Morris, William, 1834-1896.; Flowers in art.; Design; Arts and crafts movement; Decoration and ornament; Textile fabrics;

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Dress in the Middle Ages / by Piponnier, Françoise.(CARDINAL)337006; Mane, Perrine.(CARDINAL)337001;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163).Part I. Approaches to medieval costume -- Sources and applications. True or false? Art as witness to an age ; From romance to account book ; Archaeology, the material evidence -- Materials. Wool and colours ; Silk from the East, silk from the West ; Vegetable fibres ; Animal skins ; Metal -- The acquisition of clothing. Domestic activities ; Making clothes to measure ; Ready-made clothing ; Gifts and hand-outs : new and old -- Part II. Development and social groupings -- The history of working-class clothing. The elements of costume ; Adapting to climatic conditions ; The birth of working clothes -- Kings and warriors : the ruling classes and their fashions. Warriors and the mirage of the Mediterranean world ; Medieval classicism ; The development of armour ; The invention of modern masculine dress ; Court fashions and figures ; Fabrics and colours -- The diffusion and regulation of fashion. From masculine to feminine fashion ; Economy and economics ; Social order, moral order and the regulation of appearances ; Town doublets and country doublets ; The geography of styles -- Part III. Signs and signifiers -- The cycles of life. The nude and the naked ; The ages of life ; Rites of passage -- Clothes as identification markers. The outward expression of dignity ; Renunciation ; Signs of recognition ; Exclusion and discrimination -- Beyond society's limits. Carnivals and popular entertainment ; Fancy dress and courtly games ; From juggler to the king's fool ; Processions and parades ; Towards theatrical costume -- Glossary."This absorbing survey of medieval clothing makes an important and unique contribution to our understanding of the cultural and social conditions of western Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Drawing on paintings and sculpture, documents and literature, surviving clothing, textiles, jewellery and armour, Francoise Piponnier and Perrine Mane show that garments and accessories of the Middle Ages reveal much about life and society of the time. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Subjects: Civilization, Medieval.; Clothing and dress in art.; Clothing and dress;

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Ceremonial synagogue textiles : from Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Italian communities / by Yaniv, Bracha,author.(CARDINAL)289200; Goell, Yohai,translator.(CARDINAL)877297; Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,publisher.(CARDINAL)879152; Liverpool University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)879421;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-447) and indexes."Richly illustrated and meticulously documented, this is the first comprehensive survey of synagogue textiles to be available in English. Bracha Yaniv, a leading expert in the field of Jewish ceremonial textiles, records their evolution from ancient times to the present. The volume contains a systematic consideration of the mantle, the wrapper, the Torah scroll binder, and the Torah ark curtain and valance, and considers the cultural factors that inspired the evolution of these different items and their motifs. Fabrics, techniques, and modes of production are described in detail; the inscriptions marking the circumstances of donation are similarly subjected to close analysis. Fully annotated plates demonstrate the richness of the styles and traditions in use in different parts of the Jewish diaspora, drawing attention to regional customs. Throughout, emphasis is placed on presenting and explaining all relevant aspects of the Jewish cultural heritage. The concluding section contains transcriptions, translations, and annotations of some 180 inscriptions recording the circumstances in which items were donated, providing a valuable survey of customs of dedication. Together with the comprehensive bibliography, inventory lists, and other relevant documentation, this volume will be an invaluable reference work for the scholarly community, museum curators, and others interested in the Jewish cultural heritage. The concluding section contains transcriptions, translations, and annotations of some 180 inscriptions recording the circumstances in which items were donated, providing a valuable survey of customs of dedication. Together with the comprehensive bibliography, inventory lists, and other relevant documentation, this volume will be an invaluable reference work for the scholarly community, museum curators, and others interested in the Jewish cultural heritage." -- provided by publisher.

Subjects: Jewish art and symbolism; Jewish art objects; Jewish art; Jewish arts; Jewish textile fabrics; Judaism;

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William Morris: his life, work, and friends. / by Henderson, Philip,1906-1977.(CARDINAL)126750;

Bibliographical references included in "Notes and sources" (pages 370-379)Part one: Romance, 1834-1876. Walthamstow to Marlborough, 1834-1852 ; Oxford : Ruskin, Rossetti and Pre-Raphaelitism, 1853-1856 ; Red Lion Square : the Oxford Union, 'Iseult' and 'Guenevere', `856-1859 ; Red House : Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. fine art workmen, 1859-1865 ; Queen Square : 'of utter love defeated utterly', 1865-1871 ; Kelmscott and Iceland, 1871-1875 ; Wallpapers, textiles, embroidery : 'Sigurd the Volsung' -- Part two: Commitment, 1876-1890. The Anti-Turk campaign, Kelmscott House, visits to Italy, experiments in weaving, 1876-1879 ; Architecture and the arts of life ; Hammersmith, Kelmscott, Merton Abbey, 1879-1883 ; The Social Democratic Federation, 1883-1884 ; The Socialist League, 1885-1887 ; 'A dream of John Ball' : 'The Odyssey', Bloody Sunday and the end of the Socialist League, 1887-1890 -- Part three: Utopia. 'News from Nowhere' : the Kelmscott Press, 1890-1893 ; Last years, 1894-1896.On May 24, 1834, was born one of the most influential, enigmatic and memorable of Victorians: William Morris, poet, designer, socialist. Considered so much a part of Victorian life, only now are his genius and vision finding fulfillment in our own turbulent era. As Allan Temko observes in his Foreword, "It has been in America that his vision of a new physical order of civilization has come closest to fulfillment." Here, in his long-awaited, definitive biography, the editor of the Morris family letters presents the first full-length portrait of Morris since Mackail's heavily censored "official" biography of 1899. Historian and critic Philip Henderson is the first to make full use of much new material only recently made available. At Oxford, Morris, the son of a successful Welsh businessman, met the highly talented group that were to become lifelong friends and collaborators: Edward Burne-Jones, Cormell Price, Charles Faulkner, Philip Webb. It was in the medieval town of Oxford, too, that Morris developed two of the devotions that were to dominate his life: passionate commitment to the social and artistic ideals he saw in medieval culture, and friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who was to be mentor, rival and--ultimately--bête noire. Henderson traces Morris' development from those early, colorful, brightly optimistic days into the extraordinary later years--when he was "working" poet, architect, decorator, fabric designer, weaver, dyer, embroiderer, and printer, the guiding spirit of "The Firm" of Morris and his associates, as well as passionate political activist, lecturer, and conservationist. He was one of the most influential men in England in both the arts and politics--truly, as Wylie Sypher has called him, "the Leonardo of the Victorians." Henderson at last explains the riddle of Morris' tragic marriage, separating the private torment from the confused public image. He also reveals in rich detail how William Morris carved out his important place in history, through an astonishing variety of accomplishments. The reader--even one well acquainted with Morris' work-- may be surprised to discover just how much Morris has contributed, for here at last, as Temko observes, emerges "a protean figure ... rising from the sea of Victorian confusion to confront our disruptive age, [which] Morris foretold with particular relevance for contemporary America." --Adapted from dust jacket.

Subjects: Biographies.; Morris, William, 1834-1896.; Morris, William, 1834-1896; Authors, English; Designers; Medievalism; Medievalists; Middle Ages in art.; Middle Ages in literature.; Socialists;

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