Textile Society of America

 

Date of this Version

1988

Citation

From Textiles as Primary Sources: Proceedings of the First Symposium of the Textile Society of America, Minneapolis Institute of Art, September 16-18, 1988

Comments

Copyright © 1988 by the author(s).

Abstract

Note: This quick copy published volume includes talks prepared by panelists and speakers for the first symposium of the Textile Society of America held at the Minneapolis Institute of Art held September 16-18, 1988. The papers are unedited and have been reproduced as submitted by each author. The speakers were vetted by the 1988 program chair for the Textile Society of America; but the Society takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the submissions printed here.

Copyright remains with each author. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the author, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in review. Students or researchers wishing to cite specific authors are encouraged to contact those individuals, as many of these papers represent work in progress or work which has been committed for publication elsewhere.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication.......... v

In Memorium...... vi

Professional Chronology.......... vii

Introduction.......... xiv

Day One TEXTILES AS PRIMARY SOURCES: Strategies and methodologies for gathering and extracting data.......... 1

Keynote address: Elizabeth Barber Wringing it Dry—Challenges of Prehistoric Textiles.......... 2

Panelists: Milton Sonday The Validity of Studies of Pattern and Structure: Case Histories .......... 12

Clarita Anderson The University of Maryland's Historic Textile Data Base .......... 19

M. M. El-Homossani Creating a Protocol for Reconstructing Weaving Technologies: Early Compound Non-silk Fabrics Found in Egypt .......... 26

Dorothy K. Washburn Analysis of Pattern Structure by Geometric Symmetries.......... 40

Day Two TEXTILES AS PRIMARY SOURCES! Textiles as Cultural Signatures.......... 50

Keynote address: Richard Martin Transmutations of the Tartan: Attributed Meanings to Textile Design .......... 51

Panelists: Peggy S. Gilfoy Theme and Variations: Creative Improvisation in African textiles. .......... 63

Arlene Cooper A French "Kashmir" Shawl in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum .......... 64

H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. The Kings as Gods: Textiles in the Thai State.......... 78

Ann Lane Hedlund Designing Among the Navajo: Ethnoaesthetics in Weaving.......... 86

Sandra A. Niessen Cognitive Cloths: The Indigenous Classification of Batak Textiles. .......... .94

Brief Reports/ Research-in-Progress.......... 104

Suzanne Baizerman Textiles as Primary Sources in the Study of "Boundary Art": Hispanic Textiles of Northern New Mexico .......... 105

Grace Beardsley Piecing in Twill Tapestry Shawls of Persia and Kashmir Ill Virginia Davis The Mexican Jaspe (ikat) Rebozo.......... 117

Lillian Elliott Crepe .......... 122

Lynn Felsher Schumacher & Company Textiles.......... 128

Blenda Femenias Colonial Ecuadorian Yndias and Their Textiles.......... 130

Abby Sue Fisher Manila Galleon Trade Textiles: Cross-cultural Influences on New World Dress .......... 131

Mary Frame Orientation and Symmetry: The Structuring of Pattern Repeats in the Paracas Necropolis Embroideries .......... 136

Beverley Gordon "Little Trifles": Understanding Victorian Fancywork .......... 139

Susan Anderson Hay A World of Costume and Textiles: A Handbook to the Collections at the Rhode Island School of Design .......... 144

Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff Techniques and Production Complexity of Mississippian Period Textile from Spiro, Oklahoma.......... 145

Louise Mackie, Lotus Stack and Frieda Sorber Traditional Textiles in Cultural Contexts: International Research and Video Documentation .......... 151

Linda Welters and Linda Tepfenhart Goddess Imagery in Greek Folk Costume .......... 153

Carol D. Westfall Feltmaking .......... 157

Laurel Elizabeth Wilson The Cornett Family Quilts .......... 164

Index to Authors..........165

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