Textile Society of America
Date of this Version
1996
Document Type
Article
Citation
Published in Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles: Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, 1996. (Minneapolis, 1997).
Abstract
Contents
Preface
Panel: Sacred Textile Banners of Japan
Sacred Textile Banners of Japan Monica Bethe
Braids on Early Japanese Banners Masako Kinoshita
From Secular Garment to Sacred Object: Kosode Refashioned into Buddhist Altar Cloths and Banners Nobuhiko Maruyama
Offertory Banners from Rural Japan: Echigo-Chijimi Weaving and Worship Sharon Sadako Takeda
Session 1
The Tenjukoku Shucho and the Asuka Period Funerary Practices Maria del Rosario Pradel
The Reproduction and Ceremonial Offering of Sacred Textiles and Apparel in Ise Jingu's Shikinen Sengu (abstract only) Rosemarie Bernard
Panel: The Sacred Drapo of Haitian Vodou: Antecedent, Tradition and Metamorphoses
Haitian Drapo Vodou: Imagery, Ritual and Perception Susan Elizabeth Tselos
Some Breton and Muslim Antecedents of Voudou Drapo LeGrace Benson
For the Flower of Ginen: The Artistry of Clotaire Bazile, a Haitian Vodou Flagmaker Anna Wexler
Session 2
Laundry: Ritual as Habitual Use Margo Mensing
Ceremonial Textiles of the Mardi Gras Indians Ann M DuPont
Video: Between Light and Shadow (abstract) Kathryn Lypke Vigesaa
Session 3
The Ampato Textile Offerings William J Conklin
The Great Cloth Burial at Cahuachi, Nasca Valley, Peru Elena Phipps
Syncretic Cloth, Virgins and Colonization in the Peruvian Andes Karen Michelsen
Textiles of Sacrifice: Aztec Ritual Capes Patricia Rieff Anawalt
Session 4
Manifest Insignificance - The Consecrated Veil of Medieval Religious Women Desiree Koslin
Traditional Textiles in Transylvanian and Danubian Mourning Rituals Joyce Corbett
Beauty Enhances Ritual Jennifer Wearden
Panel: Ritual Cloth as Emblem of Socio-Religious Values in Indonesia
Panel Introduction Rens Heringa
Heirloom and Hierarchy - The Sacred Lawo Butu Cloth of the Lio of Central Flores Willemijn de Jong
Heirloom and Male Ancestors - The Flowered Kain Kembangan of Kerek, East Java Rens Heringa
Heirloom Cloth and Social Organization - The Ceremonial Kain Sandang Gobo of the Minangkabau, West Sumatra Linda Hanssen
Session 5
Maori Weaving: The Intertwining of Spirit, Action and Metaphor Suzanne Mac Aulay and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
Video: Entrance Gates Commission - Maui Arts and Cultural Center (introduction to the video) Pat Hickman
Video: The Traditional Method of Masi Making on the Island of Taveuni, Fiji (abstract) Daniel Roy Hildenbrandt
Video: Threads of Time - Handmade Textiles for Weddings in Fez, Morocco (introduction to the video) Louise W Mackie
Panel: Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles and the Constitution of Value in Africa
The Meaning of Yo rub a Aso Olona Is Far from Water Tight Lisa Aronson
Mourning and Memory: Factory-Printed Textiles and the Baule of Cote D'Ivoire Kathleen E. Bickford
White Robes for Worship: The Umnazaretha of the Nazareth Baptist Church in South Africa Karen H Brown
Divine Worth: Weaving and the Ancestors in Highland Madagascar Rebecca L. Green
Session 6
Cloth and the Corpse in Ebira John Picton
Sacred Textiles from an Ancient Nubian Temple Nettie K. Adams
Video: Contemporary Fashions of Traditional Textiles and Clothing in the Gambia (abstract) June Pearson Bland
Sessions 7 and 8
Four Eighteenth-Century Monumental Ethiopian Tablet-Woven Silk Curtains Michael Gervers
Naming and Meaning: Ritual Textiles of the Iban of Sarawak Traude Gavin
(Re)Situating Ceremonial Textiles in Ifugao, Upland Philippines B. Lynne Milgram
Appendix: Textile Society of America's 1996 Governing Board
Comments
Copyright 1996 by the author.