African Textiles

Name: African Textiles
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9780500292211
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Colour and Creativity Across a Continent

By John Gillow

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African Textiles offers a comprehensive visual survey of traditional, handcrafted textiles across the entire African continent. Featuring over 570 vibrant colour photographs, the book explores the diverse techniques, looms, materials, and dyes unique to West, North, East, Central, and Southern Africa. It also examines the cultural, religious, and social influences shaping textile production, including trade, fashion, and women's evolving roles. With helpful tools like a glossary, map, and guides to public collections, this volume celebrates the rich artistry of African textiles.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book is ideal for artists, crafters, historians, and anyone interested in African culture and traditional textile arts.

With a survey of African textiles on the market, this book illustrates over 570 spectacular colour photographs the traditional, hand crafted, indigenous textiles of the whole continent. It provides a wealth of information on the rich art of African textiles.

A lavishly illustrated and encyclopaedic, continent-wide survey of the textile traditions of Africa

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This book comprehensively surveys and celebrates, in over 570 spectacular colour photographs, the traditional, handcrafted, indigenous textiles of the entire continent of Africa.

Covering, region by region, the handmade textiles of West, North, East, Central, and Southern Africa, African Textiles outlines the vast array of techniques used, as well as the different types of loom, materials, and dyes that help to create these sumptuous textiles. In addition, the important influences on textile production—religion, culture, trade, tradition, fashion, and the changing role of women—are assessed in each of the different regions of Africa.

With a useful glossary and map, a guide to collections open to the public, and suggestions for further reading, this book provides a wealth of information on the rich art of African textiles.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Craftsman Magazine hails it as "spectacular" and notes its detailed content as valuable to makers of all disciplines. The Textile Directory Online praises the book as "a visual feast" that deepens understanding of Africa's textile crafts.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500292211

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 January 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: 13 Illustrations, black and white; 572 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 277.0mm

Weight: 1220g

Pages: 240

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Arts & Culture John Gillow Non-Fiction

About the Author

John Gillow has spent over thirty years studying, collecting and lecturing on textiles. His books include Arts and Crafts of India (with Ilay Cooper and Barry Dawson), Indian Textiles (with Nicholas Barnard), Traditional Indonesian Textiles, World Textiles (with Bryan Sentance) and African Textiles.