The Textile Reader

Name: The Textile Reader
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781350239845
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The Textile Reader explores textiles as both a cultural practice and an academic field. This second edition offers a diverse compilation of essays, lectures, fiction, poetry, and newly translated articles. Organised around themes of touch, memory, structure, politics, production, and community, it presents a critical and creative examination of textile studies. Edited by Jessica Hemmings, it features contributions from 22 new authors including Maria Fusco and Ursula le Guin, with extended introductions and guidance for further reading, making it an essential resource for students of textiles, craft, and material culture.
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Students and scholars of textiles, craft, and material culture will find this book invaluable. It is suited to those seeking to explore textiles from both critical and creative perspectives, as well as practitioners interested in the cultural and political dimensions of textile work.

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Addressing textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and field of scholarly research, The Textile Reader introduces students to the key issues essential to the exploration of the textile from both a critical and a creative perspective. The second edition brings together lectures, catalogue essays, academic articles, fiction, and poetry, as well as several articles available in English translation for the first time, to capture the diversity of voices informing textile studies today.

Content is organized around the themes of touch, memory, structure, politics, and production, plus a new section exploring the role of community. With 22 new contributors, this revised edition includes selected work from Maria Fusco, Ursula le Guin, Elaine Igoe, Faith Ringgold, and T'ai Smith. Extended introductions and annotated suggestions for further reading by the editor, Jessica Hemmings, make the second edition an invaluable resource to students of textiles, craft, and material culture.

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This Reader is described as a thoughtful interrogation of textile studies, serving as a companion for future developments in the discipline rather than just a collection of texts. Reviewers appreciate the well-chosen and engaging selection, valuing how it treats diverse writing styles equally and opens out the genres within textile discourse. It is recognised as a key resource for understanding and challenging perceptions of textile practice's status. Overall, it is recommended as an ideal foundational text for a broad overview of the field.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350239845

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 February 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

Edited by Professor Jessica Hemmings

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 820g

Pages: 372

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Jessica Hemmings is Professor of Craft at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is Visiting Professor with the Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary (2022), the Rita Bolland Fellow at the Research Centre for Material Culture, the Netherlands (2020–2023 and a member of the editorial boards of Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture and Craft Research. Jessica is the author of Yvonne Vera: the Voice of Cloth (2008), Warp & Weft (Bloomsbury, 2012), and the editor of In the Loop: Knitting Now (2012) and Cultural Threads (Bloomsbury, 2014).