The handbook of textile culture /
Textile culture
edited by Janis Jefferies, Diana Wood Conroy and Hazel Clark.
- xxv, 478 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (colour) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In recent years, the study of textiles and culture has become a dynamic field of scholarship, reflecting new global, material and technological possibilities. This handbook provides a guide to the major strands of critical work around textiles past and present and draws upon the work of artists and designers as well as researchers in textiles studies.