Fashionable traditions : Asian handmade textiles in motion /
Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian, handmade textile production and consumption. Contributors to this collection reveal the entangled relationships between local artisans, external interventions and consumers to offer a vivid account of the socioeconomic, political and cult...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2020].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Asian handmade textiles as fashionable traditions / Ayami Nakatani
- Part 1. Fashion Dynamics in Tradition: 1. Ikat patterns in Flores, Indonesia, and the global fashion trajectory / Willemijn de Jong ; 2. "New Style" of ethnic clothing: Dress between tradition and fashion among the Hmong in Yunnan, China / Chie Miyawaki ; 3. The pashmina shawl: Continuity and transformation from Ladakh to Kashmir / Monisha Ahmed
- Part 2. Politics of Heritage and Beyond: 4. Listing cultures: Politics of boundaries and heritagization of handwoven textiles in Indonesia / Ayami Nakatani ; 5. Between culture and technology: Theme saris and the graphic representation of heritage in Tamil Nadu, India / Aarti Kawlra ; 6. "Heritagization" as a double-edged sword: The dilemma of Nishijin silk weaving in Kyoto, Japan / Okpyo Moon ; 7. Inheriting weaving knowledge in depopulated communities: Conservation of wisteria fiber textiles in Kyoto, Japan / Miwa Kanetani
- Part 3. Contested Valorization and the Role of Mediators: 8. Branding Tsumugi kimono in Japan: Kimono magazines as mediators between consumers and the "Mingei" movement / Seiko Sugimoto ; 9. "Crafts" to "Art": A trajectory of aboriginal women's weavings in Arnhem Land, Australia / Sachiko Kubota ; 10. Translocal ikat in contemporary Bali, Indonesia: Imagining heritage, imagining modernities in ikat production and marketing / Susan Rodgers
- Part 4. Ambivalent Encounters with Global Consumers: 11. Embroidering development: The Mutwa and Rann Utsav in Kutch, India / Michele A. Hardy ; 12. Strategic choices of techniques: Dyed and printed textiles for goddess rituals in Gujarat, Western India / Yoko Ueba ; 13. Patchworking in tradition: The trends of fashionable carpets from Turkey / Ulara Tamura ; 14. What do handwoven textiles do? Constellation of things and the primal history among non-weaving people in Flores, Eastern Indonesia / Eriko Aoki.