Chinese patchwork : ancient origins, new expressions /

Patchwork has a long history in China, tracing its roots back almost two thousand years to the arrival of Buddhism in the region. Across millennia, a thread can be traced from spiritual practitioners embracing patchwork textiles to their use in secular culture, eventually leading to a form of functi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berliner, Nancy (Author)
Other Authors: Terjanian, Pierre (writer of foreword.), Conner, Lois (Photographer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2025.
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Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword / Pierre Terjanian
  • Preface / Dorothy Ko
  • Stumbling onto beauty
  • Patchwork and piety
  • Beyond the monastery
  • New times, new meanings
  • Patchworks in place / photographs by Lois Conner
  • Patterns and improvisations
  • Picking up the pieces.