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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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.