Published on the occasion of Making & unmaking, curated by Duro Olowu, 19 June - 18 September 2016, at Camden Arts Centre. Claire Wellesley-Smith introduces a range of ways in which you can slow your textile work down, including: Using simple techniques inspired by traditional practice (including hand-stitch rhythms) Reusing and re-inventing materials (reuse ... The book includes beautiful images of their studios, work and inspiration. Author Katie Treggiden's essays explore the craft's relationship with themes such as emancipation, migration and new technologies. This must-have draft book contains almost 1000 different patterns on more than 25 weave structures. Introductory chapters provide a thorough understanding of how each structure works. Albers in Mexico brings together rarely exhibited photographs, photo-collages, prints and significant paintings from the Homage to the Square and Variants/Adobe series from the Guggenheim Museum collection and the Anni and Josef Albers ... Found inside – Page 1This insightful book draws on primary-source materials such as the couple's letters, personal papers, and archival photographs--many never before published--and demonstrates their conviction that these Prehispanic objects displayed a formal ... Found inside – Page 150To counteract the resulting “barrenness in today's weaving”, Albers advocated a rapprochement ... These, uniquely, combined complicated open-weave patterns, ... This magnificently illustrated work offers a comprehensive view of the textiles and techniques of pre-Columbian Peru. Here are: Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, the architect who streamlined design early in his career and who saw the school as a place for designers to collaborate in an ideal setting . . . a dashing hussar, the ardent young lover of ... This book, a sober, deeply introspective, and quietly thrilling meditation on the flow of time and space and the place of objects within a larger continuum, adumbrates so many of the critical and theoretical concerns of the late twentieth ... This edition contains impeccable reproductions of Albers' famous series, which beautifully illustrate the artist's primary thesis, that the discrepancy between visual information received by the retina and what the mind perceives proves ... Found insideEdited by Brenda Danilowitz, Heinz Liesbrock. Text by Brenda Danilowitz, Jenny Anger, Kiki Gilderhus, et al. Found insideFar less recognized are texts by women in the school’s weaving workshop. In Bauhaus Weaving Theory, T’ai Smith uncovers new significance in the work the Bauhaus weavers did as writers. This book includes a range of texts on weavings associated with craft to off-loom sculptures aligned with mainstream art movements; a provocative investigation into the notion of softness in art; an examination of fiber art and its ... Found inside – Page 167When Anni Albers initially established the weaving curriculum in 1934, ... and read weave patterns, tie knots, calculate warp and weft, dress the loom, ... Mit seinem neuesten Künstlerbuch 'The Shape of Ancient Thought' legt Anselm Kiefer erneut ein Photographiebuch vor. Extensively illustrated, this book offers a fascinating insight into Anni Albers' work and the history of the re-evaluation of ancient skills and techniques in weaving. "Resurrecting the work of gifted craftswomen, too long denied their place as pioneers in their field, Women's Work: Textile Art from the Bauhaus unearths a missing chapter in the story of the most important institution in the history of ... Found insideBy showing how geometric overshot coverlets can be understood in relationship to the global economy and within politicized cultural movements, Falls and Smith demonstrate how these erstwhile domestic, utilitarian objects explode the ... Accompanying a centennial retrospective of her work, this volume contains full-color reproductions of Albers' most important weavings, drapery materials, and wall coverings as well as scores of her highly influential commercial textile ... Found inside – Page 4773... like Jen Bervin and Anni Albers. Albers, a weaver, often used a typewriter to make weaving patterns; Bervin encountered these while doing a residency at ... A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. An experimental approach to the study and teaching of color is comprised of exercises in seeing color action and feeling color relatedness before arriving at color theory. A spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and design Josef - painter, designer, and teacher - and Anni Albers - textile artist and printmaker - are among the twentieth century's ... Published in book form for the first time, a collection of woodcuts, sandblasted glass pictures, and oil paintings offers insight into the late artist's use of abstractions, color, and perception effects, in a volume that shares key ... Spanning a century of artistic output, this stunningly illustrated book traces the people and events that were integral to the shaping of a field of graphic design in the Arab world. Found insideAll-new Inventive Wire Weaving: 20+ Unique Jewelry Designs focuses on the timeless techniques of wire weaving, wrapping, coiling, and capturing, plus texturing metals and wire. A global survey of more than 100 artists, chosen by art-world professionals for their work with threads, stitching, and textiles Celebrating tapestry, embroidery, stitching, textiles, knitting, and knotting as used by visual artists ... This publication brings together six artists and designers working in Mexico at midcentury who expanded the horizons of modernism. Here is the first comprehensive survey of modern craft in the United States. Found insideOutstanding among textile artists -- Theo Moorman is a British weaver who has taught extensively in the United States. "Until quite recently, the work of great women artists was ignored, forgotten, or denied; they were largely left out of museums and histories of art. A long-overdue reassessment of one of the most important and influential woman artists working at midcentury Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a German textile designer, weaver, and printmaker, and among the leading pioneers of 20th-century ... Found insideFray, however, shows that such methods are recruited to often ambivalent ends, leaving textiles very much “in the fray” of debates about feminized labor, protest cultures, and queer identities; the malleability of cloth and fiber means ... Found inside – Page 1This survey of textile fundamentals and methods, written by the foremost textile artist of the 20th century, covers hand weaving and the loom, fundamental construction and draft notation, modified and composite weaves, early techniques of ... This volume illustrates more than 75 key works by Stölzl, accompanied by excerpts drawn from her journals, letters and articles, some of which are published here for the first time. Written by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design. They believed that the highest form of weaving was created expressly for the sun, which they considered the greatest of the celestial powers. Edited by Nicholas Fox Weber and Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi. Essays by Kelly Feeney, Jean-Paul Leclercq and Virginia Gardner Troy. This monograph—published to coincide with the Bauhaus exhibition at the MoMA (November 8, 2009-January 25, 2010)—celebrates the work of twenty women artists who created feverishly in all the teaching, workshop, and production branches ... Bauhaus Textiles unearths the missing chapter in the story of the most important institution in the history of modern design. Found insideChildren move to wool in this session, learning simple weaving techniques ... Show them examples of work by Sheila Hicks, Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers ... Found insideFeaturing the many innovative objects that the couple designed while teaching at the Bauhaus in Germany and after their move to the United States in 1933, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century design. Tactile Sensibility: A Weaving Workbook takes you step-by-step through basic weaving structures and provide inspiration to transform your woven swatches into creative compositions. Found inside – Page 41The second line celebrates the beautifully imperfect nature of the handmade by featuring pattern motifs that echo Anni Albers's weaving, sashiko mending ... Found insideIn addition, the book addresses the way mending leads to a more mindful relationship to fashion and to overall well-being. Kelly Feeney, Jean-Paul Leclercq and Virginia Gardner Troy the greatest of the celestial powers of Peru... Structure works each structure works Weaving Theory, T’ai Smith uncovers new significance in the history modern. 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