An authoritative look at a world-renowned collection. Textiles explores the cultural meaning and exquisite workmanship found in the Museum of International Folk Art's vast collection that spans centuries and includes pieces from seventy countries around the world. Handcrafted work in beautiful, vivid colors typifies the clothing, hats, robes, bedding, and shoes that represent the lives and passions of the people who created and used them. Bobbie Sumberg is curator of Textiles and Costume at the Museum of ...
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An authoritative look at a world-renowned collection. Textiles explores the cultural meaning and exquisite workmanship found in the Museum of International Folk Art's vast collection that spans centuries and includes pieces from seventy countries around the world. Handcrafted work in beautiful, vivid colors typifies the clothing, hats, robes, bedding, and shoes that represent the lives and passions of the people who created and used them. Bobbie Sumberg is curator of Textiles and Costume at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the coauthor of Sleeping Around: The Bed from Antiquity to Now. For more than fifty years, the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been documenting, collecting, preserving, and interpreting the creative works of traditional artists from cultures throughout the world.
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Addison Doty Photographs. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 4to Very good clean tight boards + text. Lightly worn jacket. No remainder marks. No other. Modest spot top edge not entering book. Wonderful 240 pages most all great color. Wow title for textile titles. Thousand ideas!
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Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Photographs by Addison Doty. First printing. Tall 4to. Color frontispiece photograph. 24o pp. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Printed on coated paper. Original decorated blue cloth binding. This is a tight, fine book in a bright DJ with very small minor wrinkle bottom of front panel else fine.
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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. Book 240 pages. Hardcover. Texts in English. [SIGNED] Warmly inscribed on the title page by the author to the previous owners. There are no further internal markings. Else, the binding is tight, the boards sharp, the dustjacket bright and unblemished. Bound in blue cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Beautifully photographed by Addison Doty.
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New. 1423606507. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--240 pages; 365 color illustrations. --with a bonus offer--