Download or read book Iranian Textiles written by Jennifer Wearden and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumptuous Iranian textiles from the V&A's unrivalled collection are displayed in this beautiful book. A new title in a successful series, Iranian Textiles presents more than 200 examples produced during the first half of the 19th century, with close-up photographs that reveal the unique woven, printed, and embroidered designs.
Download or read book Woven from the Soul Spun from the Heart written by Carol Bier and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first integrated study of the role of textiles in the development of the Persian nation (now Iran) reveals their unique importance to international trade and economics and to the cultural environment. The result of extensive scholastic research, the touring exhibition traces the evolution of the art through the major textile-producing eras, of the Safawid and Kajar dynasties, from the sixteenth to early twentieth century.
Download or read book Islamicate Textiles written by Faegheh Shirazi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to uncover the central roles that textiles play within Muslim-majority communities. This thematically arranged book sheds light on the traditions, rituals and religious practices of these regions, and the ways in which each one incorporates materials and clothing. Drawing on examples including Iranian lion carpets and Arabic keffiyeh, Faegheh Shirazi frames these textiles and totemic items as important cultural signifiers that, together, form a dynamic and fascinating material culture. Like a developing language, this culture expands, bends and develops to suit the needs of new generations and groups across the world. The political significance of Islamicate textiles is also explored: Faegheh Shirazi's writing reveals the fraught relationship between the East – with its sought-after materials and much-valued textiles – and the European countries that purchased and repurposed these goods, and lays bare the historical and contemporary connections between textiles, colonialism, immigration and economics. Dr Shirazi also discusses gender and how textiles and clothing are intimately linked with sexuality and gender identity.
Download or read book The Persian Textile Industry in Historical Perspective 1500 1925 written by Willem Floor and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette étude présente une analyse socio-économique de l'industrie textile en Perse de 1500 à 1925. De nombreux thèmes y sont traités : caractéristiques générales de la production et son évolution, présentation des vêtements féminins et masculins en Perse, les sites de production, les divers types et emplois, la commercialisation et l'évolution du châle, un glossaire des termes techniques concernant tissus et artisanats textiles.
Download or read book Weavings of Nomads in Iran written by Fred Mushkat and published by Artmedia (Acc). This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a rich tradition of hand-woven bands made by the nomadic pastoralists of Iran. They have a large and detailed design vocabulary, and were executed using weaving skills that were not exceeded by any other weaving tradition. No study of nomadic life and weavings in Iran is complete without them. Among Qashqa'i tribal weavers in particular, the warp-faced bands used to attach loads to pack animals were a key symbol of their nomadic life. These bands carry a large repository of motifs that may be a source of archaic design elements. Bands illustrate a connection between and among groups of nomadic pastoralists, as great distances may have separated their ancestors for hundreds of years. Although the overwhelming majority of weavers were illiterate, they possessed a different form of literacy in which they were capable of transferring an image into a woven structure. This is the first book devoted exclusively to these weavings. AUTHORS: Dr Fred Mushkat has been collecting and diligently studying the warp-faced woven bands of Iran since the late 1980s. His work is supplemented by detailed commentary co-written by the socio-cultural anthropologist Professor Lois Beck of Washington University in St. Louis, (the world expert on the Qashqa'i nomads in Southwestern Iran), and Naheed Dareshuri, a Qashqa'i nomadic pastoralist currently living in the United States. The book also includes a contribution by Professor Peter Alford Andrews, the world's foremost authority on the architecture and use of nomadic tents of Eurasia. SELLING POINTS: * This is the first book devoted exclusively to the hand-woven bands made by the nomadic peoples of Iran * The publication features many previously unpublished weavings of great art-historical and anthropological importance 200 colour and 10 b/w images
Download or read book Brief Guide to the Persian Woven Fabrics written by Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Masterpieces of Iranian Rugs and Textiles June 9 September 12 1964 Textile Museum Washington D C written by Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Persian and Indian Textiles from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shahsavan Iranian Rugs and Textiles written by Parviz Tanavoli and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of Textiles from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the 19th Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History Of Textiles written by Kax Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979, this volume acts as a reference for the history textiles. It asks questions on the effect of technology on textiles, how did particular historical periods and locations expand or limit the possibilities for the manufacture of fabrics and how the textile history related to politics and economics, sociology and psychology, art and engineering, anthropology and archaeology, chemistry and physics. Addressing these questions, the author surveys the development of the technical components of fabrics and discusses the textiles of selected places and times. She uses prose, drawings and more than 130 photographs to show how each era of textile production reflects its age. This book is designed to serve as a college text and as a reference work for museum researchers. With sections including illustrations and diagrams; key terminology; spinning wool; spinning and raw materials; single ply and cord and fabric construction.
Download or read book Cotton Climate and Camels in Early Islamic Iran written by Richard W. Bulliet and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boom in the production and export of cotton made Iran the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet in the eleventh century, Iran's impressive agricultural economy entered a steep decline, bringing the country's primacy to an end. Richard W. Bulliet advances several provocative theses to explain these hitherto unrecognized historical events. According to Bulliet, the boom in cotton production directly paralleled the spread of Islam, and Iran's agricultural decline stemmed from a significant cooling of the climate that lasted for over a century. The latter phenomenon also prompted Turkish nomadic tribes to enter Iran for the first time, establishing a political dominance that would last for centuries. Substantiating his argument with innovative quantitative research and recent scientific discoveries, Bulliet first establishes the relationship between Iran's cotton industry and Islam and then outlines the evidence for what he terms the "Big Chill." Turning to the story of the Turks, he focuses on the lucrative but temperature-sensitive industry of cross-breeding one-humped and two-humped camels. He concludes that this unusual concatenation of events had a profound and long-lasting impact not just on the history of Iran but on the development of world affairs in general.
Download or read book Iran written by Patricia L. Baker and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2014 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous edition: published as by Patricia L. Baker and Hilary Smith. 2009.
Download or read book Beauty and Fashion written by Massoume Price and published by . This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iran written by Homa Katouzian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society against the state; the main objective of the first being to establish lawful government to make modernisation possible, and the second, to overthrow the absolute and arbitrary state, though this time mainly under the banner of religion and Marxism-Leninism and anti-Westernism. Neither of them succeeded in their lofty ideals for reasons that are explained and analysed within. The author also offers a detailed description of Iran’s short-term society, examining the political and intellectual lives of two of the most remarkable intellectuals-cum-politicians of the twentieth century. This book provides an overview of modern Persian literature, both poetry and prose, and discusses the works of three of the most remarkable Persian poets and writers of the period. It considers classical Persian literature through the great variety of its form and substance, and neo-classical literary developments in the nineteenth century, covering the whole history of Persian literature. This is crowned in the last chapter by the love poetry of one of the greatest Persian poets. Iran will be of interest to students and scholars of Iranian studies and Middle East Politics.
Download or read book Iran written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1963- include the Director's report, 1961/62-
Download or read book Persian Textiles and Their Technique from the Sixth to the Eighteenth Centuries written by Nancy Andrews Reath and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
