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Book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice  Warp Twined Angles Volume One

Download or read book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice Warp Twined Angles Volume One written by Catherine Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please make sure you have your country flag selected in the top right corner of your window to keep postage costs to a minimum!In this fully revised version of the first edition of Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Warp-Twined Angles, you will find all new samples and photography, with each of the 42 drafts reformatted to be clearer and easier to weave from. The drafts from this volume, along with the drafts from Volume Two can also be found in the Combined Edition.The drafts are all unique, with no horizontal or vertical mirror image repeats and each one is accompanied by a clear, colour photograph of how it will look when woven. This book is intended for weavers who know the basic techniques of tablet weaving and would like to learn new drafts. A list of resources is given at the back for those who wish to improve their skills or learn more about the art of tablet weaving.

Book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice  Warp Twined Angles Volume One

Download or read book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice Warp Twined Angles Volume One written by Catherine Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please make sure you have your country flag selected in the top right corner of your window to keep postage costs to a minimum!In this fully revised version of the first edition of Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Warp-Twined Angles, you will find all new samples and photography, with each of the 42 drafts reformatted to be clearer and easier to weave from. The drafts from this volume, along with the drafts from Volume Two can also be found in the Combined Edition.The drafts are all unique, with no horizontal or vertical mirror image repeats and each one is accompanied by a clear, colour photograph of how it will look when woven. This book is intended for weavers who know the basic techniques of tablet weaving and would like to learn new drafts. A list of resources is given at the back for those who wish to improve their skills or learn more about the art of tablet weaving.

Book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice  Warp Twined Angles Combined Edition

Download or read book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice Warp Twined Angles Combined Edition written by Catherine Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please make sure you have your country flag selected in the top right corner of your window to keep postage costs to a minimum!This fully revised edition, combines the 42 drafts of Warp-Twined Angles Volume One and the 65 drafts of Volume Two.The 107 drafts are woven using simple forward and backward turns of pairs of tablets. The drafts are all unique, with no horizontal or vertical mirror image repeats and each one is accompanied by a clear, colour photograph of how it will look when woven. This book is intended for weavers who know the basic techniques of tablet weaving and would like to learn new drafts. A list of resources is given at the back for those who wish to improve their skills or learn more about the art of tablet weaving.

Book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice  Vacant Hole Pinwheels

Download or read book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice Vacant Hole Pinwheels written by Catherine Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vacant-Hole Pinwheels will guide you through the fascinating world of tablet weaving, with 22 patterns adapted from the Hildesheim Cope and a further 29 inspired by it. All 51 patterns are interchangeable and are accompanied by a colour photograph of how they will appear when woven. This book is aimed at weavers who have learned the basic techniques of tablet weaving and would like to learn new patterns, but a list of resources is given at the back for those who wish to improve their skills or learn more about the art of tablet weaving.

Book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice  Warp Twined Angles Volume Two

Download or read book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice Warp Twined Angles Volume Two written by Catherine Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please make sure you have your country flag selected in the top right corner of your window to keep postage costs to a minimum!Volume Two contains an extra 65 drafts and all the drafts in this volume, along with the 42 drafts of Volume One can also be found in the Combined Edition. The drafts are all unique, with no horizontal or vertical mirror image repeats and each one is accompanied by a clear, colour photograph of how it will look when woven. This book is intended for weavers who know the basic techniques of tablet weaving and would like to learn new drafts. A list of resources is given at the back for those who wish to improve their skills or learn more about the art of tablet weaving.

Book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice  Warp Twined Angles

Download or read book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice Warp Twined Angles written by Catherine Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Warp-Twined Angles unlock a whole new world of colour, pattern and creativity in your tablet weaving! All 42 patterns of this book are woven using simple forwards and backwards turns of pairs of tablets. The patterns are all unique, with no horizontal or vertical mirror image repeats and each one is accompanied by a clear, colour photograph of how it will look when woven. This book is aimed at weavers who have learned the basic techniques of tablet weaving and would like to learn new patterns. A list of resources is given at the back for those who wish to brush up on their skills or learn more about the art of tablet weaving.

Book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice  Double Face Inscriptions

Download or read book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice Double Face Inscriptions written by Catherine Weaver and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please make sure you have your country flag selected in the top right corner of your window to keep postage costs to a minimum!Double-Face Inscriptions will guide you through the fascinating world of tablet woven double-face. This book includes drafts for full upper and lower case alphabets, punctuation, ligatures, and Roman numerals, all adapted from the Mainz Psalter of 1457. Every draft is accompanied by a colour photograph of how it will appear when woven. Double-Face Inscriptions is intended for weavers who know the basic techniques of tablet weaving and would like to learn new patterns, but a list of resources is given at the back for those who wish to improve their skills or find out more about the art of tablet weaving.

Book The Techniques of Tablet Weaving

Download or read book The Techniques of Tablet Weaving written by Peter Collingwood and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Techniques of Tablet Weaving was first published in 1982 it sold out almost immediately. Weavers, fiber artists, and collectors, hungry for the vast and carefully organized repository of information it contained, have spent years excitedly sharing dog-eared paperback editions and roughly photocopied excerpts of this one-of-a-kind volume. No commercially published book, before or since, has captured the amount and quality of information and research on the art of tablet weaving (also known as card weaving). Finally, long-deprived cardweaving enthusiasts can own their very own copy of Peter Collingwood's landmark book thanks to this high-quality 2015 reprint, complete with dozens of detailed photographs, pattern examples, and step-by-step instructions for each of the techniques presented. In addition to instructional information, Techniques of Tablet Weaving contains pages of historical context for a variety of weaving techniques with clear and helpful tips on reproducing them precisely, as well as modern variations on the classics.

Book Blindsight

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Watts
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2006-10-03
  • ISBN : 1429955198
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marina Belozerskaya
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2005-10-01
  • ISBN : 0892367857
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Book The Wealth of Networks

Download or read book The Wealth of Networks written by Yochai Benkler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing. The author shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people create and express themselves. He describes the range of legal and policy choices that confront.

Book On Weaving

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anni Albers
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486431925
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book On Weaving written by Anni Albers and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 thread interlacing, interrelation of fiber and construction, tactile sensibility, and design. 9 color illustrations. 112 black-and-white plates.

Book Historical Painting Techniques  Materials  and Studio Practice

Download or read book Historical Painting Techniques Materials and Studio Practice written by Arie Wallert and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1995-08-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Book The Logic of Practice

Download or read book The Logic of Practice written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our usual representations of the opposition between the "civilized" and the "primitive" derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object of study is a particular instance of the relationship between knowing and doing, interpreting and using, symbolic mastery and practical mastery—or between logical logic, armed with all the accumulated instruments of objectification, and the universally pre-logical logic of practice. In this, his fullest statement of a theory of practice, Bourdieu both sets out what might be involved in incorporating one's own standpoint into an investigation and develops his understanding of the powers inherent in the second member of many oppositional pairs—that is, he explicates how the practical concerns of daily life condition the transmission and functioning of social or cultural forms. The first part of the book, "Critique of Theoretical Reason," covers more general questions, such as the objectivization of the generic relationship between social scientific observers and their objects of study, the need to overcome the gulf between subjectivism and objectivism, the interplay between structure and practice (a phenomenon Bourdieu describes via his concept of the habitus), the place of the body, the manipulation of time, varieties of symbolic capital, and modes of domination. The second part of the book, "Practical Logics," develops detailed case studies based on Bourdieu's ethnographic fieldwork in Algeria. These examples touch on kinship patterns, the social construction of domestic space, social categories of perception and classification, and ritualized actions and exchanges. This book develops in full detail the theoretical positions sketched in Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice. It will be especially useful to readers seeking to grasp the subtle concepts central to Bourdieu's theory, to theorists interested in his points of departure from structuralism (especially fom Lévi-Strauss), and to critics eager to understand what role his theory gives to human agency. It also reveals Bourdieu to be an anthropological theorist of considerable originality and power.

Book Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences

Download or read book Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences written by Kristin Luker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You might think that dancing doesn’t have a lot to do with social research, and doing social research is probably why you picked this book up in the first place. But trust me. Salsa dancing is a practice as well as a metaphor for a kind of research that will make your life easier and better.” Savvy, witty, and sensible, this unique book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project, and an astute introduction to the neglected history and changeable philosophy of modern social science. In this volume, Kristin Luker guides novice researchers in: knowing the difference between an area of interest and a research topic; defining the relevant parts of a potentially infinite research literature; mastering sampling, operationalization, and generalization; understanding which research methods best answer your questions; beating writer’s block. Most important, she shows how friendships, non-academic interests, and even salsa dancing can make for a better researcher. “You know about setting the kitchen timer and writing for only an hour, or only 15 minutes if you are feeling particularly anxious. I wrote a fairly large part of this book feeling exactly like that. If I can write an entire book 15 minutes at a time, so can you.”

Book Bauhaus Weaving Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : T’ai Smith
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2014-11-01
  • ISBN : 1452943222
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Bauhaus Weaving Theory written by T’ai Smith and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bauhaus school in Germany has long been understood through the writings of its founding director, Walter Gropius, and well-known artists who taught there such as Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. Far 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. From colorful, expressionist tapestries to the invention of soundproofing and light-reflective fabric, the workshop’s innovative creations influenced a modernist theory of weaving. In the first careful examination of the writings of Bauhaus weavers, including Anni Albers, Gunta Stözl, and Otti Berger, Smith details how these women challenged assumptions about the feminine nature of their craft. As they harnessed the vocabulary of other disciplines like painting, architecture, and photography, Smith argues, the weavers resisted modernist thinking about distinct media. In parsing texts about tapestries and functional textiles, the vital role these women played in debates about medium in the twentieth century and a nuanced history of the Bauhaus comes to light. Bauhaus Weaving Theory deftly reframes the Bauhaus weaving workshop as central to theoretical inquiry at the school. Putting questions of how value and legitimacy are established in the art world into dialogue with the limits of modernism, Smith confronts the belief that the crafts are manual and technical but never intellectual arts.

Book Telematic Embrace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roy Ascott
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780520218031
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Telematic Embrace written by Roy Ascott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Telematic Embrace combines a provocative collection of writings from 1964 to the present by the preeminent artist and art theoretician Roy Ascott, with a critical essay by Edward Shanken that situates Ascott's work within a history of ideas in art, technology, and philosophy.