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Author Gillow, John.
Title African textiles : colour and creativity across a continent / John Gillow.
Publication Info. New York : Thames & Hudson, 2016.
Open Library Cover
Location Call No. Status
 Stack 12  746 G    IN LIBRARY
Edition Compact edition.
Description 240 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Note Originally published: 2003.
"With 585 illustrations, 572 in color."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Diversity of African textiles -- West Africa -- Introduction -- Stripweaves -- The Tripod loom stripweaves of Sierra Leone and Liberia -- Ashanti stripweaves -- Ewe stripweaves -- Djerma weaving of Niger and Burkina-Faso -- Woolen stripweaves of the Niger bend -- Nigerian horizontal-loom weaving -- Yoruba lace weave -- Nigerian women's vertical looms -- The Supplementary weft cloths of Ijebu-Ode and Akwete -- Tie and dye -- Nigerian tie and dye -- Tie and dye of the Dida, Ivory Coast -- Stitched resist -- Yoruba stitched resist -- Machine-stitched resist -- Yoruba and Bauleʹ warp ikat -- Nigerian starch-resist by hand -- Stencilled starch-resist -- Wax resist -- Mali mud cloths -- Adinkra stamped cloths of Ghana -- Stamped, stencilled and dyed clothing from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Mali -- Fante flags from Ghana -- Painted calligraphy cloths and amulets -- Embroidered robes of the Hausa and the Nupe -- Yoruba beadwork -- North Africa -- Introduction -- Berber vertical looms -- Ground weaves -- Henna-dyed Anti-atlas woollens -- Algerian Berber weaves -- Berber wool and cotton weaves of Tunisia -- Horizontal loom urban weaves -- Pit-looms of Egypt -- Tapestry weaves of Egypt and Morocco -- The Lampas weaves of Fez and Tetouan -- Moroccan tie and dye -- South Tunisian tie and dye -- Mediterranean-influenced urban embroidery -- Ottoman-influenced urban embroidery -- Tunisian-influenced urban embroidery -- Tunisian metal-thread embroidery -- The Embroidery of Siwa Oasis, Egypt -- Egyptian appliqueʹ -- Assyut silvered work on net, Egypt -- East Africa -- Introduction -- The Cotton shawls of Ethiopia -- Ethiopian embroidery -- Leather, shell and beadwork -- Bark cloth of Uganda -- Kangas and kikois -- Central Africa -- Introduction -- Cameroon raphia weaving -- Ndop resist-dyed cloth of grasslands Cameroon -- Kuba raphia weaving in the Congo -- Kuba appliqueʹd and embroidered skirts -- Shoowa cut-pile embroidery, the Congo -- Tied and stitched-resist textiles of the Kuba, the Congo -- Pygmy and Kuba bark cloth, the Congo -- Bead and shell work of the Congo and Cameroon -- Crocheted hats from Cameroon -- Feathered hats of Cameroon -- Southern Africa -- Introduction -- Zulu beadwork -- Ndebele beadwork -- Xhosa beadwork -- Madagascan raphia -- Madagascan silk -- Glossary -- Museum Collections.
Subject Textile fabrics -- Africa -- Catalogs.
Textile crafts -- Africa -- Catalogs.
Art, African -- 21st century -- Catalogs.
Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects -- Catalogs.
Decoration and ornament -- Africa -- Catalogs.
Handicraft -- Africa -- Catalogs.
Added Title African textiles, color and creativity across a continent
ISBN 9780500292211 (pbk.)
0500292213 (pbk.)