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Textiles of Timor, island in the woven sea /

"This book examines the textile traditions across Timor, delineating approximately twenty different style areas. It explores the uniqueness of these regional styles as well as the borrowings among them. Emphasis is placed on the use of various weaving techniques, and the book is abundantly illu...

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Other Authors: Hamilton, Roy W. (Editor), Barrkman, Joanna (Editor), Cunningham, A. B., Barnes, Ruth, 1947-, Kadati, Willy Daos, Nabholz-Kartaschoff, Marie-Louise
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : Fowler Museum at UCLA, [2014]
Subjects:
Textile fabrics > Timor Island.
Textile crafts > Timor Island.
Weavers > Timor Island.
ISBN:9780984755080
098475508X
Table of Contents:
  • Culture, history, and weaving in Timor / Roy W. Hamilton
  • Textile style areas in Timor / Roy W. Hamilton and Joanna Barrkman with a contribution by Rosália Elisa Madeira Soares
  • Plants as the pivot: the ethnobotany of Timorese textiles / Anthony B. Cunningham, Willy Daos Kadati, Jose Ximenes, Jean Howe, I Made Maduarta, and William Ingram
  • Early textiles from Timor / Ruth Barnes
  • Textiles of Oecusse: a personal account / Willy Daos Kadati with Anne Finch
  • "She comes with a spindle in her hand": Bibioki textiles / Joanna Barrkman
  • Malaka regency: cloth of the plain, cloth of the hills / Roy Hamilton and Yohannes Nahak Taromi
  • Textiles of Suai Loro and Camenac̜a / Joanna Barrkman
  • Continuity and change in the Kemak textiles of Marobo / Joanna Barrkman
  • Alfred Bühler's collection from Baguia at the Museum der Kulturen, Basel / Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff
  • Loss and return: personal stories of Fataluku weavers / Jill Forshee.

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