Material choices : refashioning bast and leaf fibers in Asia and the Pacific
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Material choices : refashioning bast and leaf fibers in Asia and the Pacific
(Fowler Museum textile series / Marla C.Berns ... [et al.], no. 8)
Fowler Museum at UCLA, c2007
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-180) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Winner of the R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Award sponsored by the Textile Society of America
Asia is renowned for the production of fine handwoven cottons and luxurious silks -- important items of trade for centuries. In addition to these celebrated fabrics, however, weavers throughout the region produced cloth from ramie, hemp, pina, and banana fibers (including Philippine abaca and Okinawan ito basho), as well as a number of lesser-known plant fibers. Over the course of the twentieth century, many of these Asian plant fiber weaving traditions became marginalized or hovered on the brink of extinction, given the advent of synthetic fabrics, growing industrialization, and increased international textile trade. As the essays in this book testify, however, they have not vanished altogether. Rather, in recent times weavers have purposefully chosen to pursue various efforts directed at their preservation, revival, or reinvention. In many cases, the production of bast and leaf fiber textiles is now thriving in newly globalized situations.
This volume presents eight essays documenting the current state of bast and leaf fiber weaving traditions in Vietnam, Borneo, Korea, Burma, Okinawa, the Philippines, Japan, and Micronesia. The processes that have nurtured or buffeted attempts to preserve or revive the production of these textiles are examined and abundantly illustrated with color photographs.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Considering Bast and Leaf Fiber Textiles in a Globalized Context / B. Lynne Milgram and Roy W. Hamilton
1) Bast and Leaf Fibers in the Asia-Pacific Region: An Overview / Roy W. Hamilton
2) Hemp Textiles of the Hmong in Vietnam / Tran Thi Thu Thuy
3) Ulap Doyo: Woven Fibers of East Kalimantan / Elizabeth Oley
4) Sambe: Korean Hemp Fabrics / Bu-ja Koh
5) Stemming from the Lotus: Sacred Robes for Buddhist Monks / Sylvia Fraser-Lu and Ma Thanegi
6) Bashofu, The Mingei Movement and the Creation of a New Okinawa / Amanda Meyer Stinchecum
7) Recrafting Tradition and Livelihood: Women and Bast Fiber Textiles in the Upland Philippines / B Lynne Milgram
8) Preserving Echigo Jofu and Nara Sarashi: Issues in Contemporary Bast Fiber Textile Production / Melissa M. Rinne
9) Reviving the Sacred Machi: A Chiefly Weaving from Fais Island, Micronesia / Donald H. Rubenstein and Sophiano Limol
Notes to the Text
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