Flowers from Universe textiles of Java
Machine generated contents note: 1.Textiles in Java -- 2.Decorative Processes and Products -- 3.The Island of Java in the Sixteenth Century -- 4.Weaving Myths of Sunda -- 5.Rice-paste Batiks -- 6.Colour Categories: Uncoloured, Light and Dark -- 7.The Compass Rose as a Direction Finder -- 8.Chinese T...
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LM Publishers
2018
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: 1.Textiles in Java -- 2.Decorative Processes and Products -- 3.The Island of Java in the Sixteenth Century -- 4.Weaving Myths of Sunda -- 5.Rice-paste Batiks -- 6.Colour Categories: Uncoloured, Light and Dark -- 7.The Compass Rose as a Direction Finder -- 8.Chinese Traders and Immigrants -- 9.Textiles in Javan History -- 10.Cirebon: an Old Town on the North Coast -- 11.The Stuff of Village Life -- 12.The Principalities 1: Introverts and Extroverts of Central Java -- 13.The Principalities 11: Elite and Vernacular Patterns -- 14.Two Ancient Textiles of Central Java: Tambal and Kain kembangan -- 15.Mountains and Forest, Waterplant and Cosmic Tree -- 16.Milestones in Human Life -- 17.Wives of the Dutch in the Tropics -- 18.Tunggak semi: New Shoots from an Old Trunk. Java?s original textile art is a perfect medium for telling stories from ancient Javanese culture.00'Flowers from Universe. Textiles of Java' is based first and foremost on the memories and associations of Alit Djajasoebrata, who grew up in a close-knit West Javanese family. She frequently came into contact with batik in the form of the highly prized batikked hipcloths, with which her female relatives indirectly expressed their personal attitudes to their surroundings, and distinguished themselves from other women. She learned to associate batik patterns and their colours with social occasions and individual moods and was fascinated by the way women spoke about them. The association of certain textiles with history, mythology and music in Java?s cultures proved to be natural and self-evident |
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| Beschreibung: | 191 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9789460224478 978-94-6022-447-8 9460224474 94-6022-447-4 |