The Textile Reader (Paperback, 2 ed)

Introduction 1. Touch 1. Victoria Mitchell (1997) "Textiles, Text and Techne" 2. T'ai Smith (2014) "The Haptics of Optics: Weaving and Photography" (excerpt) 3. Elaine Igoe (2010) "The Tacit-Turn: textile design in design research" 4. Pennina Barnett (1999) "Folds, Fragments, Surfaces: towards a poetics of cloth" 5. Catherine Harper (2005) "Meditation on Translation and Seduction" 6. Isak Dinesen (1957) "The Blank Page" 7. Birgitta Nordstro¨m (2019) "How do you Footnote a Smile? One Dialog about Two Extremes of Textile Research" 2. Memory 8. Jenni Sorkin (2000) "Stain: On Cloth, Stigma, and Shame" 9. Isabel Gonzalez (2013/2021) "Claiming the Right to Memory, Stitch by Stitch. The experience of the Costurero Tejedoras por la Memoria de Sonson (the Sonson Memory Sewing Group)" 10. Marit Paasche (2019) Hannah Ryggen: Threads of Defiance (excerpt) 11. Roger Hutchinson (2011) The Silent Weaver (excerpt) 12. Faith Ringgold (2019) "Interview Faith Ringgold and Hans Ulrich Obrist" (excerpt) 13. Sue Prichard (2005) "Collecting the Contemporary: Love Will Decide What Is Kept and Science Will Decide How It Is Kept" 14. Sarah Scaturro (2020) "(Im)mortal Fashion: Iris van Herpen's 'Skeleton' Dress" 15. Takahashi Mizuki (2019) "Response 2: in the case of Hong Kong" 3. Structure 16. Gottfried Semper (1851/1989) "The Four Elements of Architecture" (excerpt) 17. Philip Beesley (1999) "Reflexive Textile" 18. Judith Raum (2017) "Otti Berger (voice-over for the video: Discussion of Material)" (excerpt) 19. Catherine M. Zegher (1997) "Ouvrage: Knot a Not, Notes as Knots" 20. Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari (1987) "1440 The Smooth & the Striated" (excerpt) 21. Sabrina Gschwandtner (2008) "Knitting Is." 22. Kate Goldsworthy, Rebecca Earley and Kay Politowicz (2019) "Circular Speeds: A Review of Fast & Slow Sustainable Design Approaches for Fashion & Textile Applications" 4. Politics 23. James Fenimore Cooper (1843) Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief (excerpt) 24. Arthur C. Danto (2006) "Weaving as Metaphor and Model for Political Thought" 25. Sarat Maharaj (1991) "Arachne's Genre: Towards Intercultural Studies in Textiles" 26. Susan S. Bean (1989) "Gandhi and Khadi, the Fabric of Indian Independence" 27. Pamela Johnson (2011) "100% Cotton" 28. Galina Kareva (2011/2021) "Ivanovo's Agitprop Textiles: Design and Inscriptions" 29. Elisa Auther (2008) "Fiber Art and the Hierarchy of Art and Craft, 1960-80" 30. Julia Bryan-Wilson (2017) FRAY (excerpt) 31. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892) The Yellow Wallpaper (excerpt) 5. Production 32. Roger MacDougall (1951) "The Man in the White Suit" (excerpt) 33. Maria Fusco (2018) "machine oil smells sweet (piecework)" 34. Melanie Miller (2007) "The Romance of Modern Manufacture: A Brief History of Embroidered Embellishment" 35. Sadie Plant (1997) Zeroes and Ones: digital women and the new technoculture (excerpt) 36. Ele Carpenter (2010) "Open Source Embroidery: Curatorial Facilitation Of Material Networks" 37. Boatema Boateng (2011) The Copyright Thing Doesn't Work Here: Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana (excerpt) 38. Sarah Rhodes (2015) "Contemporary textile imagery in Southern Africa: a question of ownership" 39. Yosi Anaya (2016/2021) "Heneque´n, A Green Fiber with a Complex History in Yucatan" 6. Community 40. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) The Scarlet Letter (excerpt) 41. Joseph McBrinn (2021) Queering Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework (excerpt) 42. Jools Gilson (2012) "Navigation, Nuance and half/angel's Knitting Map: A series of navigational directions." 43. Rose Sinclair (2020) "Tracing Back to Trace Forwards: What does it mean/take to be a Black textile designer" 44. Alice Walker (1973) "Everyday Use" 45. Ursula le Guin (1984) "The Trouble with the Cotton People" (excerpt)