British textiles / Linda Parry, Wendy Heffoed, Ngozi Ikoku.
By: Parry, Linda
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Contributor(s): Victoria and Albert Museum.
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BookPublisher: New York, NY : Abrams, 2010Description: 495 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 9781851776184 .Subject(s): Textile fabrics -- Great Britain -- History | Textile design -- Great Britain -- HistoryDDC classification: 746.0941 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Reference | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 746.0941 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 00195405 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Exquisite . . . superb series."-- Craft s
"Contains artifacts of such blazing beauty, such powerful perfection that they need no elaboration."-- Country Life
This superbly illustrated book draws on highlights from the V&A's fabulous collection of woven, printed, and embroidered textiles and their designs. Based on the V&A's British Textiles series, with a new introduction, this comprehensive compendium brings together a visual history of British fabrics with over 1,000 lush color images. The fabrics showcase the amazing creative abilities of professional and amateur designers over three centuries. International experts introduce each period and the textiles produced in it, with a short text followed by a plate section for each theme. The book includes technical and artistic innovations and provides an invaluable reading list, glossary of terms, and biographies of the chief figures of the era.
Previous edition published as: British textile design in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Highlights works from the Victoria and Albert Museum textile collection.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-495)
The textile collection: a brief overview / Linda Parry -- Woven textile design in Britain: late 17th century to 1750 / Natalie Rothstein -- Design for printed textiles in England: 1750 to 1850 / Wendy Hefford -- Woven textile design in Britain: 1750 to 1850 / Natalie Rothstein -- Victorian to art nouveau textiles: 1850 to 1900 / Linda Parry -- British textiles: 1900-to 1937 / Valerie Mendes -- British textile design: 1940 to the present / Ngozi Ikoku.