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Embroidering Within Boundaries

Author : Rangina Hamidi
Publisher : Thrums, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780998452302
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Embroidering Within Boundaries written by Rangina Hamidi and published by Thrums, LLC. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years ago, Rangina Hamidi made the decision to dedicate her life to helping rebuild her native Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Taliban had been driven out by American forces following 9/11, but Kandahar was a shambles. Tens of thousands of women, widowed by years of conflict, struggled to support themselves and their families. Rangina's decision was to start an entrepreneurial enterprise, using the exquisite traditional embroidery of Kandahar, to help women work within the cultural boundaries of Pashtunwali to earn their living and to find a degree of self-determination. Thus Kandahar Treasure was born. This book, written with global scholar Mary Littrell, traces the converging paths of traditional khamak embroidery, the 400 brave women who have found in it a way to build their lives, and the tenuous state of their efforts as the fate of Kandahar hangs in the balance. The late, award-winning photojournalist Paula Lerner was dedicated to telling the stories of women in Afghanistan. Her remarkable images throughout the book show Afghan women's profound struggle, strength, and beauty.

Embroidery from Afghanistan

Author : Sheila Paine
Publisher : British museum Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embroidery from Afghanistan written by Sheila Paine and published by British museum Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces and explores textiles from Afghanistan from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the remarkable embroidery of the surrounding regions of Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Baluch, Lakai Uzbek and Turkmen, reflecting the nomadic heritage of the area. This book also examines the impact of political conflict on the creation of embroidery. While women were exempt from schools and employment, embroidery output increased, but since the demise of the Taliban regime, women have enjoyed greater freedoms outside of the home. The author investigates this theme of tradition and change to present a fascinating overview of the topic.

Afghan Embroidery

Author : Bernard Dupaigne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789690101433
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Afghan Embroidery written by Bernard Dupaigne and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Afghan Embroidery

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Afghan Embroidery written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sewing Circles of Herat

Author : Christina Lamb
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060505273
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Sewing Circles of Herat written by Christina Lamb and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one-year-old Christina Lamb left suburban England for Peshawar on the frontier of the Afghan war. Captivated, she spent two years tracking the final stages of the mujaheddin victory over the Soviets, as Afghan friends smuggled her in and out of their country in a variety of guises. Returning to Afghanistan after the attacks on the World Trade Center to report for Britain's Sunday Telegraph, Lamb discovered the people no one else had written about: the abandoned victims of almost a quarter century of war. Among them, the brave women writers of Herat who risked their lives to carry on a literary tradition under the guise of sewing circles; the princess whose palace was surrounded by tanks on the eve of her wedding; the artist who painted out all the people in his works to prevent them from being destroyed by the Taliban; and Khalil Ahmed Hassani, a former Taliban torturer who admitted to breaking the spines of men and then making them stand on their heads. Christina Lamb's evocative reporting brings to life these stories. Her unique perspective on Afghanistan and deep passion for the people she writes about make this the definitive account of the tragic plight of a proud nation.

Order and Disorder

Author : Christopher G. Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977834488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Order and Disorder written by Christopher G. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued in connection with an exhibition held February 26-July 29, 2012, Fowler Museum at UCLA.

Embroidery from Afghanistan

Author : Sheila Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embroidery from Afghanistan written by Sheila Paine and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embroidery from Afghanistan is varied, rich, and sumptuous. This book focuses on over thirty pieces and explores the embroidery of different tribes and their geographical regions. Illustrated in full color and in detail, the textiles included will provide designers at all levels with inspiration for the use of color and pattern in their own designs. In her introduction, Sheila Paine sets the pieces in their social and cultural contexts and investigates the shared traditions of the various tribes. The costumes of men, women, and children are illustrated, as are embroideries for the home and yurt, domestic animals, and precious possessions. Information on decorative techniques, patterning, and stitching is included, together with a technical glossary that supports the main text.

The Afghan Amulet

Author : Sheila Paine
Publisher : Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781845112431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Afghan Amulet written by Sheila Paine and published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrigued by an exquisite and mysterious amulet on an antique dress from Kohistan, 'land of mountains' in Pakistan, Sheila Paine began an epic quest that took her from the peaks of the Himalaya to the shores of Greece. In this, the first part of her journey, she set off alone and undaunted for the wilds of the Hindu Kush, her only possessions a tiny rucksack and a litre of vodka. Over the course of several months she followed endless clues - the patterns on a woman's dress, pendants hanging outside village houses to ward off djinns, scraps of embroidery in a bazaar - that took her to some of the most remote and inhospitable places in the world. She travelled to Makran, in Pakistan, an area closed completely to foreigners, and to Iran, where she was constantly watched by government minders. She was smuggled into Afghanistan by a band of mujahedeen, and then forged on into Iraq and Turkish Kurdistan from Iran, before one final piece of evidence led her to the small town of Razgrad in eastern Bulgaria and news of the amulet she so tirelessly sought

Stumpwork Embroidery

Author : Helen Richman
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785002953
Total Pages : 1059 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Stumpwork Embroidery written by Helen Richman and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 1059 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stumpwork is a highly decorative and imaginative embroidery technique, which typically uses raised and padded stitches that are rich in texture. This practical book explains how to create your own piece of stumpwork embroidery. Beginning with an introduction to the appropriate materials, equipment and tools, it instructs on a wide range of stitches and techniques, and illustrates them with ten delightful projects. It then explains how to design your own piece of stumpwork before advising on finishing, presenting and caring for you work. Written by a leading embroiderer, this beautiful book will inspire and encourage you to try this exciting technique and create your own exquisite designs. Contents include: Practical advice on working with threads, as well as how to stretch and prepare fabrics; Over 900 photographs to guide the reader through a wide range of decorative and raised stitches; Detailed instructions on combining stumpwork with a range of other techniques to create unique designs; Ten projects show how to use the stitches in designs, including stumpwork human figures. This practical guide will be of great interest to embroiderers, designers, theatre designers, interior designers and historians, and is beautifully illustrated with 983 colour photographs.

Fashion Embroidery

Author : Jessica Pile
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849945055
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Fashion Embroidery written by Jessica Pile and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical step-by-step guide to haute couture embroidery covers everything from machine and hand stitching, to tambour beading, goldwork and monogramming. Whether you are interested in adding monogrammed initials to your favourite bathrobe, stitching a flower on your favourite jacket, adding sparkling beads to a new dress or creating a goldwork embellishment, Fashion Embroidery teaches you how to add a unique touch to your clothes. In this beautifully illustrated book, Jessica Pile, the Production Director at Hand & Lock embroidery, explores the intricate techniques used in fashion embroidery. With hand-drawn designs, catwalk photographs and step-by-step guides, this book is perfect for beginners looking to personalise their own clothes, as well as more experienced embroiderers who want to apply new techniques to different fabrics. Beginning with an inspirational overview of the fashion industry, Jessica looks at examples of embroideries and embellishments by a variety of couturiers, including Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Hardy Amies and Burberry. The book then demonstrates the basics of three main techniques – goldwork, tambour beading and embroidery stitches including silk shading, satin and stem stitch. In do-it-yourself projects, Jessica first helpfully explains the basics of materials; she teaches you how to pick the right fabric, what tools to use, where to source materials, what types of wire or beads to use and terminology. Taking influences from existing couture designs, she then shows you how to execute these learned techniques onto your own clothes. This book is perfect for fashion students, textile artists, and those who want a more unique look to their clothes.

Encyclopedia of Embroidery from Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent

Author : Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN 13 : 1350017248
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Embroidery from Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent written by Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood and published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first reference work to describe the history of embroidery throughout Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent from the medieval period through to the present. It offers an authoritative guide to all the major embroidery traditions of the region and a detailed examination of the material, technical, artistic and design dimensions of the subject, including its use by today's fashion designers. For millennia, the peoples of Central Asian, the Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent have migrated and traded along the multiple strands of the Silk Road, both north–south and east–west. This history of contact has found rich expression within the arts and crafts of the region and particularly in the heritage of embroidery which has sat at the heart of the social and cultural lives of these diverse communities. Embroidery has been produced to decorate individuals, their families, their clients, their homes and public spaces and has reflected economic and political changes over time as well as social, religious and artistic contexts. Generously illustrated with 500 images (350 in colour) of clothes, accessories, and examples of decorated soft furnishings such as cushions, bed linen, curtains, floor coverings and wall hangings, the Encyclopedia is an essential resource for students and scholars of the subject.

Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery

Author : Sharon Boggon
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1617458783
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery written by Sharon Boggon and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find endless inspiration with this photo guide to embroidery stitches. Discover the 120 hand-embroidery stitches that every embroiderer should have in their stitching arsenal, with clear, step-by-step photos you can come back to time and again! Contemporary needlework teacher Sharon Boggon’s forward-thinking ideas will help you view hand embroidery through a vibrant new lens. Beginners and seasoned embroiderers will gain the confidence to create new patterns by playing with the stitches—manipulating the height and width, making asymmetrical loops, stacking up designs, or filling multiple rows with the same stitch. With so many creative variations and the author’s gorgeous samplers, you’ll be inspired to incorporate new techniques in your own crazy quilts and modern projects. Essential guide to surface embroidery! 120 contemporary stitches, including left-hand stitches, with step-by-step photos See how tiny tweaks to each stitch can take your needlework to unexpected places Play up the possibilities with modern fill patterns, asymmetry, luscious texture, and crazy quilting

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

Author : Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062074954
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Dressmaker of Khair Khana written by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC News, that People magazine called “a transporting, enlightening book” tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Afghanistan Former ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila Sidiqi and other women of Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s fearful rise to power. In what Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea, calls “one of the most inspiring books I have ever read,” Lemmon recounts with novelistic vividness the true story of a fearless young woman who not only reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to save her family but, in the face of ferocious opposition, brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn Kabul.

Palestinian Embroidery Motifs

Author : Margarita Skinner
Publisher : Rimal Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palestinian Embroidery Motifs written by Margarita Skinner and published by Rimal Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually stunning study in the ethnography of Palestinian embroidery motifs is a lasting source inspiration.

Embroidered Visions

Author : Sheila Paine (Expert on textiles)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780902793507
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Embroidered Visions written by Sheila Paine (Expert on textiles) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a selection of photographs by embroidery specialist Sheila Paine taken during her travels across four continents and twenty-six countries, from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Over three thousand of her photographs are now held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, in addition to a varied collection of her textiles"--Inside front cover flap.

Embroidery from Palestine

Author : Shelagh Weir
Publisher : British museum Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embroidery from Palestine written by Shelagh Weir and published by British museum Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the intricate patterns and diverse designs of 19th and early 20th century Palestinian village costumes. Palestinian dresses, jackets, head-veils and head-dresses are made from a variety of beautiful fabrics: handwoven cotton or linen, left natural or dyed indigo-blue; and brightly coloured silks, taffetas, velvet and wool. Embroidery from Palestine describes and illustrates diverse decorative techniques and patterns against the backdrop of traditional Palestinian village life and its ceremonies. The examples are drawn from the British Museum's outstanding collection, one of the best in the world, and include some rare and exceptionally beautiful garments.

Chikankari

Author : Paola Manfredi
Publisher : Niyogi Books
ISBN 13 : 9789385285530
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Chikankari written by Paola Manfredi and published by Niyogi Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chikankari is one of the finest traditional embroideries of India, a symbol of Lucknawi culture and elegant courts of the nawabs of Awadh. Chikankari appeared in Lucknow in the late 18th century and its exquisite aesthetic and craftsmanship has sustained the tradition to this day, through changing patronage and market trends. Chikankari is not just about embroidery. Its legendary finesse is based on a creative blend of the delicate embroidery with very fine dressmaking and sewing techniques. This beautifully illustrated book showcases unknown gems from personal and public collections, and brings to life the history of this unique craft tradition. The various chapters describe the mysterious origins of the craft, the range of costumes, the inspirations behind it motifs, the time-honoured elaborate production process, and the bewildering array of stitches that raised this craft to a truly exceptional art form.