Fashionable Traditions: Asian Handmade Textiles in Motion

by Ayami Nakatani

Book Overview

Textiles play a decisive role in history: attire not only indicates status, gender, ethnicity, and religion but illustrates how such boundaries are continuously being negotiated, shifted, and recreated. Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian handmade textile production and consumption. From traditionalist discourse and cultural authenticity to fashion and market trends, the contributors to this collection demonstrate the multilayered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498586511
• ISBN13: 9781498586511
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"