The Ultimate Textile Library: 23 Essential Reads
Weaving, Dyeing, Design, and the Cultural History of ClothBy John T. Taylor, T. F. Bell, Kate Heintz Watson, William H. Dooley, Peter Kilgour, Thomas Woodhouse, Washington Matthews, William Henry Holmes, Candace Wheeler, Grace Rogers Cooper, Broadus Mitchell, Arnold Wolfensberger, H. D. Buck, Frederic Kenyon Brown, William M.A. Davis, Samuel Brown, Thomas Packer, Margaret Smith Furry, H. William Nelson, Lila M. O'Neale, A. C. Whitford, Clinton G. Gilroy
Length96h 45m
About this audiobook
The Ultimate Textile Library: 23 Essential Reads gathers a capacious body of writing on cloth, dress, manufacture, ornament, and material culture. Ranging from technical instruction and historical description to criticism, design theory, ethnographic observation, and social analysis, the volume reveals textiles as both crafted objects and records of human exchange. Its juxtaposition of studies of weaving traditions, decorative practice, industrial production, and the cultural meanings of fabric gives the collection unusual breadth, while individual essays illuminate the close relationship between handwork, technology, commerce, and taste. The contributors—among them John T. Taylor, Kate Heintz Watson, Washington Matthews, William Henry Holmes, Candace Wheeler, Lila M. O'Neale, and Broadus Mitchell—represent intersecting traditions of scholarship, design reform, museum research, anthropology, and economic history. Their varied approaches situate textiles within the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movements that professionalized material-culture study while also debating the consequences of industrialization for craft and aesthetic life. Read together, these voices connect local techniques and inherited forms to larger questions of labor, identity, collecting, and modernity. This volume is especially recommended for students, makers, historians, and general readers seeking a substantial introduction to textile studies. It offers the rare opportunity to encounter multiple methods and periods in one book, inviting productive dialogue between practical knowledge and cultural interpretation.
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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length96 hrs 45 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Cotton Weaving and Designing
2CHAPTER I PREPARATORY PROCESSES
3CHAPTER II HAND AND POWER LOOMS
4CHAPTER III DROP-BOX LOOMS
5CHAPTER IV DOBBIES
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6CHAPTER V MISCELLANEOUS
7CHAPTER VI JACQUARD WEAVING
8CHAPTER VII LENO WEAVING
9CHAPTER VIII TERRY LOOMS—CARD CUTTING—LAPPETS
10CHAPTER IX AUTOMATIC WEFT-REPLENISHING DEVICES
11CHAPTER X THE PRINCIPLES OF DESIGNING
12CHAPTER XI FIGURED DESIGN
13CHAPTER XII TEXTILE CALCULATIONS
14Theory of Silk Weaving
15PREFACE
16OTHER BOOKS Published by CLIFFORD & LAWTON
17Jacquard Weaving and Designing
18PREFACE
19CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
20CHAPTER II JACQUARD MACHINES
21CHAPTER III FULL-HARNESS MOUNTINGS
22CHAPTER IV DESIGNING AND DRAUGHTING
23CHAPTER V CARD-CUTTING AND LACING
24CHAPTER VI SPECIAL JACQUARDS AND HARNESSES
25CHAPTER VII GAUZE
26CHAPTER VIII DOUBLE CLOTH
27CHAPTER IX TAPESTRY AND PILE WORK
28CHAPTER X CARPETS
29CHAPTER XI LAPPETS AND SWIVELS
30Jacquard Machines: Instruction Paper
31JACQUARD MACHINES
32SINGLE ACTION MACHINE
33DOUBLE-LIFT AND SINGLE CYLINDER MACHINES
34DOUBLE ACTION MACHINE
35THE RISE AND FALL OR CLOSE SHED MACHINE
36EXAMINATION PAPER
37The Dyer's Guide
38The Dyer's Guide
39PREFACE.
40CHAPTER II. ON DYEING COTTON.
41CHAPTER V. ON DYEING SILK AND COTTON BLACK, &c.
42CHAPTER VI. ON DYEING COTTON AND SILK.
43Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery
44ILLUSTRATIONS.
45Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States
46By W. H. Holmes
47The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances
48PREFACE.
49PART FIRST. ANCIENT HISTORY OF SILK.
50APPENDICES.
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