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Schiffer The Art Is the Cloth: How to Look at and Understand Tapestries

By Schiffer
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Schiffer The Art Is the Cloth: How to Look at and Understand Tapestries

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The Art Is the Cloth is a colorful guided tour from an expert, enabling weavers, textile lovers, and art lovers to notice and appreciate what tapestries can do and how they do it. This guide from expert tapestry weaver and historian Sidore gives how-to strategies enabling weavers and nonweavers to notice and appreciate the meaning of these artworks. You'll discover much to enjoy in photos of more than 300 tapestries from the 12th to the 21st centuries. Sidore enables you to think about the weavings in ways you have never before considered as she groups pieces that talk with each other—and that also converse with the viewer. Enjoy learning basic elements of weaving to help you become increasingly sophisticated in understanding what you're seeing. Then, learn seven ways in which tapestries can call attention to themselves as cloth. This eye-opening guide to seeing explains the great range of materials and visual themes, the use of trompe l’oeil, the importance of the direction in which the weaver weaves, and more. After this learning experience, you'll bring smarter eyes to your museum wandering, deeper enjoyment to your collection and purchases, and surprising new skills and creativity to your weaving of fibers...and of life. Hardcover, 224 pages; Schiffer.

Note: Our copies have been signed by author Micala Sidore.

Craft
Weaving
Brand
Schiffer
Author
Micala Sidore
Publisher
Schiffer
ISBN
9780764359927

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This is a beautiful hardcover book with amazing high quality color illustrations that bring to life the easy to read and informative text. Authored by Micala Sidore, it is 'visual poetry' at it's best and a joy to read.

Ann Bilbrey 1/4/2024