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Hidden Complexities. Unfolding Miao Women's Textile Skills

Wernsdörfer, Martina; Flitsch, Mareile (2022). Hidden Complexities. Unfolding Miao Women's Textile Skills. Zürich: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich.

Abstract

A closer look at the dense surfaces of Miao women’s clothing, praised for their “exuberance of colours” and “explosion of patterns”, reveals complex skills: knowledge of the raw materials and their process-ing, command of the interplay between materiality and technique, colours and shapes, and great proficiency with needle and thread. Miao women communicate and interact through their textiles and utilise their craft as a means of self-representation and self-assurance. This brochure and the exhibition on which it is based offer vivid access to this textile knowledge in its many dimensions.

Additional indexing

Item Type:Monograph
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Dewey Decimal Classification:300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
390 Customs, etiquette & folklore
740 Drawing & decorative arts
Uncontrolled Keywords:Craft, Technology, Guizhou, Shidong, Basha, Textiles, Clothes, Dress, skill, Stich, Stiching, Appliquès, Piecework, Hemp, Ramie, Cotton, Silk, Indigo, Batik, Hunangping Green
Language:English
Date:2022
Deposited On:28 Nov 2022 07:30
Last Modified:28 Nov 2022 07:37
Publisher:Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich
Number of Pages:80
ISBN:978-3-033-09572-4
OA Status:Closed
Related URLs:https://www.musethno.uzh.ch/en/Exhibitions/hidden-complexities.html (Organisation)
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/223477/
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