The Art & Tradition of Beadwork - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art & Tradition of Beadwork write by Marsha C. Bol. This book was released on 2018-06-05. The Art & Tradition of Beadwork available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A former professor and museum director offers a fascinating, in-depth look at the culture and history of beaded objects around the world. From a beaded dress found in an ancient Egyptian tomb to the beaded fringe on a 1920s Parisian flapper’s hem, humans throughout history have used beading as a way to express, adorn, and tell a story. Bol explores beadwork across the world and through the ages, showing how beading has taken on many different styles, forms, and purposes for different cultures. She looks at children’s clothing, puberty ceremonies, burials, emblems of social status and leadership, festivals, and many other cultural occasions that involve the use of beadwork. Images of artifacts and heirlooms as well as photography of people and their beadwork enhance the scholarship of this book for a beautiful, enlightening addition to art, history, multicultural collections everywhere.
Beadwork
Beadwork - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beadwork write by Caroline Crabtree. This book was released on 2009-08-25. Beadwork available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “This fantastic starting point for those beginning in the art of beadwork aptly covers the long record of the art form throughout the world.”—Booklist French mourning wreaths‚ Ukrainian Easter eggs, Norwegian bodices, Chinese slippers, Pakistani hair tassels, Egyptian belly-dancing outfits, Maasai wedding dresses, Sioux moccasins . . . from Greenland to Bali, beadwork from all over the world is illustrated and its history revealed. The earliest drawn glass beads were produced from around 200 BC in various locations in India and exported for centuries along the major trade routes to Africa and Asia. From the sixteenth century on, beads made in Europe became highly desirable trade items and spread throughout the world. This book is organized into five sections, with more than forty topics in all. Each of four main regional sections—Africa; the Americas; Europe; and Asia, Oceania, and the Arabian Gulf—outlines the history of beads in that area before examining production in detail. A fifth section surveys techniques, from brick stitch and herringbone weave to lazy stitch and three-dimensional structures. Includes information on collecting and conserving beadwork and a list of public collections around the world.
African Beads
African Beads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Beads write by Elizabeth Bigham. This book was released on 1999. African Beads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This uniquely designed book and kit with a detachable plexiglass spine contains nearly 2,000 colorful beads and instructions to make a variety of jewelry items while learning about African culture. 100 illustrations.
The Art & Tradition of Beadwork
The Art & Tradition of Beadwork - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art & Tradition of Beadwork write by Marsha Bol. This book was released on 2018. The Art & Tradition of Beadwork available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating, in-depth look at the culture and history of beaded objects around the world. From a beaded dress found in an ancient Egyptian tomb to the beaded fringe on a 1920s Parisian flapper's hem, humans throughout history have used beading as a way to express, adorn, and tell a story. Bol explores beadwork across the world and through the ages, showing how beading has taken on many different styles, forms, and purposes for different cultures. She looks at children's clothing, puberty ceremonies, burials, emblems of social status and leadership, festivals, and many other cultural occasions that involve the use of beadwork. Images of artifacts and heirlooms as well as photography of people and their beadwork enhance the scholarship of this book for a beautiful, enlightening addition to art, history, multicultural collections everywhere. Marsha C. Bol, Ph.D, is a museum director emerita, curator, and author. She taught at the university level for thirty-four years, and served as Director and Curator of Latin American Folk Art at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Director of the New Mexico Museum of Art; Associate Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Texas in San Antonio; Associate Curator of Anthropology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA; and Curator at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Her academic specialty is Plains Indian, especially Lakota, women's arts of beadwork, and quillwork.
Northern Athapaskan Art
Northern Athapaskan Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Northern Athapaskan Art write by Kate C. Duncan. This book was released on 1989. Northern Athapaskan Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
