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London: Victoria & Albert Museum; Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 2012. 128 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm. Exhibition Catalogue. Photographs by David Hughes. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "This unique and groundbreaking book presents dynamic and interpretive photographs of 60 years of British ballgowns and includes designs by Alexander McQueen, Bellville Sassoon, Bill Gibb, Erdem, Gareth Pugh, Stella McCartney, and Zandra Rhodes. The specially commissioned photographs by fashion photographer David Hughes are supplemented by essays exploring the ballgown as a particularly British garment, with designers, clients, and occasions unique to Britain. Britain's traditional social season of debutante parties, private balls, weddings, and charity events has long provided fashion designers with opportunities to create… Leer más

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Remainder spray/tail edge. Stated First Edition.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Viking; Penguin, 2004. pxiv, 398 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Cotton has touched off wars and revolutions, inspired astonishing inventions, laid waste to entire ecosystems, and enslaved untold millions of people. Alexander the Great carried cotton cloth on his back from India to Europe. Starting from the late eighteenth century, the fiber transformed creaky rural England into the greatest industrial power on earth. Today, cotton is, if anything, more preeminent than ever and at the center of raging global controversies. Now Stephen Yafa delves deep into the past to tell the amazing story of this humble, infinitely adaptable fiber that has--again and again--reinvented our world.Domesticated simultaneously in Peru and Pakistan some 5,500 years ago, later a prime motive for the colonization of the New World, as Yafa shows, cotton's most profound impact came after the Industrial Revolution. By… Leer más

New York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1961. Cloth, 88 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Translation of Tygtryck. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First edition thus. Dust jacket toned, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. Scarce. CONTENTS: The pleasures of block printing; How to make block prints on cloth; Silk screen printing; How to make silk screen prints; Multicolor stencil printing; Printing long bolts of cloth; Framing; History of block printing; Other printing and dyeing methods; Types of design.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1973. Cloth, ix, 245 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by Kaethe Kliot on the title page, no dedication. Age toning. Dust jacket, with toned flaps, protected in a mylar cover.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1963. Cloth, 318 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 29 cm. Translation of Der schone Teppich in Orient und Okzident. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1983. vi, 121 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First paperback edition.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Ecco; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002. xii, 448 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Apart from oil, rugs are the Muslim world's best-known commodity. While rugs are found in most Western homes, the story of religious, political, and tribal strife behind their creation is virtually unknown. In The Carpet Wars, journalist Christopher Kremmer chronicles his fascinating ten-year journey along the ancient carpet trade routes that run through the world's most misunderstood and volatile regions - Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, India, Pakistan, and the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. Christopher Kremmer's odyssey through the crescent of Islamic nations began in the early 1990s, when he arrived in Afghanistan to meet the communist-backed president, Mohammed Najibullah. On the outskirts of Kabul, mujahideen rebels were massing while the carpet dealers of the… Leer más

New York: Cora Ginsburg LLC, 2017. 23 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. At head of title: Cora Ginsburg LLC, Titi Halle. Research and text, Martina D'Amato, William DeGregorio, Donna Ghelerter, Michele Majer. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pictorial boards, xxvii, 124 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "This lavishly illustrated volume shows how items such as metalware, songket, batik, woodcarving, and kites have become part of Malaysia's cultural identity in the twentieth century. Author Barbara Leigh celebrates both the ingenuity of the practicing artisan and the technological advances in Malaysia's craft industry." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Stockton, CA: San Joaquin County Historical Museum, 1981. v, 30 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Photographs by Emmett Perry; map and drawings by Toni L. di Franco. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Front cover slighty scuffed. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1982. 200 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 26 cm. Photographs by Leo Hilber. Translated from the French Tapis de Chine by Valerie Howard. Firm binding, clean text. Age toning, edges & endpapers lightly soiled. Stated First edition. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill/Graphics Editions, 1996. 135 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Photographs by Ian Thomas. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2001. 112 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Museum studies (Chicago, Ill.), vol. 26, no. 2. Exhibition held September 13, 2000 to January 2, 2001 at the Art Institute of Chicago and organized by the Department of Textiles. Firm binding, clean inside copy. CONTENTS: Introduction, by Christa C. Mayer Thurman; Clothed to Rule the Universe: Ming and Qing Dynasty Textiles at The Art Institute of Chicago, by John E. Vollmer; Catalogue, by John E. Vollmer; Color, Life, and Moment: Early Chicago Collectors of Chinese Textiles, by Elinor Pearlstein.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing; Images of America Ser., 2001. 128 pages, chiefly illustrations, map; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. xiii, 316 pages, [4] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 23 cm. ConsumAsiaN Ser. Near fine. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. CONTENTS: The Study of the Commercialized Crafts of Thailand: Approach, Background and Principal Conclusions; Hill Tribe Crafts; International Politics and the Transformation of Folk Crafts: The Hmong of Thailand and Laos; The Dynamics of Hmong and Mien Commercialized Arts; From Tribal Costume to Pop Fashion: The 'Boutiquisation' of the Textiles of the Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand; The Hmong Cross: A Cosmic Symbol in Hmong Textile Designs; Hmong Commercialized Refugee Art: From Ornament to Picture; Temporal Ambiguity in Hmong Representational Textile Art; Lowland Village Crafts; Touristic Craft Ribbon Development in Thailand; Dan Kwien Pottery: The Heterogeneization of a Tourist Art; From Buddha Images to Mickey Mouse Figures: The Transformation of Ban Thawai Carvings;… Leer más

Los Angeles: UCLA Museum of Cultural History, 1988. 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 x 28 cm. Design by Jung-yu S. Lien. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at UCLA Museum of Cultural History, Haines Hall Gallery 2, Sunday, July 17 to Sunday, September 18, 1988. Good+. Firm binding, unmarked. Small dampstain/lower right corner (no mildew/mold, pages don t stick).. 1st. Paperback. Good. Oblong.

London: Allan Wingate, 1963. Cloth, 93 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Joint edition with the Publishing House of Czechoslovak Artists. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corner bumped. Age toning. Dust jacket worn & chipped at the crown/spine. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword; The Beginnings of Tapestry-Making in Czechoslovakia; The Work of Frantisek Kysela; The Tapestries of Antonin Kybal; Students and Graduates of Kybal's School; The Problem of Tapestry Style; Alois Fisarek and His School; Tapestries by Painters and Graphic Artists; Conclusion; List of Artists and Their Works. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Thames and Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1985. 288 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. First published, 1969. Revised. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1981. 48 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Exhibition held October 24, 1981 to January 3, 1982. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.