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Asian Costumes and Textiles from the Bosphorus to Fujiyama. The Zaira and Marcel Mis Collection

Door Mary Hunt - a.o. Kahlenberg

Categorie
Mode, Kostuums & Verzorging
Boeknummer
#335987-WB7
Titel
Asian Costumes and Textiles from the Bosphorus to Fujiyama. The Zaira and Marcel Mis Collection
Auteur
Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt - a.o.
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
Milano : Skira Editore
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN10
8881189712
ISBN13
9788881189717
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black cloth, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs, double page map in b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting
This extraordinary private collection of traditional costumes, put together with taste and passion by an Italo-Turkish couple, will take us across Asia Minor, Central Asia, India, South-East Asia, and the Far East: five immense territories spanning from west to east, an impressively multi-ethnic and multi-cultural continent. It is impossible not to be fascinated by the incredible variety of animals embroidered on a Zoroastrian shawl; by the dress from Kohistan with four hundred multiple inserts; by the face cover with which young brides of Karakalpak wore when they left home to go and live at their husband's house; by the wonderful, sheer saris (jamdani) of Bengal; by the elegance of the royal couple at the court of Yogjakarta; by the vegetable fibre garment worn by Chinese peasants to pro... (Lees verder)tect themselves against the rain; by the Japanese fireman's padded uniform... by their contrasting design, techniques, structures and decorations. This extraordinary private collection of traditional costumes, put together with taste and passion by an Italo-Turkish couple, will take us across Asia Minor, Central Asia, India, South-East Asia, and the Far East: five immense territories spanning from west to east, an impressively multi-ethnic and multi-cultural continent. It is impossible not to be fascinated by the incredible variety of animals embroidered on a Zoroastrian shawl; by the dress from Kohistan with four hundred multiple inserts; by the face cover with which young brides of Karakalpak wore when they left home to go and live at their husband's house; by the wonderful, sheer saris (jamdani) of Bengal; by the elegance of the royal couple at the court of Yogjakarta; by the vegetable fibre garment worn by Chinese peasants to protect themselves against the rain; by the Japanese fireman's padded uniform... by their contrasting design, techniques, structures and decorations.
Pagina's
291
Conditie
Goed — Slightly foxed on top end verso dust jacket and slightly foxed on cut.
Prijs
€ 30,00

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