Vol. 4 – Textiles of the Silk Road. Design and decorative techniques: from Far East to Europe, BEATA BIEDROŃSKA-SŁOTA & ALEKSANDRA GÖRLICH (eds.)
Contents: Introduction (Jerzy Malinowski; Aleksandra Görlich); PART ONE: EAST ASIA: MAŁGORZATA MARTINI, Kumihimo: An Ancient Art or a Present–Day One? The Gifts of Mrs Midori Suzuki to the Japanese Art Collection in Kraków; BARBARA SZEWCZYK, “How the Kimono Released Women from Corsets” – Japonism in Fashion at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries; Anna Bielak, The Kimono as a Fashion Phenomenon in Modern Japan and Beyond; Maria Cybulska, TOMASZ DRÓŻDŻ, Traditional Japanese Shibori and Contemporary Textile Design; JOANNA BODZEK, To [Mend] A Reflection on the Lee Edelkoort Anti-Fashion Manifesto, the Kimono Reconstruction Project – My Personal Vision on How Mended Clothes Can Mean “Style” in the Future and How This is Connected with the Boro Textiles of Japan; EWA ORLIŃSKA-MIANOWSKA, Reception of the Orient in the Eighteenth-Century European Silk Industry; PART TWO: CENTRAL ASIA: MARTA ŻUCHOWSKA, Transferring Patterns Along the Silk Road: Vine and Grape Motifs on Chinese Silks in the 1st Millennium AD; PAWEŁ JANIK, The Faces from Noin Ula’s Embroidery – Xiongnu or Kushans?; ASTRID KLEIN, The Language of Kučean Clothing: A Comparative Study of Wall Paintings and Textiles; PART THREE: FROM CENTRAL ASIA TO NEAR EAST AND EUROPE – INFLUENCES: KOSUKE GOTO, The Celestial Lotus: On the Sources of Ornamental Patterns Woven in Silk Samite; MARIA LUDOVICA ROSATI, Textiles Patterns on the Move: Looking at the Iconographical Exchanges Along the Silk Route in the Pre-Modern Period as Cultural Processes; BEATA BIEDROŃSKA-SŁOTA, The Cross-Cultural Role of Textiles Exemplified by Textiles with Arabic Inscriptions and Some Other Motifs; CEMILE TUNA, Silk Trade from Bursa to Krakow on the Silk Road; PART FOUR: TECHNIQUE AND TRADITION THROUGHOUT ASIA: NATALIA SHABALINA, Colour is a Sign of National Traditional Ornamental Art; RACEP KARADAG, Characterisation of Dyes, Metal Threads and Silk Yarns from 16–18th-century Ottoman Silk Brocades.
Polish Institute of World Art Studies & Tako Publishing House, Warsaw–Toruń 2016
ISSN 2450-569 ISBN 978-83-62737-90-1 (180 pp.)
