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Pattern Cutting for Menswear Second Edition
|| Ongedefinieerd || Gareth Kershaw || Laurence King Publishing
Pattern Cutting for Menswear is a comprehensive guide to cutting patterns, from basic skills to advanced techniques. With over twenty complete patterns, including new jacket and trouser styles, this revised edition features additional sections on the leg stride relationship in the development of certain trouser styles, fabric properties and their effect on cut and drape, fitting techniques for structured jackets, and the latest information on pattern CAD-based technologies. The step-by-step a...
Interwoven Histories
Contemporary Art, Migratory Narratives and Textiles
2022 || Paperback || Christel Vesters || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
In Interwoven Histories: Contemporary Art, Migratory Narratives and Textiles curator and textile researcher Christel Vesters unravels the intricate connections between textile, history and society from a contemporary art perspective. Through essays and detailed examination of five seminal works of contemporary art, she looks at textile and textile techniques as a medium and as a mediator, exploring how textile objects – old and new – bear witness to histories and stories that are often m...
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Petrified Media
2023 || Paperback || Stephen Cornford || The Eriskay Connection
Inspired by the Anthropocene, media artist Stephen Cornford speculates on the deep future of electronic waste as it sediments into Earth’s stratigraphic record. By applying geological techniques to a hypothetical “technofossil”, he seeks to materialise an inevitable scenario where discarded technologies become part of the planet’s geology. Colourful microscope imagery combines with analyses of elementary composition and details on the origin of the indispensable metals used in the pro...
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Broken. Mending and repair in a throwaway world
Mending and repair in a throwaway world
2023 || Hardcover || Katie Treggiden e.a. || Idea Books B.V.
We live in a single-use society, where fashion is fast, disposability is the norm and it is easier to replace than to repair. We don't need to mend things anymore – and yet we do. What is it about Homo faber – man the maker – that cannot resist fixing what is broken?
As we start to decouple from the linear take-make-waste model that has dominated Western economies since the Industrial Revolution and seek something more circular, an enquiry into what mending means has never been more urg...
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Ancient Glass
Collection
1900 || Paperback || BAI || met inkijkexemplaar
The ancient glass collection is one of the hidden gems at the MAS (Antwerp, Belgium). It is part of a valuable glass collection numbering nearly 700 objects and is on a par with other international collections of glass. Now, for the first time, the subcollection of ancient glass is published in this comprehensive catalogue.
The ancient glass collection held at the MAS contains along-side more conventional objects, such as Roman toiletry items, some quite remarkable pieces that appear only rar...
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Dutch Ship Tiles
Amsterdam-Utrecht-Harlingen-Makkum 1660-1980
|| Paperback || Jan Pluis || Primavera || met inkijkexemplaar
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Fashion & Costume
2016 || Paperback || Bianca M. du Mortier || nai010 uitgevers publishers
This richly illustrated book presents 80 exceptional garments from the Rijksmuseum's substantial costume collection, the oldest in the Netherlands. From the clothes of the Frisian branch of the Orange dynasty in the Dutch Golden Age, through dresses of colorful French silk and glittering velvet men's suits from the 18th century to the classic empire of the Fin de Siècle to the 20th century haute couture by Dior and Yves Saint Laurent.
This selection highlights the international character of D...
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Shifting Interfaces
An Anthology of Presence, Empathy, and Agency in 21st Century Media Arts
2020 || Paperback || Hava Aldouby || Leuven University Press
Early 21st century media arts are addressing the anxieties of an age shadowed by ubiquitous surveillance, big-data profiling, and globalised translocations of people. Altogether, they tap the overwhelming changes in our lived experience of self, body, and intersubjective relations. Shifting Interfaces addresses current exciting exchanges between art, science, and emerging technologies, highlighting a range of concerns that currently prevail in the field of media arts. This book provides an up...
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Covering the blade
Archaeological leather sheaths and scabbards
2020 || Paperback || Olaf Goubitz e.a. || Spa uitgevers B.V.