Asian Costumes and Textiles - From the Bosphorus to Fujiyama

Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Valérie Berinstain, Collectif, Hunt Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt Kahlenberg
• Assisted by: Mauro Magliani (Photographs)
• Publisher: Skira Anglais
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2001
• EAN: 9788881189717
• ISBN: 978-88-8118-971-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business; Mode, Stoff (Textil), Kostüm, Asien : Kunst