Text on Textile
Distributed for Sylph Editions
36 pages
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8 color plates
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5 9/10 x 9 1/2
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© 2008
Isabella Ducrot is a Roman textile artist and painter, who in this cahier presents reflections on the nature of textile and weaving which arise both from her major textile collection and from her close reading of mythology and art history. Her meditations are illustrated by her own art and are introduced by a specially-written poem by the celebrated Italian poet Patrizia Cavalli.
Contents
Preface
Dan Gunn
Dan Gunn
Tessere è umano (To weave is human)
Patrizia Cavalli
Text on Textile
1. In the beginning
2. What this legend intimates
3. Homer informs us
4. To restore her woven cloth
5. Disentangling a piece of woven cloth
6. The fame of Arachne
7. Industrious women
8. Plain-weave cloth is naked
9. The Greek word mitos
10. It has been suggested that felt
11. If the colour of the warp
12. While chequered garments are rare
13. At the end of the eighteenth century
14. A contemporary of Santa Margherita
15. An opaque silk scarf
Artworks
Colophon
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