Book Description
Describes the regional costumes of Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, and Mediterranean ports and islands, and the influence of climate, geography, and historical events on them.
Author : Lilla Margaret Fox
Publisher : Plays
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN :
Describes the regional costumes of Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, and Mediterranean ports and islands, and the influence of climate, geography, and historical events on them.
Author : Lilla Margaret Fox
Publisher : Plays
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Art
ISBN :
Describes the regional costumes of Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, and Mediterranean ports and islands, and the influence of climate, geography, and historical events on them.
Author : E. J. W. Barber
Publisher : Fowler Museum Textile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780984755042
In the past, girls from rural southeastern Europe spent their childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that upon reaching puberty they could join the Sunday afternoon village dances garbed in resplendent attire. These extremely colorful and intensely worked garments were often adorned with embroidery, lace, metallic threads, coins, sequins, beads, and, perhaps most importantly, fringe, a symbolic marker of fertility. Over time new forms of dress were added so that by 1900, a southeastern European village woman's apparel consisted of millennia of layered history. Even today this dress continues to be worn on festive occasions and by older people in rural areas. Lavishly illustrated, Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe features fifty stunning nineteenth- through twentieth-century ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, and neighboring countries, plus one hundred individual items including aprons, vests, jackets, and robes. Elizabeth Wayland Barber traces this twenty-thousand-year tradition of dress in fascinating detail.
Author : James Snowden
Publisher : New York : Mayflower Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Jill Condra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1446 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Art
ISBN :
This two-volume set presents information and images of the varied clothing and textiles of cultures around the world, allowing readers to better appreciate the richness and diversity of human culture and history. The contributors to Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing around the World examine clothing that is symbolic of the people who live in regions all over the world, providing a historical and geographic perspective that illustrates how people dress and explains the reasons behind the material, design, and style. The encyclopedia features a preface and introduction to its contents. Each entry in the encyclopedia includes a short historical and geographical background for the topic before discussing the clothing of people in that country or region of the world. This work will be of great interest to high school students researching fashion, fashion history, or history as well as to undergraduate students and general readers interested in anthropology, textiles, fashion, ethnology, history, or ethnic dress.
Author : Doreen Yarwood
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0486433803
This authoritative resource presents a comprehensive history of clothing and accessories. "A mine of information" (Choice), the book covers every world culture with 650-plus entries, more than 2,100 black-and-white drawings, and eight pages of color illustrations. A detailed index makes it easy to locate garments from any era.
Author : Adolf Rosenberg
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN :
Author : Thomas M. Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1440855455
This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in Europe. Each country receives a chapter encompassing such topics as religion, lifestyle and leisure, standard of living, cuisine, gender roles, relationships, dress, music, visual arts, and architecture. This authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia provides readers with richly detailed entries on the 45 nations that comprise modern Europe. Each country profile looks at elements of contemporary life related to family and work, including popular pastimes, customs, beliefs, and attitudes. Students can make cross-cultural comparisons-for instance, a student could compare social customs in Denmark with those in Norway, compare Greece's cuisine with that of Italy, and contrast the architecture of Paris with Amsterdam and Barcelona. Culture and society are changing in each region and nation of Europe due to many political and economic forces, both inside and outside of each nation's borders. This encyclopedia considers many of the transformations connected to globalization, as well as traditions that still hold strong, to provide a complete assessment of the processes that make European societies and cultures distinctive.
Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226158713
Describes the characteristics of folk cultures and discusses the procedures used by social scientists to study folklife.
Author : Frances Kennett
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816031368
Arranged by region of the world, illustrates contemporary native folk costume, from the complex embroidery found on Scandinavian decorative dresses to the various styles of face veils worn by Middle Eastern women