e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Title Starts with...Title Keyword(s)Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)Subject Starts with...Subject Keyword(s)Series Starts with...Series Keyword(s)Anyword/AnywhereList Name Keyword(s)       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Gordon, Beverly.     Subjects     Textile crafts -- History.     Textile fabrics -- History.     Textile fabrics -- Social aspects.     Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gordon, Beverly.       by title:      Textiles : the whole...       by call number:      746.09 G662t     Search the Web     Gordon, Beverly.     Textile crafts -- History.     Textile fabrics -- History.     Textile fabrics -- Social aspects.     Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.       MARC Display

Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance / Beverly Gordon. by Gordon, Beverly. Thames & Hudson, 2014. Call #: 746.09 G662t Subjects Textile crafts -- History.   Textile fabrics -- History.   Textile fabrics -- Social aspects.   Clothing and dress -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9780500291139 (pbk.) 0500291136 (pbk.) Edition:  First paperback edition. Description:  304 p. : ill. (mostly color) ; 26 cm. Notes:  Originally published in hardcover in 2011. "With 380 illustrations, 318 in color"--Title page. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-297) and index. Contents:  The very fabric of existence : textiles in human consciousness -- Living on the earth : textiles and human survival -- The ties that bind : the social meanings of textiles -- Cloth and temporal power : money, trade, status, and control -- Cloth as communication : expressing meaning, messages, and beauty -- Textiles and the spirit : the sacred, spiritual, and healing significance of cloth. Summary:  Discusses how textiles are an integral part of the human life journey from cradle to grave in a multitude of practical, symbolic and spiritual ways. This title illustrates the many uses of textiles in our everyday lives. It outlines how textiles are a means of communication functional, political and artistic and a metaphor for transcendence. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Non-Circulating Reference 746.09 G662t Non-circulating Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.