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Shibori The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing

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ISBN-10: 1568363966

ISBN-13: 9781568363967

Edition: N/A

Authors: Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Mary Kellogg Rice, Jane Barton

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Description:

Potential for creating designs in textiles can be seen even in the physical properties of cloth. The simple fact that cloth tightly compressed into wrinkles or folds resists the penetration of dye is an opportunity-an opportunity to let the pliancy of textiles speak in making designs and patterns.People around the world have recognized this opportunity, producing resist designs in textiles by shaping and then securing cloth in various ways before dyeing. Yet in no other country has the creative potential of this basic principle been understood and applied as it has in Japan. Here, in fact, it has been expanded into a whole family of traditional resist techniques, involving first shaping the…    
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Book details

List price: $48.00
Publisher: Kodansha International
Publication date: 2/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 8.30" wide x 11.68" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 3.124
Language: English