The art is the cloth: how to look at and understand tapestries

Abstract

This eye-opening guide from expert tapestry weaver and historian Sidore gives how-to strategies enabling nonweavers to notice and appreciate the meaning of these artworks. (Book jacket)

Contents

Foreword: Visual poetry -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The elements of weaving -- Special materials -- Visual themes, adapting the past to the present -- Trompe l'oeil -- Directionality -- Textiles and identities, when textiles define a particular group -- Self-reference -- Historical self-reference -- The art in the cloth.