Textiles from Mexico (Fabric Folios)

Book Description

Mexican textiles have a vitality that is unsurpassed elsewhere in the Americas. The arts of spinning, dyeing, weaving, and embroidery are practiced in hundreds of rural communities where indigenous people retain distinctive clothing styles. Their sense of design and color is dazzling and in many cases native traditions, such as Mayan or Mixtec, are coupled with postcolonial influences to fabulous effect.

Over 20 such pieces from the British Museumís vast collections have been photographed and explored in detail for this book. They range from a nineteenth-century rebozo, or shawl, made for a wealthy landowner to everyday pieces such as a huipil from Oaxaca. Anyone interested in textiles and design will find a wealth of inspiration in this book, and the detailed photographs will reveal unexpected nuances of pattern-making.

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Incorporating abstract and geometric forms as well as highly stylized images of flowers, plants, animals, birds, and humans, these exacting illustrations represent more than 20 major Mexican Indian cultures, among them the Huichol, Otomi, Tepehua, Huasteco, Nahuatl, Mazatec, Tarahumara, Tepecano, Mestizo, Zapotec, Mixteco, Mazatec and Cuicatec.

The McDougall collection of Indian textiles from Guatemala and Mexico

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The McDougall collection of Indian textiles from Guatemala and Mexico
Laura E Start
Manufacturer: Printed at the University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006AS7F4

Weaving of the Southwest: From the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

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Weaving of the Southwest: From the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
Marian E. Rodee
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0887400957

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This new and gorgeously-illustrated book presents important information on Pueblo, Navajo, Rio Grande and Northern Mexican weaving styles of the Southwestern U.S. region. Traditional and modern styles of blankets, clothing and rugs are identified and explained in detail with brief accounts of some of the old trading posts that sold them. Unique to this book are discussions of family styles with active weavers today. The author continues to work with modern weavers interested in preserving old styles and has gained personal insight to the origins of both old and new designs which she shares, for the first time, with her readers. The illustrations are drawn largely from the famous and outstanding collection of southwestern weavings at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of Ne Mexico where the author has been curator for many years. She knows these weavings well and clearly explains them. 194 color plates and 385 beautiful black and white pictures present these outstanding weavings clearly for close inspections. All weavers, collectors, dealers, and historians will welcome this new study.

Costume as communication: Ethnographic costumes and textiles from Middle America and the Central Andes of South America in the collections of the Haffenreffer ... in anthropology and material culture)

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Costume as communication: Ethnographic costumes and textiles from Middle America and the Central Andes of South America in the collections of the Haffenreffer ... in anthropology and material culture)
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Manufacturer: The Museum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0912089040

Navajo weaving from the Santa Fe collection, 1971-1996

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Navajo weaving from the Santa Fe collection, 1971-1996
Ann Lane Hedlund
Manufacturer: National Cowboy Hall of Fame
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 1569441588

Sarape textiles from historic Mexico: The Mexican sarape : a history

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Sarape textiles from historic Mexico: The Mexican sarape : a history
William Wroth
Manufacturer: St. Louis Art Museum
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: 0891780793

Textiles de Chiapas/ Textiles from Chiapas

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Textiles de Chiapas/ Textiles from Chiapas

Manufacturer: Artes De Mexico
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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CHINA'S RECENT CURRENCY DECISION EXPECTED TO HAVE MINIMAL IMPACT ON MEXICO'S TEXTILE SECTOR.: An article from: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico

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CHINA'S RECENT CURRENCY DECISION EXPECTED TO HAVE MINIMAL IMPACT ON MEXICO'S TEXTILE SECTOR.: An article from: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico

Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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Book Description

This digital document is an article from SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico, published by Thomson Gale on August 3, 2005. The length of the article is 1835 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: CHINA'S RECENT CURRENCY DECISION EXPECTED TO HAVE MINIMAL IMPACT ON MEXICO'S TEXTILE SECTOR.
Publication: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 3, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale

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DOT announces long-anticipated trucking program with Mexico: goal to facilitate movement of goods across U.S. border.(Capitol Comments): An article from: Nonwovens Industry

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DOT announces long-anticipated trucking program with Mexico: goal to facilitate movement of goods across U.S. border.(Capitol Comments): An article from: Nonwovens Industry
Peter Mayberry , and Jessica Franken
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Nonwovens Industry, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1232 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: DOT announces long-anticipated trucking program with Mexico: goal to facilitate movement of goods across U.S. border.(Capitol Comments)
Author: Peter Mayberry
Publication: Nonwovens Industry (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38 Issue: 4 Page: 24(3)

Distributed by Thomson Gale

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This easy-to-use, inexpensive book introduces beginning picture takers and makers to the fundamentals of photography and suggests ways in which they might create photographs that have meaning. Oriented toward traditional black and white photography, the book also explores digital techniques and web photography resources, equipment, cameras and camera accessories, the exposure and development of film, and the making and finishing of prints. All aspects of the process are explained and illustrated clearly in two-page spreads, each of which addresses a self-contained topic. For people who don't know anything about photography and would like to learn, and for those who want to make better pictures than they already do.

Customer Reviews:

Good book, could use more focus.......2007-07-27

A fine intro primer on photographer, but I felt always on the edges of getting good information. Much better at technical stuff, skimps on the art of photography.

Very well done.......2007-06-02

I've found this book to be the most helpful both for novices and learning to take the more professional shots.

Detailed information, definitions and technical terms are not so overwhelming that it would dissuade the average novice, but at the same time, they are explained well enough to carry on a conversation at your local camera store.

Now I just have to sit down and read the whole thing and I will be truly enlightened, or at least exposed at the proper F-stop.

A Short Course in Photography: An Introduction to Black and White Photographic Technique (4th Edition)

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A VERY Short Course
Great for Beginners!
If you're a beginner, you MUST read this book!
Very Helpful!
A first rate guide and introduction for B&W photography

A Short Course in Photography: An Introduction to Black and White Photographic Technique (4th Edition)
Barbara London , and Jim Stone
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A VERY Short Course.......2003-04-01

The book itself isn't bad. As a matter of fact, the illustrations and example photographs are excellent. But this is a VERY short course in photography. Most topics are covered in just enough detail to get you started, but there's really not enough here to really learn from without a lot of experimentation. A better bet is Photography" (7th edition). It is much more complete, has the same type of illustrations (it's from the same publisher) and covers all types of photography in detail. It's a little pricier, but you get so much more in "Photography" that this book is pretty much unnecessary if you have it.

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This is an excellent book for photography beginners. I am currently using it for a college course and is wonderful. Even if you are an intermediate this will still serve usesful as a reference book.

If you're a beginner, you MUST read this book!.......2000-03-13

I purchased this book so that I could start to understand the basics of manual photography before I enrolled in a photography class (I didn't want to look like a complete idiot!). Fortunately, I realized that this book is all I really need to get started and saved myself the cost of the course! It is written in a very clear, concise manner with illustrations to demonstrate every point. Each section of the book contains not only definitions and instruction, but tips and pointers to perfect your technique. The book covers cameras (and all of their controls), different lense types and how they affect the pictures you take, a thorough description of different film types and how they work, what exposure is and how to perfect it, developing the negatives, printing pictures, obtaining ideal lighting, special techniques, and how to see like a camera. Best of all, it teaches you how all of the different factors (shutter speed, aperture, lighting, distance to subject, developing, etc.) relate to each other and how a limitation on one could be offset by adjusting another. A+ book!

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A first rate guide and introduction for B&W photography.......1998-10-28

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A Short Course in Photography: An Introduction to Black-And-White Photographic Technique

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Good, basic photography book, though dated
Complete tripe.

A Short Course in Photography: An Introduction to Black-And-White Photographic Technique
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Customer Reviews:

Good, basic photography book, though dated.......2006-07-21

I've been using SLR's & digital cameras since early high school, including use for some publication work. This book gives good, basic information, and would be good for a novice just learning to use a film-type camera. My copy is dated 1979, so it includes nothing about digital photography. The other reviewer referred to Chapter 9 as being nothing more than verse or poetry. That is somewhat puzzling as my copy only has 7 chapters. Also, unless there have been more current editions, this book is too dated to ever be used as a textbook for any current college course. However, if you are just looking for a basic reference on basic, film-type photography, or are a new hobbyist with a film camera, this book is certainly adequate, and one could do worse.

Complete tripe........2004-07-15

If you are talking a College level course that utilises this book as the main text, I truly pity you. You will learn more by simple self research via the internet and using your camera over the duration of the course than this book could ever teach you. By the final chapter you are left banging your head into your desk wondering why anyone would ever choose this offal as a required textbook. Don't believe me? Read Chapter 9 and notice that the vast majority of the text is simple poetic musings followed by references back to previous chapters, as the authors were too bloody lazy to expand upon their meager ideas. Pathetic.

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More all-new comic strip adventures featuring Wallace & Gromit and a host of loveable characters, from the multi-Oscar winning Aardman Animation!

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Where's the Whippet?.......2004-10-17

I'm a big Wallace and Gromit fan, and a Whippet fancier so I thought I'd love this book. Though it was a cute story, I'm afraid the Whippet in the story did not look ANYTHING like a real Whippet, I don't know what they were were thinking of- they could have made some effort to reproduce a realistic Whippet. The Whippet club was listing this book in their "books on Whippets" section- Whippet fanciers who buy this book because they think they are going to see a Whippet are going to be very disappointed. Fun story, so I'll give it 4 stars for being entertaining, but the Whippet looked kind of like a Dachshund with long legs! Awful! I think they could have tried a little harder.

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