| Description |
192 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm |
| Contents |
Embroidery: A Woman's Art -- Apprenticeship and Profession -- The Ma'allema and the Ma'allema Ressama -- Moroccan Embroidery Today -- Materials -- Creating and Executing a Design -- Dyes -- Colors -- Decorating the Utilitarian -- The Kingdom of Embroidery -- Tetouan: Hispanic-Moorish Traces -- Chechaouen: Andalusian Echoes -- Fez: Monochromatic Subtleties -- Meknes: Pointillist Fantasy -- Rabat: A Passion for Flowers -- Sale: Riotous Restraint -- Azemmour: Moroccan Renaissance |
| Summary |
This title explains how Moroccan women passed this cultural art down to the next generation and how embroidered pattern were used to decorate interior spaces as well as certain traditional accessories in the female wardorbe such as shawls, belts, handkerchiefs and headscarves |
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"Moroccan Textile Embroidery features over a hundred exceptional pieces of embroidery, along with rare photographs and paintings of Moroccan life that place this superb craftwork in its historical context. It aims to be a complete resource, containing detailed references to apprenticeship methods, techniques, and materials, and above all providing an eloquent testimony to the sophisticated artistic tastes of a society where beauty and practicality go hand in hand."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"Simultaneously published in French as Broderies marocaines"--T.p. verso |
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"All textiles reproduced in this book ... [from] private collection"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 190) |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
| Subject |
Textile fabrics -- Morocco -- History.
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Embroidery -- Private collections.
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Islamic embroidery -- Morocco -- History.
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Embroidery -- Morocco -- History.
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| Author |
Ferbos, Pierre.
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| ISBN |
2080111736 |
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