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Weavers' Stories from Island Southeast Asia

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Format: Trade Paperback
88 pages
Publisher: Fowler Museum at UCLA
Published: April 2012
ISBN-10: 0977834492
ISBN-13: 9780977834495

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'Weaver's Stories from Island Southeast Asia' delves into the personal stories of individual textile artists, bringing recognition to their accomplishments, skills, and extraordinary lives. Photographs of ten women from eight locations in the Southeast Asian archipelago along with examples of their weaving are accompanied by a DVD showing them at work. The book is part of a project to bring stories from the lives of Southeast Asian weavers and batik makers to an American audience, using video as the main component. Although the makers of textiles are generally not named in American museum collections, the creation of textiles is not anonymous in Southeast Asian communities. Senior artists are held in public esteem, and the cloth they produce is instantly recognizable to local people as their unique product. Roy W. Hamilton is senior curator for Asian and Pacific collections at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Other contributors include Jill Forshee, Traude Gavin, and Cherubim A. Quizon. 'This book is based on extensive fieldwork carried out with weavers in Southeast Asia. The weavers are interviewed on a CD included in the book. Essays on each of the weavers interviewed are featured to provide additional background.'--Publisher's description.