Primary Format: Paper | |
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ISBN: | 9781684580828 |
Published: | 09/01/2021 |
Pages: | 176 |
Size: | 8.5 x 11 in. |
Subject(s): | History Art Architecture and Design |
The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present
Eric Broudy
Paper: $35.00E-book: $30.00
Broudy is unusually skillful in making the complex appear simple. Any weaver would enjoy it.
--Shuttle, Spindle, and Dyepot
Broudy is unusually skillful in making the complex appear simple. . . . Any weaver would enjoy it.
—Shuttle, Spindle, and Dyepot
Broudy extracts his evidence from such unlikely places as Egyptian tombs to the unearthed ruins of a ninth century Viking ship in Norway . . . In this awesome feat of research, recounted with storytelling expertise, he traces the growth of weaving from simple matting and wickerwork basketry to the massive Tapestry (haute-lisse)looms of the Gobelin workshop of Paris and the silk-producing izaribata looms of China . . . If you are a weaver by profession or hobby, this book will make you proud of it, and, if you have never touched a loom and are thinking of a new career, this book will, once you tear yourself away from it, send you spinning off to the yarn store.
—Goodfellow Review of Craft
ERIC BROUDY, a former freelance writer and editor, now devotes his time to fine art photography and public arts management.