Textiles and the Tai experience in Southeast Asia

Book

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Name/Title

Textiles and the Tai experience in Southeast Asia

Entry/Object ID

NK8877.G588 1992

Context

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2, 1992-Jan. 3, 1993 and at other museums.

Collection

Helen Romayne Cox Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

tai (southeast asian people)--social life and customs, textile fabrics--laos--exhibitions, textile fabrics--southeast asia, textile fabrics --tai--southeast asia, textile fabrics--thailand--exhibitions

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Exhibition catalog

Book Details

Author

Mattiebelle Gittinger, H. Leedom Lefferts

Publisher

Textile Museum

Place Published

City

Washington, DC

Date Published

1992

ISBN

0874050316

LCCN

93104884

Notes

Length: 264

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

A Message from Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand -- Preface / Ursula Eland McCracken -- pt. 1. An Overview of Tai Textiles. 1. An Examination of Tai Textile Forms / Mattiebelle Gittinger. 2. Contexts and Meanings in Tai Textiles / H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. -- pt. 2. A Catalogue of Tai Textiles. 3. Textiles in the Service of Tai Buddhism / H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. 4. Textiles in the Service of Kings / Mattiebelle Gittinger. 5. Textiles in the Service of Self / H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr. -- Appendix A, Looms -- Appendix B, Dyes.