Naga Textiles: Design, Technique, Meaning and Effect of a Local Craft Tradition

by Marion Wettstein

The focus of this comprehensive work is the aesthetics and the decryption of the language of the textiles of the Nagas, a group of tribal local cultures in the north-east of India and the north-west of Burma. For more than ten years, anthropologist Marion Wettstein has systematically been drawing the traditional fabrics, and researching their design, production techniques, meaning and contemporary transposition into fashion. More than 60 color...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3897904195
• ISBN13: 9783897904194
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.7" x 10.8"