Textiles from Mexico

by Chloe Sayer and SAYER CHLOE

Mexican textiles have a vitality that is unsurpassed elsewhere in the Americas. The arts of spinning, dyeing, weaving, and embroidery are practiced in hundreds of rural communities where indigenous people retain distinctive clothing styles. Their sense of design and color is dazzling and in many cases native traditions, such as Mayan or Mixtec, are coupled with postcolonial influences to fabulous effect. Over 20 such pieces from the British Museum's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295982349
• ISBN13: 9780295982342
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.8" x 8.9"