Beschrijving

“A visually captivating, deeply informative overview. . . . An exquisite, fascinating volume.”

“A visually captivating, deeply informative overview. . . . An exquisite, fascinating volume.”

“Emphasizing the spectacular visual diversity of the art form, Vogelsang-Eastwood illuminates embroidery’s global history.” —Kate Mothes, Colossal

“It’s a feast for the eyes, and proves that abstraction has long been integral to world heritage and wasn’t just something someone discovered in the 19th or 20th century.” —Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic

Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwoodis a design historian and textile archaeologist. She is director of the Textile Research Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands, and chief editor of the multivolume Bloomsbury World Encyclopedia of Embroidery.She is the coauthor of Dressed with Distinction: Garments from Ottoman Syriaand Covering the Moon: An Introduction to Middle Eastern Face Veils.