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Mexican Textiles
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Pages: 156
Authors: Masako Takahashi
Categories: Architecture
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Whether its a hand-woven sarape, a festive square of oilcloth, or a delicate trimming of lace, Mexican textiles reflect passionate appreciation for color, patte
Textiles from Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 87
Authors: Chloƫ Sayer
Categories: Embroidery
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: British museum Press

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Mexican textiles have a vitality that is unsurpassed elsewhere in the Americas. The arts of spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery are practiced in hundreds o
Textile Fiestas of Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 0
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Winner: 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Silver, Travel This book, geared to independent-minded travelers, presents the most safe and accessible regional mar
The Unbroken Thread
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Kathryn Klein
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representin
Textiles and Capitalism in Mexico
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Richard J. Salvucci
Categories: Business & Economics
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The obrajes, or native textile manufactories, were primary agents of developing capitalism in colonial Mexico. Drawing on previously unknown or unexplored archi