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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"embroidery"”.
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Accumulation: embroidery palimpsests
My work explores concepts related to temporal degradation and the impulse to preserve. Through the gradual accretion of fibrous material over extended periods of time, I produce stratified composite structures which serve as metaphors for material cultural advancement and highlight the role of …
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The Natural Embroidery of Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko
In this thesis, I plan to investigate the role of the landscape in Thomas Southerne's play Oroonoko. Most scholarship on Oroonoko focuses on the relationship between Southerthne's play and Aphra Behn's novella of the same name. In particular, the scholarly conversation has focused on the way that …
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Embroidery, business enterprise and philanthropic ventures in Nineteenth Century Britain
… nineteenth century a new form of needlework 'Art Embroidery' fuelled entrepreneurial ventures. The significance of these ventures will be explored and the contribution made by women employed in this industry, investigating their prevalent working practices and relating this to our understanding of …
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Stitches on Display: Embroidery Exhibited by the Museum of Modern Art
… acknowledgement, or lack thereof, of the embroidery medium in both the artists' own motivations and how the Museum of Modern Art represents and displays modern embroideries. Often perceived as old-fashioned, in both cultural and artistic frameworks there is at a times tremulous acceptance …
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Stitching from afar. Palestinian embroidery between narration of the self and practice of belonging
This research investigates Palestinian embroidery as a multifaceted cultural practice through which representations of collective memory, identity, and political claims are continuously negotiated. Employing a multi-sited ethnographic approach across Lebanon, Jordan, and digital platforms, the …
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Novel Embroidered Actuator Fabrication and Design Optimization
… fabrication method for these actuators: using an embroidery machine to create the ‘outer mesh,’ thus allowing for variation of backing material and embroidery pattern. Having tested and iterated through six assembly processes, the most reliable method is presented, beginning with digital …
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Embroidering Biblical Heroines in Seventeenth-Century England
… embroiderers drew. I argue that through the embroidery subjects we are sometimes able to identify the embroiderer’s economic status, religion, and even political convictions. Girlhood education and contemporary expectations of women’s behavior are essential to the place of embroidery as a …
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Η ΛΑΙΚΗ ΚΕΝΤΗΤΙΚΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΜΟΡΓΟ. (ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΜΕΣΑ ΤΟΥ 19ΟΥ ΑΙ. ΕΩΣ ΤΗΝ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΣΟΠΟΛΕΜΟΥ)
THIS WORK STUDIES THE POPULAR EMBROIDERY AS A FORM OF THE POPULAR CIVILIZATION IN A CLOSE CONNECTION WITH THE ECONOMY AND LIFE IN A TRADITIONAL SPACE, WHERE THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE ECONOMY IMPLIED SEVERAL CHANGES TO THE CICIL GROUND. ALSO THIS WORK CONTAINS A CONSIDERATION OF THE DYNAMIC …
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Designing textile-based wearable on-body electronic interfaces utilizing vibro-tactile proprioceptive display
… one study I examined how the addition of raised embroidery affords greater opportunities for active touch interactions. I helped test raised embroidery with both multitouch and single touch interactions to improve accuracy and speed of use. In a second larger study of 104 participants, I explored …
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Needling the system : the textile art of Colette Whiten, Barbara Todd, and Ann Newdigate
… respective mediums of tapestry, quilting, and embroidery, challenge existing systems of meaning through a strategic critique of dominant cultural ideologies. Simultaneous to this discussion it seeks to examine how traditional and institutional structures have contributed to the devaluation of …
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"Wayfaring Line" Lines of Thought, Gesture and Time
… drawing lines and the historical traditions of embroidery and lace-making.
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Evelyn Gleeson and The Dun Emer Guild: Redefining a Woman’s Place in the Arts
… including “domestic” pieces such as weaving, embroidery, clothing, and fabrics. During the late nineteenth century, the English Arts and Crafts Movement stimulated a revival of craft practices throughout Europe. In Ireland, this artistic movement was particularly significant as the nation was …
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Analisis faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi struktur modal pada industri kecil menengah (IKM) pada Sentra Bordir Bangil 2009-2013
… of this study is SMEs registered in the Sentra Embroidery Bangil using purposive sampling method as much as 8 SMI embroidery. Model analysis used is multiple linear regression method. The results based on of multiple regression analysis partial variable affecting the capital structure is …
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Getting Warmer.
… textures and the stitched lines of machine embroidery reflect the artist's interest in the formal qualities of mapmaking and topography. Conceptually, the work is concerned with the idea of material as landscape and artwork as personal geography. This thesis addresses the artistic and …
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Artistic Patronage at the Court of Queen Charlotte
… the so-called ""minor arts,"" such as engraving, embroidery, transparencies (illuminated paintings), wax modeling and miniature painting, fields which were traditionally open to or dominated by women. My dissertation demonstrates that Charlotte did not promote hierarchical distinctions prevalent …
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Making the Maldives: exploring how the body holds cultural knowledge
… Maldives by focusing on the islands’ traditional embroidery called kasabu viyun. It uses ethnographic information collected during fieldwork in 2018 to explain why it is important to safeguard methods as much as the objects created. It does this by arguing that through the culturally structured …
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Stay in Touch
… I use processes of weaving, knitting, crochet, embroidery and photography to touch the past and to feel reciprocally touched by it. I explore the ability of touch to imaginatively transport a person to another time or place. By embroidering images from my collection of family photographs I …
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May Morris and the Making of Art, c. 1880 - 1938
… practices and writings. Textiles, above all embroidery, were the artist’s primary media, and this project focuses on her complex and persistent engagement with textile production. Concerned with questions of making and materiality, it adopts an innovative thematic structure that mirrors the …
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If Chivalry Is Dead, Women Have Killed It
… lends themselves to feminine associations. Embroidery, which is stereotypically associated with women's work, is used to play on these clichés.Patterns also are instructions. The original intent for these pattern pieces was to construct a wearable garment. I am using these specifically …
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Motherland: Country of the Healer, Country of the Healed
… contextualizes Motherland, a 66” x 66” hand embroidery on Belgian linen that evolved from a growing body of vision drawings, small gouache and graphite compositions sketched intuitively after meditation, as part of a continuing venture to reconcile the position of self in the world. …
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