The Lamb Collection of West African Narrow Strip Weaving.

Language: English

Published by Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1975

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48 p., Ill. Der Einband ist stark berieben, die vordere untere Ecke des Einbands ist abgerissen, die Seiten sind papierbedingt leicht nachgedunkelt, ansonsten ein gutes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. / The binding is heavily rubbed, the lower front corner of the cover is torn off, the pages are slightly darkened due to the paper, otherwise a good copy without markings. -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgment -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Patterning -- Technique -- Map -- Geographical Distribution -- Origins -- (Excerpt:) FOREWORD The Lamb Collection of West African narrow strip cloth contains well over 1000 items, including complete cloths, sample strips and snippets, loom parts such as beaters, sword sticks and heddle pulleys, as well as a number of com-plete looms and photographic records of African weaving designs and tech-niques. Most of the items in the collection were acquired by the Lambs in the field, and, in addition to the beauty of the individual cloths, the thorough documentation of the pieces is an invaluable contribution to the study of this body of material. Both Venice Lamb and her husband, Professor Alastair Lamb, have been in-volved with the assembling of the collection, but it is primarily Venice Lamb who has had the opportunity to delve most deeply into the research on de-signs and techniques employed by the West Africans in the manufacture of narrow strip cloth. Daughter of a distinguished British designer and typographer, the late Asheley Havinden, Venice Lamb studied painting in the atelier of Fernand Léger in Paris. Later she was trained as an occupational therapist during which study she first became interested in weaving. Knowledge of this craft was put to use when, for some years, she was Head of the Occupational Therapy De-partment of Sungei Bulch Leper Settlement near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. For approximately four years, from 1968 to 1973, while Professor Lamb was Head of the Department of History in the University of Ghana, she lived and travelled widely in West Africa [.]. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.…

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Title
The Lamb Collection of West African Narrow Strip Weaving.
Author
Lamb, Venice, Alastair Lamb and Patricia Fiske (ed.):
Publisher
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum
Publication year
1975
Condition
Gut
Binding
Staple-stitched.
Language
English
Item weight
250 grams
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