The textile reader / edited by Jessica Hemmings.

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Touch
Textiles, text and techne / Victoria Mitchell
Freud, fabric, fetish / Anne Hamlyn
Meditation on translations and seduction / Catherine Harper
The blank page / Isak Dinesen
Sense and sensibility / June Hill
Continuity of touch
textile as silent witness / Maxine Bristow
2. Memory
Stain: on cloth, stigma, and shame / Jenni Sorkin
Considering the evidence / Jane Wildgoose
Worn worlds: clothes, mourning and the life of things / Peter Stallybrass
Collecting the contemporary: 'Love will decide what is kept and science will decide how it is kept / Sue Pritchard
The parody of the motley cadaver: displaying the funeral of fashion / Robyn Healy
Autobiography of a pocket handkerchief / James Fennimore Cooper
3. Structure
Invisible cities / Italo Calvino
Reflexive textile / Philip Beesley
Ouvrage: knot a not, notes as knots / Catherine de Zegher
Piecing and writing / Elaine Showalter
Testing orthodoxy: collecting, the gaze, knitting the impossible / Paul Whittaker and Clio Padovani
1440: the smooth and the striated / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Folds, fragments, surfaces: towards a poetics of cloth / Pennina Barnett
Statement VI / Judith Clark
4. Politics
Weaving as metaphor and model for political thought / Arthur C. Danto
Fiber art and the hierarchy of art and craft, 1960-80 / Elissa Auther
Tapestry and identity in Australia / Diana Wood Conroy
Gandhi and Khadi, the fabric of Indian independence / Susan S. Bean
Arachne's genre: towards inter-cultural studies in textiles / Sarat Maharaj
Setting the stage: Yinka Shonibare MBE in conversation with Anthony Downey / Anthony Downey
Culture / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
100% cotton / Pamela Johnson
Lisa Anne Auerbach's canny domesticity / Julia Bryan-Wilson
The subversive stitch: embroidery and the making of the feminine / Rozsika Parker
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
5. Production
A tradition with a reason / Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Zeroes + one: digital women & the new technoculture / Sadie Plant
Open source embroidery: curatorial facilitation of material networks / Ele Carpenter
Embroidery pirates and fashion victims: textiles, craft and copyright / Kirsty Robertson
The romance of modern manufacture
a brief history of embroidered embellishment / Melanie Miller
Artist's statement / Anne Von Mertens
Upcycling textiles: adding value through design / Rebecca Earley
Constructing textiles / Anni Albers
Biocouture or how to grow a frock ... / Suzanne Lee
6. Use
Stronger, faster, lighter, safer, and smarter / Matilda McQuaid
Knitting is ... / Sabrina Gschwandtner
De-coding the hierarchy of fashion textiles / Lou Taylor
The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Everyday use / Alice Walker

"The Textile Reader is the first anthology to address textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and a developing field of scholarly research. Revealing the full diversity of approaches to the study of textiles, the Reader introduces students to the theoretical frameworks essential to the exploration of the textile from both a critical and a creative perspective. Content is drawn from a wide range of genres - blogs, artists' statements and fiction, as well as critical writings - and organized in themed sections covering touch, memory, structure, politics, production and use. Each thematic section is separately introduced and concludes with a bibliography for further reading. The Textile Reader will be an invaluable resource for students of textile design, textile art, applied arts and crafts and material culture. Selected authors include Glenn Adamson, Anni Albers, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Sarat Maharaj, Rozsika Parker, Sadie Plant, Peter Stallybrass, Alice Walker and Catherine de Zegher"-- Provided by publisher