Readings

Radical Embroidery: ARTSY.net
and Met ART – Embroidery:
Bickel, Barbara (2015). Socially-engaged art beyond the classroom: Napping, dreaming, and art making. Artzien: Arts Teaching Journal. 1 (1), pp. 79-91.

 

Baert, Renee (1998). Three Dresses, Tailored to the Times.  In Ingrid Bachmann & Ruth Scheuing (Eds.), Material matters: The art and culture of contemporary textiles (pp.75 -91 Toronto: YYZ Books.

Buszek, M.E. (2011). “Crochet and the Cosmos: An interview with Margaret Wertheim”. In Maria Elena

Buszek (Ed.), Extra/ordinary: Craft and contemporary art (pp. 175-183). Durham and London: Duke University Press. DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392873

 https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1455/ (this is the link to read the article)

Dean, Jenny and Diadick Casselman, Karen (2010). Wild Color, Revised and Updated Edition: The Complete Guide to Making and Using Natural Dyes. 

 

Freundl, Dianne. “The poetry and politics of fabric in Bharti Kher’s sari portraits.” In Bharti Kher, Matter (pp. 108-121). Vancouver Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, London: Black Dog Publishing.

Greer, Betsy (2011). Craftivist history. In Maria Elena Buszek (Ed.), Extra/ordinary: Craft and contemporary art (pp. 175-183). Durham and London: Duke University Press. DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392873

https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1455/

Hawkes, Kiku (1998). “Skanda.” In Ingrid Bachmann & Ruth Scheuing (Eds.), Material matters: The art and culture of contemporary textiles (pp. 233-238). Toronto: YYZ Books.

Hartung, R. (1964). Creative Textile Design: Thread and Fabric.  (translator: Brian Battershaw). New York: Reinhold Pub.Corp.

Harvey, V.I. (1967). Macramé: The Art of Creative Knotting. Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. (this will be a handout).

Irwin, R. L., & O’Donoghue, D. (2012). Encountering pedagogy through relational art practices. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 31(3), 221-236.

Jordan, Nané (2012). On the esoterics of thread. In C. Chambers, E. Hasebe-Ludt, A. Sinner & C. Leggo (Eds.), A heart of wisdom: Life writing as empathetic inquiry (pp. 98-102). New York: Peter Lange.

Kallis, Sharon (2014). “Why impermanence matters.” In, Common threads: Weaving community through collaborative eco-art (pp. 69-82). Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers. https://sharonkallis.com/installations/

Kelly, Robert (2008). “Longitudinal Creativity: Understanding the Growth and Development of Ideas in an Educational Setting.” In Robert Kelly & Carl Leggo (eds.), Creative expression, creative education; creativity as a primary rationale for education (pp. 21-33). Calgary, AB: Detselig Ltd.

Kordic, Angie (2016) Embroidery Art : More and More Common in Contemporary Expression https://www.widewalls.ch/embroidery-art/ 

Lake, R. (2013). A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization: An Imaginative Dialogue with Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Lipson, Elaine (2012). “Slow Cloth Manifesto.” In Textiles and Politics: Textile Society of America 13th Biennial Symposium Proceedings. digital commons

Livingstone, J., Ploof, J. Eds. (2007). The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Moore, Mandy & Prain, Leanne (2009). Chapter One. In Mandy Moore & Leanne Prain, Yarn bombing: The art of crochet and knit graffiti (pp. 17-33). Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.

Nakamura, J. & Cxikszentmihalyi, M (2000) The concept of flow. In Snyder, C.R. & Lopez, S.J. (Ed,) Oxford handbook of positive psychology. Oxford University Press. UCA. 89-105.

Nakamura, J., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2014). The concept of flow. In Flow and the foundations of positive psychology (pp. 239-263). Springer, Dordrecht

Prain, Leanne (2011). Chapter One. In Leanne Prain, Hoopla: The art of unexpected embroidery (pp. 17-33). Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.

Redmond, Wen (2017). Wen Redmond’s Digital Fiber Art: Combine Photos & Fabric – Create Your Own Mixed-Media Masterpiece. Lafayette, CA: C&T Publishing.

Sparrow, Debra (1998). “A journey.” In Ingrid Bachmann & Ruth Scheuing (Eds.), Material matters: The art and culture of contemporary textiles (pp.149 -156). Toronto: YYZ Books.

 

Xiong, Gu (2008) “In my own words.” In Robert Kelly & Carl Leggo (eds.), Creative expression, creative education; creativity as a primary rationale for education (pp. 67-76). Calgary, AB: Detselig Ltd

Young-Hee, Suh (2013). “Contemplating a system of horizontals and verticals.” In KIMSOOJA unfolding, Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition catalogue, curated by Daina Augaitis. Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag.

Weidman, Mary Lou (2009). Out of the Box: Unleashing your creativity through quilts (pp. 10-13). Woodinville, WA: Martingale & Company.

Welsley-Smith, Claire (2015). Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art. UK: Batsford.

Wherry, Frederick (2008). “Same local conditions, different frames. Global Markets and Local Crafts: Thailand and Costa Rica Compared. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. (pp.48-72)