Aspects of baby wrappings: Swaddling, carrying, and wearing

NU Russell - Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter shows how wrapping the body in lace and other textiles developed in response
to a local, folk aetiology that pitched community members against supernatural beings in a …

Rishikesh: Silent Hum of Mystery

A Talwar - Himalayan Bridge, 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Himalayan Bridge Page 1 23. Rishikesh: Silent Hum of Mystery AMBIKA TALWAR Introduction
With mild trepidation and a touch of enthusiasm, I agreed to write this story of my visit to …

Textile, Text, Terracing, Territoriality: Weaving a Pan-Himalayan Identity

N Kumar, C Biak - Himalayan Bridge, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
There is veritable explosion of literature on the new area study of zomia. The concept of
Zomia is not well-constructed. We offer to examine the entire Himalayan belt inhabited by …

Redefining Borders and Identity: Ethnic Dress of the Lolo/Yi Across the Vietnam-China Border

S Lee - 2014 - digitalcommons.unl.edu
This innovative work explores several intriguing topics new to the field of textiles. Based on
multiple field studies conducted from 1999-2013 in the northern Vietnam provinces of Cao …

Embroidered figures: commerce and culture in the late Qing fashion system

R Silberstein - 2013 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Contrary to Westerners' long-maintained denial of fashion in Chinese dress, recent
scholarship has provided convincing textual evidence of fashion in early modern China …