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IntroductionChapter One: Artists' StatementsJulie Ryder: Reflections on Charles Darwin's South Pacific (Australia)Jorge Lizarazo and Hechizoo: Columbian Voyages and Explorations (Columbia)Cecilia Vicuña: QUIPUing from Santiago, Chile to Sydney, Australia (Chile)Elaine Reichek: Revisiting a Postcolonial Kinderhood in America (USA)Mr Somebody & Mr Nobody: African Design Exported (South Africa)Chapter Two: Dutch Wax Resist Textiles: Roger Gerards, Creative Director of Vlisco, and Jessica Hemmings (National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)Chapter Three: An Imagined Africa: Stories told by Contemporary Textiles, Jessica Hemmings (National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)Chapter Four: Weaving, Tradition and Tourism in Ghana: "The End of Skill", Mamle Kabu (Ghana)Chapter Five: Can Pakeha Make Customary Maori Art? A Conversation in New Zealand with Weaver Margaret White, Damian Skinner (New Zealand)Chapter Six: Crafting Difference: Art, Cloth and the African Diaspora, Christine Checinska (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)Chapter Seven: From Brixton to Mostar: Social Practice Through Textiles, Françoise Dupré (Birmingham City University, UK)Chapter Eight: A Post-Slavery Reading of Cotton: Lubaina Himid (University of Central Lancashire, UK) in conversation with Sabine Broeck and Alice Schmid (both of the University of Bremen, Germany) Chapter Nine: Contemporary Textile Imagery in Southern Africa: a Question of Ownership, Sarah Rhodes (Central St Martins, University of the Arts London, UK)Chapter Ten: Social Sutra: A Platform for Ethical Textiles in Partnerships Between Australia and India, Kevin Murray (Australia)Index.
Cultural threads : transnational textiles today. ISBN 9781472530936. Published by Bloomsbury in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.