Silk
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Product Description
Silk is magical. Made by worms, it is able to absorb up to thirty times its weight in water, it is warmer than wool, and it is unsurpassed for beauty and touch. Schoeser focuses keen attention on silk’s evolution as a symbol of status and substance, then traces its central function in 19th- and 20th-century glamour, expressed through the work of designers from Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga to Emmanuel Ungaro. Schoeser also examines the innovative use of silk by today’s cutting-edge designers, among them Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, and John Galliano of Dior. She concludes with a detailed investigation of new silk technologies and how they continue to extend both the physical properties of silk and the possibilities for creative design.
Everything Silk
I am intrigued with books that show the history of commodities such as "Green Cargoes" or "A Perfect Red". This book on Silk is actually more geared towards the artistry of Celtic, yet it contains sufficient information on the history of silk and what part it played in the world commerce and even the arts.The book is geared more to womenswear down through history and even gives a little bit of the future speculation on what will be done with the silk and silk patterns. In the process of describing the uniqueness and beauty of silk, we are impressed by the many pictures in this oversized book. My favorite of these pictures is the painting of "Laus Veneris" by Edward Burne-Jones in the section on "Silk in Use".This book does make a good coffee-table book. However, I must stress that it also is a good book on the history of the commodity and may be placed in your library next to other books on the histories of organic products.
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