This pictorial survey is arranged visually with a focus on design, particularly color and pattern. The fabric is contemporary, most made of cotton primarily in Africa commercially, and many designs are printed adaptations of traditional African woven textiles. The designs can serve as a reference and inspiration to artists and designers of fabric and fashion. There are complex and abstract patterns, florals, pictorials, animal and figural themes.
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Shirley Friedland studied and excelled in fabric design competition at the Cleveland School of Art and now collects exotic fabrics. Leslie Pia is a noted scholar and author on twentieth-century decorative arts, having written several other books with Schiffer Publishing.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good clean designs,
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This review is from: African Prints (Schiffer Book for Designers and Collectors) (Paperback)
Designs are easily transferable to many disciplines. Designs are clear and clean. Useful and full of lovely ideas
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nice pictures, not enough textual support,
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This review is from: African Prints (Schiffer Book for Designers and Collectors) (Paperback)
While the photos are fine, organized by type of pattern/image, there is not enough text or information on the various fabrics. The reader would benefit from an explanation of some different fabric types, like "kente" or "mud cloth". We never find out what these or others are, what they mean, where they come from, where you might find them, what they are used for, etc. There is Nothing on the background of the fabrics in this book, so while it pretends, with its intro, to shed light on Africa's textile arts and making "bridges to cultures other than one's own", it actually shows a random sampling of textile patterns, some of which are made more for Western consumption, some for people there, by anonymous authors used by anonymous people. This book is not beautiful enough to make up for the utter lack of context and meaningful information.
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