There is a rich tradition of hand-woven bands made by the nomadic pastoralists of Iran. They have a large and detailed design vocabulary, and were executed using weaving skills that were not exceeded by any other weaving tradition. No study of nomadic life and weavings in Iran is complete without them. Among Qashqa’i tribal weavers in particular, the warp-faced bands used to attach loads to pack animals were a key symbol of their nomadic life. These bands carry a large repository of motifs that may be a source of archaic design elements. Bands illustrate a connection between and among groups of nomadic pastoralists, as great distances may have separated their ancestors for hundreds of years. Although the overwhelming majority of weavers were illiterate, they possessed a different form of literacy in which they were capable of transferring an image into a woven structure. This is the first book devoted exclusively to these weavings. <\/p>\n
Contents: Introduction; The Functions of Warp-faced Bands in Nomadic Life; Structure and Construction; Buckles & Fastening Systems on Bands; Dating Textiles; Design & Structural Changes on Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Warp-faced Bands; Imagery & Design Elements; Tribal Confederacies; Plates; Bands, Ropes, Braids, and Tassels among Qashqa’i Nomads; Glossary; Bibliography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is the first book devoted exclusively to the hand-woven bands made by the nomadic peoples of Iran. The publication features many previously unpublished weavings of great art-historical and anthropological importance
Part 1
\nWarp-faced Bands and Related Textiles, Fred Mushkat
\n12 Foreword: Genesis of the Collection: Iran in the 1960s and 1970s, John T. Wertime
\n16 Acknowledgements
\n18 Introduction
\n22 The Functions of Warp-faced Bands in Nomadic Life
\n28 Structure and Construction
\n36 Buckles and Fastening Systems on Bands
\n40 Dating Textiles
\n44 Design and Structural Changes on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Warp-faced Bands
\n48 Imagery and Design Elements
\n56 Tribal Confederacies
\n68 The Plates
\n266 Technical Analysis
\n280 Glossary
\n282 Bibliography
\n284 Endnotes
\n289 Technical Details
\n289 Postscript
\nPart 2
\nBands, Ropes, Braids, and Tassels among Qashqa’i Nomads Naheed Dareshuri and Lois Beck
\n294 Introduction
\n298 Bands, Ropes, Braids, and Tassels
\n316 A Special Qashqa’i Band
\n334 Another Qashqa’i Band
\n340 Living with Woven Bands and Braided Ropes
\n346 The Yellow Gelim
\n354 The Social History of a Qashqa’i Saddlebag
\n360 Glossary
\n370 Bibliography
\n372 Endnotes
\nPart 3
\nShahsevän and Qaradagi Bastırıkh, Örken and Bezekh Peter Alford Andrews
\n390 Shahsevän and Qaradagi Bastırıkh, Örken and Bezekh
\n396 Endnotes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5540],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15300","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fashion-textiles","7":"author-by-author-fred-mushkat","8":"publisher-hali-publications-ltd","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n