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  1. Costumes Of Light
    Costumes Of Light
  2. Success Through Color Charisma
    Success Through Color Charisma
  3. Artenergie: Art in Jeans
    Artenergie: Art in Jeans
  4. Fashion-ology : An Introduction to Fashion Studies (Dress, Body, Culture)
    Fashion-ology : An Introduction to Fashion Studies (Dress, Body, Culture)
  5. Clothing Appearance And Fit: Science And Technology
    Clothing Appearance And Fit: Science And Technology
  6. Ladies in Furs: 1900-1940 (The Twentieth Century-Histories of Fashion Series)
    Ladies in Furs: 1900-1940 (The Twentieth Century-Histories of Fashion Series)
  7. Silvia Tcherassi
    Silvia Tcherassi
  8. Hang-Ups: The Secret Life of Clothes
    Hang-Ups: The Secret Life of Clothes
  9. Dressed to Kill: What to Wear to Explore, Rule, Conquer, and Charm as Fashion Makes History
    Dressed to Kill: What to Wear to Explore, Rule, Conquer, and Charm as Fashion Makes History
  10. The Cutting Edge: 50 Years of British Fashion, 1947-1997
    The Cutting Edge: 50 Years of British Fashion, 1947-1997
  11. Purse Seining Manual
    Purse Seining Manual
  12. Clotheslines : A Collection of Poetry and Art
    Clotheslines : A Collection of Poetry and Art
  13. FYI Fashion Source : New York City 2000
    FYI Fashion Source : New York City 2000
  14. A Decorated Breastplate from Hasanlu, Iran: Type, Style, and Context of an Equestrian Ornament (University Museum)
    A Decorated Breastplate from Hasanlu, Iran: Type, Style, and Context of an Equestrian Ornament (University Museum)
  15. Chanel
    Chanel
  16. The Wearing of Costume: The Changing Techniques of Wearing Clothes and How to Move in Them, from Roman Britain to the Second World War
    The Wearing of Costume: The Changing Techniques of Wearing Clothes and How to Move in Them, from Roman Britain to the Second World War
  17. Puffins and Pine Trees: Maine Designs for Machine Knitters
    Puffins and Pine Trees: Maine Designs for Machine Knitters
  18. Women's Wear of the 1920's: With Complete Patterns
    Women's Wear of the 1920's: With Complete Patterns
  19. Historical Costumes of England 1066-1968
    Historical Costumes of England 1066-1968
  20. As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American Fashion in Advertising (Costume Society of America Series)
    As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American Fashion in Advertising (Costume Society of America Series)
  21. Threads of Colour
    Threads of Colour
  22. Fashion Marketing
    Fashion Marketing
  23. Purple Sexe #6
    Purple Sexe #6
  24. Fashion Images
    Fashion Images
  25. Dress and Globalisation (Studies in Design)
    Dress and Globalisation (Studies in Design)
Sculpting Space in the Theater: Conversations with the top set, light and costume designers
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    		Sculpting Space in the Theater: Conversations with the top set, light and costume designers
    Babak Ebrahimian
    Manufacturer: Focal Press
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 0240808665

    Book Description

    If you are working in theater involved in set creation, lighting or costume design this book will inspire you to reach the heights of the masters as you learn how they succeeded.

    To move a world from text to stage requires unique and considered design. Sculpting Space in the Theater reveals the philosophy and process of the most influential set, costume and lighting designers working in theater today. The designers profiled in this book - all of whom have established a visible signature and particular design process - have had a remarkable impact in the field of theater design worldwide.

    Interviews, illustrated with photographs and working sketches, reveal the vision behind designs, and personal anecdotes reveal lessons learnt, providing a practical insight into how designers approach their work, and achieve the effects they want.

    Theater professionals and students will learn from this unique guide how best to move a world from text to stage.
    The most influential theater designers gathered together in one book to share the secrets of their craft.
    Over 500 color illustrations detail each stage of the process to inspire theater designers to improve their art.
    Threads of Light: Chinese Embroidery from Suzhou and the Photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum (Ucla Fowler Museum of Cultural History Textile Series, No. 3)
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • ok - but a bit overrated I think
    • Most embroidery doesn't impress me, but.....
    • 5 is not even close to enough
    • WOW!
    • WOW!
    		 Threads of Light: Chinese Embroidery from Suzhou and the Photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum (Ucla Fowler Museum of Cultural History Textile Series, No. 3)

    Manufacturer: UCLA
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 0930741714

    Book Description

    Intrigued with the possibility of integrating texture in his work, American landscape photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum has a long-standing collaboration with the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute (SERI) in China. This splendidly designed volume describes the history of SERI with illustrations of its traditional embroidery and then proceeds to pair Ketchumís stunning photographic images with their exquisite embroidered counterparts. Essays locate the achievement of the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute within the context of traditional Chinese embroidery and trace the willingness to innovate that has long characterized this remarkable institution.

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars ok - but a bit overrated I think.......2004-09-02

    I bought this book, sight unseen purely from the rave reviews listed. To be honest I was a bit disappointed with the book. Firstly, Robert Glenn Ketchum's photographs are very average. In fact any 15 year old with a good camera and decent eye could take photo's of this quality. The thing that redeems them is the skill of the needleworkers. Secondly, I just think the book is overated. There's several western needlework books that cover this type of embroidery and have better images in my opinion so I just don't understand the rave. An interesting read, but..........yeah. I wouldn't have paid this much if I'd been able to flick through it first.

    5 out of 5 stars Most embroidery doesn't impress me, but............2003-08-17

    I'm not all that interested in embroidery, but I enjoy visual excitement. One day while gallery hopping, we came upon a small portion of the work depicted in this book. We were both blown away by the work! Absolutely amazing. I would really like some posters of this work.

    For those interested in the embroidery details, it is done with fine silk threads, hand dyed, on various fine fabrics, some of which are so fine you can see through them. Much of the interesting texture and effect is from what they call random stitch embroidery, in which the scenes are depicted by various colored stitches .5 cm (1/4 inch) long running in various random directions, yet they all come together to make the image. Other parts of the images are done by carefully controlled stitch direction to give crisp images. They pick up the light and are quite luminous, some are displayed as screens with light coming from behind. Only the enlargements in the book give a sense of the beauty and amazing technique of the actual pieces.

    Oh, and the book is good too. Definitely a 5 star quality coverage of the work, with background information, as described in other reviews. But the work itself is beyond 5 stars. (In the gallery they were priced around the $10,000-$150,000 range, some took several years to complete.)

    5 out of 5 stars 5 is not even close to enough.......2003-07-09

    Words cannot even begin to describe the beauty of the works of art contained in this book. If you only ever buy one book in your life to just look at the pictures let it be this one. I could sit entranced by this embroidery for hours. I agree with another reviewer who stated that you can't conceive of this art being created by human hands. If you need proof simply look at the cover. That is not a photograph folks, it is embroidered.
    The photographs are also quite beatiful. Consider as you look at them that the photo's are trying to capture texture...something very elusive in that medium. In many cases you can barely tell the photo from the embroidery and in others the embroidery is an interpretation of the photo.
    I cannot state this enough... this book is truly, truly extraordinary and I don't think that there is anything else like it out there.

    5 out of 5 stars WOW!.......2001-09-18

    This is, by far, the most beautiful embroidery book I've ever seen anywhere, at any time. It seems impossible that such impressive works of art could have been created. Robert Ketchum's photographs are beautiful, but the embroideries are, indeed, so breathtaking that it's hard to believe real human beings could have worked on them. This is the kind of embroidery I would love to be able to do, but it is so amazing that I know I'll never reach such a high level of expertise (at least not in this lifetime). My thanks to all the people involved in this project for sharing their special gifts with me and anyone else fortunate enough to have purchased this book or, better still, to have seen these works in person.

    5 out of 5 stars WOW!.......2001-09-06

    This is, by far, the most beautiful embroidery book I've ever seen anywhere, at any time. It seems impossible that such impressive works of art could have been created. Robert Ketchum's photographs are beautiful, but the embroideries are, indeed, so breathtaking that it's hard to believe real human beings could have worked on them. This is the kind of embroidery I would love to be able to do, but it is so amazing that I know I'll never reach such a high level of expertise (at least not in this lifetime). My thanks to all the people involved in this project for sharing their special gifts with me and anyone else fortunate enough to have purchased this book or, better still, to have seen these works in person.
    Costumes Of Light (Memoirs)
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      		Costumes Of Light (Memoirs)
      Daniele Carbonel
      Manufacturer: Assouline
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover

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      ASIN: 2843235839
      Northern Lights: Inuit Textile Art from the Canadian Arctic
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        		Northern Lights: Inuit Textile Art from the Canadian Arctic
        Katharine W. Fernstrom , and Anita E. Jones
        Manufacturer: Baltimore Museum of Art
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Paperback

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        ASIN: 0912298669
        Masters of Light: Designing the Luminous House
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          		Masters of Light: Designing the Luminous House
          Peter Hyatt
          Manufacturer: Images Publishing Group Pty. Ltd.
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Hardcover

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          ASIN: 1864701722

          Book Description

          A new book by Peter and Jenny Hyatt. Light is the primary language of architecture. It gives form, power and nuance. Masters of Light considers the world's greatest living exponents of design where light is paramount.
          Scholarship Sue in RARE Color DustJacket of Little Girls on Stage one in Witch Costume other in White Outfit waiting for Curtain to Open (Scholarship Sue)
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            		Scholarship Sue in RARE Color DustJacket of Little Girls on Stage one in Witch Costume other in White Outfit waiting for Curtain to Open (Scholarship Sue)
            Illustrated by MacGillivray, Blank Endpapers light FOX BOOKPLATE Attached FORMER OWNER STAMP, Glossy B/W Fr Judith CARR
            Manufacturer: Blackie & Son Limited, Great Britain
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Hardcover

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            ASIN: B000N48GXQ

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            HBDJ, NO DATE , 1940 ? , VG-/GOOD, AS-IS, THICK Red Cloth Lettered in Black, DJ Spine Large Chips Ends, DJ light Rub, Wear tiny Chip Tears Wear Extremities, BACK DJ light Wear Scuff FOX Edge Tears lists ends with Double Crescent, 296 pgs NO ADS in Back , war economy paper
            Kent State University. Graduate College. Masters theses : Department of Speech
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              		Kent State University. Graduate College. Masters theses : Department of Speech
              Laurence A Marino
              Manufacturer: Kent State University
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Unknown Binding

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              ASIN: B0006XCYRI
              Home pastimes or tableaux vivants: One hundred tableaux, with full descriptions of costumes, scenery, positions, lights, shades, etc., designed for public exhibitions and the home circle
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                		Home pastimes or tableaux vivants: One hundred tableaux, with full descriptions of costumes, scenery, positions, lights, shades, etc., designed for public exhibitions and the home circle
                James H Head
                Manufacturer: J.E. Tilton
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Unknown Binding
                ASIN: B000870GUY

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