Fodor's People's Republic of China, 1982 (Fodor's Modern Guides)

John Summerfield

David McKay Company

In this Fodor's Travel Guide, John Summerfield prepares you for travel in the People's Republic of China. Topics include: - Planning your trip - Arranging accommodations on a variety of budgets - How to get around locally and cross-country (27 maps and plans are provided) - Background information on China's history, culture, and cuisine - Doing business in China - Sightseeing in the major cities and afield - Country-wide selection of restaurants and advice on what and how to order - Where to go and what to buy when shopping for antiques, silks,linen, leather, and fur Illustrated; includes index, maps, 8 papers of color photographs. Pagination: xii, 595 pp.

Fodor's People's Republic of China (1987)

Travel

United States

Fodor's Travel Guides

Songket textiles are gleaming prestige cloths created when hand-loom weavers add metal-wrapped threads across the weft to build up intricate motif bands of geometric and botanical designs. The supplementary wefts are gold-wrapped silk or fine cotton yarns; silver-wrapped threads are also found in some of Indonesia's old songket weaving regions. Employing a weaving technique that is hundreds of years old in Malaysia, Sumatra, coastal Kalimantan, and east Bali and nearby islands, songket artistry is a thriving, living, even expanding art form, asthis textile type captures the attention of new markets in an Indonesian public culture that is both tradition-minded and obsessed with modernity and middle class success.Gold Cloths of Sumatra combines the interpretive approaches of textile scholarship and cultural anthropology to explore songket aesthetics, as this remarkable shining gold cloth moves beyond ceremonial contexts to become a "hot item" as a marketable commodity, for sale as heritage textile and collectible. Chapters focus on contemporary songket craft by Minangkabau, Palembang, and Jambi weavers, set against a background of nineteenth-century songket weaving excellence. As commodities, present-day Sumatran songkets show high levels of weaving creativity and technical brilliance, making songkets a resilient art.

Gold Cloths of Sumatra: Indonesia's Songkets from Ceremony to Commodity

Arts & Photography

Susan Rodgers

Anne Summerfield

History & Criticism

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