Crafting Textiles in the Digital Age (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Nimkulrat, Nithikul; Walton, Kerry; Kane, Faith

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In an era of increasingly available digital resources, many textile designers and makers find themselves at an interesting juncture between traditional craft processes and newer digital technologies. Highly specialized craft/design practitioners may now elect to make use of digital processes in their work, but often choose not to abandon craft skills fundamental to their practice, and aim to balance the complex connection between craft and digital processes. The essays collected here consider this transition from the viewpoint of aesthetic opportunity arising in the textile designer's hands-on experimentation with material and digital technologies available in the present.

Craft provides the foundations for thinking within the design and production of textiles, and as such may provide some clues in the transition to creative and thoughtful use of current and future digital technologies. Within the framework of current challenges relating to sustainable development, globalization, and economic constraints it is important to interrogate and question how we might go about using established and emerging technologies in textiles in a positive manner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474286206
• Artikelnr.: 45259990

Autorenporträt

Nithikul Nimkulrat is the Professor and Head of Department of Textile Design at the Estonian Academy of Art, Estonia. Faith Kane is Associate Professor and Major Co-ordinator of Textiles in the School of Design, at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University, New Zealand. Kerry Walton is Programme Director for Textiles: Innovation and Design at the School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword J.R. Campbell
Kent State University
USA Introduction Faith Kane
Loughborough University
UK
Nithikul Nimkulrat
Estonian Academy of Art
Estonia
and Kerry Walton
Loughborough University
UK Part One: Digital Technologies Informing Craft Crafting Textiles in the Digital Age: Printed Textiles Cathy Treadaway
Cardiff Metropolitan University
UK Digital Embroidery Practice Tina Downes
Nottingham Trent University
UK
Tessa Acti
Independent Artist
UK
and Donna Rumble-Smith
Independent Artist
UK Textile Illusions - Patterns of Light and the Woven White Screen Anne Louise Bang
Kolding School of Design
Denmark
Helle Trolle
Kolding School of Design
Denmark
and Anne Mette Larsen
Independent Researcher
Denmark The Intelligence of the Hand Monika Auch
Visual Artist
The Netherlands Part Two: Craft Intervention in Digital Process The Digital Print Room - A Bespoke Approach to Print Technology Helen Ryall
University of Huddersfield
UK and Penny Macbeth
Manchester School of Art
UK Maintaining the Human Touch - Exploring 'Crafted Control' within an Advanced Textile Production Interface Martin Woolley
Coventry University
UK and Rob Huddleston
Birmingham City University
UK Garment ID: Textile Patterning Techniques for Hybrid Functional Clothing Kerri Akiwowo
Loughborough University
UK Processes within Digitally Printed Textile Design Susan Carden
Northumbria University
UK Part Three: Craft Thinking in a Digital Age Hand-Knitting in a Digital Era Josephine Steed
Robert Gordon University
UK Hidden Values and Human Inconsistencies in Hand-Stitching Processes Emma Shercliff
Arts University Bournemouth
UK Perspectives on Making and Viewing: Generating Meaning through Textiles Sonja Andrews
University of Manchester
UK Closely Held Secrets: Embodied Knowledge in Digitally Crafted Textiles Katherine Townsend
Nottingham Trent University
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