Textile Society of America 8th Biennial Symposium
September 26-28, 2002
Contents
Preface
Session 1. Archaeology and the Silk Road
Session 2. Textile Artisans, Global Markets, and Sustainable Development in Africa and Asia
Session 3. Silk, the Middle East and Africa
Session 4. Acculturation
Session 5. Silk in Medieval Europe
Session 6. Individual Papers
Session 7. Common Treads: Unwinding the History of Silk Production in Mainland Southeast Asia
Session 8. New Perspectives on the American Silk Industry: Silk Products and Silk Manufacture in America
Session 9. High Roads/Low Roads, North Roads/South Roads: Regional and Cultural\u27Personalities\u27 in Ventral and Southern Andean Textiles, part 1
Session 10. The American Textile Industry
Session 11. High Roads/Low Roads, North Roads/South Roads: Regional and Cultural \u27Personalities\u27 in Central and Southern Andean Textiles, part 2
Session 12. The American Textile Industry, cont.
Session 13. Silk Traditions in Japan
Session 14. Dichotomies in Silk: Crisp and Soft, Shrinking and Stretching, Sheer and Opaque, Past and Future
Session 15. Trade in Asia
Session 16. Individual Papers
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