Greek Folk Textiles

Customs, Symbolism, Narrative

Johannis Tsoumas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

179 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
9781036456894 (ISBN)

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Textiles constitute the culmination of crafts and reflect in a vivid way the living reality of the evolution of humanity at all stages of its centuries-old journey through time. The intimate relationship of textiles with the history of humanity sheds light on the unenlightened aspects of the cultural and social identity of the peoples of the world. As for Greece and its long history from ancient times, Byzantium, the period before and after the Greek Revolution of 1821, until the beginning of the twentieth century, textiles pioneered traditional folk arts and people's daily lives and with their strong allegories often contributed to the mores, customs, beliefs and rituals of the small or large societies of the country. Weaving for clothing, the home, religious ceremonies, embroidery and lace for costumes, wedding dresses, priestly vestments, pillows and curtains, often served as ideal elements for interpreting the cultural origins and norms on which the history of an entire nation was based, while they often constituted key themes of oral folk tradition.In a thorough historical research with a wealth of illustrations and a concise analysis of folk traditional textiles, the author investigates hitherto hardly known data and shows the importance of their ritualistic, symbolic, as well narrative character, revealing their unparalleled rich, coded language which remains to be understood and admired.

Johannis Tsoumas gained his MA in the History of Design at Middlesex University, UK, in 1993 and received his PhD in the History of Art from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2002. He has many publications in various scientific journals to his credit, and he is the author of five books on design and culture: The History of the Decorative Arts and Architecture in Europe and America (1760-1914); The Emergence of Plastics Culture in Greece (1950-1970); Women in Greek Advertisements in the 1960s; Japan and the West: Mutual Influences in Applied Arts (1540-1960): Seven Essays and Greek Interwar Art and Design (1922-1939) An Overview. He currently works at the Department of Interior Architecture and the Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering, University of West Attica, Greece, as an Art and Design Historian and Design Tutor. His areas of research interest are nineteenth-century design, art and decorative arts history, and twentieth-century European popular, visual and material culture.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9781036456894 / 9781036456894
Zustand	Neuware