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Shawls gave way to differently designed wraps, including mantles, capes, and dolmans. [ 5 ] : 42 Another reason for their reduced popularity was due to their limited availability: the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) prevented the export of fine goat-hair shawls from Kashmir.
Featherwork is the working of feathers into a work of art or cultural artifact. This was especially elaborate among the peoples of Oceania and the Americas , such as the Incas and Aztecs . Feathered cloaks and headdresses include the ʻahuʻula capes and mahiole helmets were worn by Hawaiian royalty ; many are now on display at the Bishop ...
Women's night caps were usually a long piece of cloth wrapped around the head, or a triangular cloth tied under the chin. [1] Men's nightcaps were traditionally pointed hats with a long top, sometimes with a pom-pom on the end. [1]
Capes are often highly decorated with elaborate embroidery. Capes remain in regular use as rainwear in various military units and police forces, in France for example. A gas cape was a voluminous military garment designed to give rain protection to someone wearing the bulky gas masks used in twentieth-century wars.
Draping is a most ancient and widespread form of clothing. Many visual arts of the Romans and Indian sculptures, terracottas, cave paintings, and wood carvings (also shown in picture gallery) representing men and women show the same, unstitched clothes with various wrapping and draping styles.
William Morris died on October 3, 1896, but the Morris & Co. continued to design and produce textiles he had designed or planned, under the supervision of his chief assistant and Art Director John Henry Dearle. Dearle managed the company's textile works at Merton Abbey until his own death in 1932.
1917 – the Readymade was invented and exhibited by Marcel Duchamp with his work "The Fountain", an upturned urinal signed by the artist. The Readymade expanded the definition of art and of an artist. [4] 1917 – De Stijl, a kind of art based on pure geometry, was invented by Theo van Doesburg.
Michelle Sound is a multidisciplinary Cree and Métis artist, educator and mother, living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Using a wide range of mediums—including photography, painting, textile art, beadwork, drum making, and caribou hair tufting—Sound's works often explore her Cree and Métis identity from a personal experience rooted in place, family, and history. [1]