Japanese textiles reading list

Blakemore, Frances, Japanese Design Through Textile Patterns. Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, l978. ISBN. 0 8348 0132 9

Brandon, Reiko M., Bright and Daring: Japanese Kimono in the Taisho Mode, Honolulu Academy of Art, 1996. ISBN. 0 937425 36 9

Brandon, Reiko M., Country Textiles of Japan: The Art of Tsutsugaki.  Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, l986. ISBN. 0 8348 0207 4

Brandon, Reiko M. & Stephan, Barbara B., Textile Art of Okinawa.  Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, 1990. ISBN. 0 937426 12 1

Dalby, Liza, Kimono; Fashioning Culture. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1993. ISBN. 0 300 05639 7

Faulkner, Rupert, Japanese Studio Crafts: Tradition and the Avant-Garde.  Laurence King, 1995. ISBN. 1 85669 062 8

Gluckman, Dale Carolyn & Takeda, Sharon Sadako, When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-Period Japan. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 1992. ISBN. 0 87587 163 1 and ISBN. 0 87587 164 X

Harris, Jennifer (ed), 5000 Years of Textiles. British Museum, 1993. ISBN. 0 7141 1715 3

Hauge, Victor and Takako, Folk Traditions in Japanese Art.  Kodansha International, Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, 1978. ISBN. 0 87011 360 7

Hays, Mary & Ralph, Fukusa; The Shojiro Nomura Fukusa Collection. Mill College Art Gallery, Oakland, California, l983

Howell Smith, A D. Guide to the Japanese Textiles. Part I. - Textile Fabrics. HMSO, London, 1919

Hutt, Julia and Alexander, Hélène, Ogi - The History of the Japanese Fan, Dauphin Publishing, London. ISBN. 1 872357 08 3

Jackson, Anna , Japanese Country Textiles. V&A/Weatherhill, London & New York, 1997. ISBN. 1 85177 216 2

Jackson, Anna, Japanese Textiles in the Victoria & Albert Museum, V&A, London,2000. ISBN. 1 85177 3169

Jackson, Anna  Japanese Country Textiles.  V&A Publications, London, 1997, 1-85177-216-2

Jackson, Anna  Japanese Textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum. V&A Publications, London, 2000

Jackson, Anna  Japanese Costume Entries. In Crill, Rosemary; Wearden, Jennifer and Wilson,  Verity, Dress in Detail from around the World, London, 2002

Jackson, Anna  Tessuti del Mondo Fluttuante; stoffe tradizionali nelle xilografie giapponesi [Fabrics of the Floating World: traditional textiles in Japanese woodblock prints]. In Biblioteca di via Senato, Giappone Coloir Indaco: La Collezione Montgomery, Milan, 2003, pp.10-13

Jackson, Anna  Ritual and Drama: Japanese Costume in the Victoria and Albert Museum.  Arts of Asia, Vol. 33, No 2, 2003, pp.102-109

Jackson, Anna  Dynamic lines and Syncopated Rhythms: Art Nouveau and Art Deco Designs in Early Twentieth-Century Kimono. In Assche, Annie van (ed.) Fashioning Kimono: Dress and Modernity in early twentieth century Japan, Milan 2005, pp.30-37

Jackson, Anna Fashion for the Foreign: The Taste for Exotic Textiles and Dress in Momoyama and Edo Period Japan.  Oriental Art, Vol. LV No.1, (2005) pp.28-36

Japan Textile Colour Design Centre, Textile Designs of Japan. 3 volumes. Kodansha/Serindia, Tokyo and London, l980. ISBN. 0 906026 04 0

Kennedy, Alan, Japanese Costume: History and Tradition. Adam Biro, Paris, l990. ISBN. 2 87660 083 8

Koop, Albert J. Guide to the Japanese Textiles. Part II. - Costume'. HMSO, London, 1920
    
Larsen, J., The Dyer's Art, Ikat, Batik, Plangi. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, l976. ISBN. 0 442 24685 4

Liddell, Jill and Watanabe, Yuko, Japanese Quilts. E.P. Dutton New York, l988. ISBN. 0 525 24661 4

Liddell, Jill, The Story of the Kimono. E.P. Dutton, New York, l989. ISBN. 0 525 24574 X

Matsumoto, Kaneo, Jodai-gire, 7th and 8th Century Textiles in Japan From the Shoso-in and Horyu-ji, Shikosha Publishing, 1984. ISBN. 4 87940 012 2

Minnich, Helen Benton, Japanese Costume and the Makers of its Elegant Tradition. Tuttle, Rutland and Tokyo, l963

Moes, Robert  Mingei: Japanese Folk Art from the Montgomery Collection. Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia, 1995. ISBN. 0 88397 117 8

Munsterberg, Hugo, The Japanese Kimono, Oxford University Press, Oxford and Hong Kong, 1996

Nakano, Eisha and Stephan, Barbara, Japanese Stencil Dying: Paste Resist Techniques. Weatherhill New York, l982. ISBN. 0 8348 0169 8

Noma, Seiroku, Japanese Costume and Textile Art. (The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art, vol.l6). Weatherhill-Heibonsha, New York and Tokyo, l974. ISBN. 0 8348 1026 3

Rathbun, William Jay, Beyond the Tanabata Bridge: Traditional Japanese Textiles. Thames & Hudson in association with  Seattle Art Museum, New York, 1993. ISBN. 0 932216 40 4

Stinchecum, Amanda M., Kosode: l6th-l9th Century Textiles from the Nomura Collection. Kodansha/The Japan Society, New York, 1984. ISBN. 0 87011 429 8 and ISBN. 0 913304 18 2

Takemura, Akihiko, Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers. Iwasaki Bijutsu-sha, Tokyo, 1991. ISBN. 4 7534 1325 X

Tomita, Jun and Noriko, Japanese Ikat Weaving; The Technique of Kasuri. Routledge and Kegan Paulo, London, l982. ISBN. 0 7100 9043 9

Various authors, Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing. Kodansha International, l983. ISBN. 0 87011 559 6

Various authors, Japanese Folk Art: A Triumph of Simplicity. Japan Society, New York, 1993. ISBN. 0 913304 35 2

Various authors  Four Centuries of Fashion: Classical Kimono from the Kyoto National Museum, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1997

Watson, William (ed), The Great Japan Exhibition, Art of the Edo Period l600-l868. Royal Academy of Arts, London 1981

Wilson, Verity Country Textiles from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands (in the Victoria & Albert Museum).  Orientations, Vol. 14, Number 7, July 1983, pp.28-42

Wilson, Verity  Japanese Silk Textiles.  Orientations, Vol.17, No.12, December 1986, pp.38-46

Yamanaka, Norio, The Book of Kimono: The Complete Guide to Style and Wear. Kodansha International, Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, 1982. ISBN. 0 87011 500 6

Yoshida, Shin-Ichiro and Williams, Dai, Riches from Rags: Saki Ori and Other Recycling Traditions in Japanese Rural Clothing, 1994

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