Author: R. Turner Wilcox
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486478718
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A treasury of ethnic dress, this book ranges from the Amish of Pennsylvania to the Zulu of South Africa. Alphabetical entries cover more than 150 countries and regions, each represented by six or more illustrations. Six hundred drawings include images of men, women, and children. Captions describe the costumes and their associated traditions.
Folk and Festival Costume
Author: R. Turner Wilcox
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486478718
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A treasury of ethnic dress, this book ranges from the Amish of Pennsylvania to the Zulu of South Africa. Alphabetical entries cover more than 150 countries and regions, each represented by six or more illustrations. Six hundred drawings include images of men, women, and children. Captions describe the costumes and their associated traditions.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486478718
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A treasury of ethnic dress, this book ranges from the Amish of Pennsylvania to the Zulu of South Africa. Alphabetical entries cover more than 150 countries and regions, each represented by six or more illustrations. Six hundred drawings include images of men, women, and children. Captions describe the costumes and their associated traditions.
Folk and Festival Costume of the World
Author: Ruth Turner Wilcox
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Presents vivid descriptions of traditional dress from over 150 countries, races, and ethnic groups.
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Presents vivid descriptions of traditional dress from over 150 countries, races, and ethnic groups.
Folk and Festival Costume of the World
Author: Ruth Turner Wilcox
Publisher: London : B.T. Batsford
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A collection of folk costumes worn in countries around the world.
Publisher: London : B.T. Batsford
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A collection of folk costumes worn in countries around the world.
Sticker Dolly Dressing Costumes Around the World
Author: Emily Bone
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9781409550358
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Dress the dolls with the colourful stickers included in the book and learn about the beautiful, decorative and often flamboyant traditional costumes worn by peoples around the world.
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9781409550358
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Dress the dolls with the colourful stickers included in the book and learn about the beautiful, decorative and often flamboyant traditional costumes worn by peoples around the world.
Folk and Festival Costume of the World
Author: R. Turner Wilcox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Keepers of Tradition
Author: Maggie Holtzberg
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558496408
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Throughout Massachusetts, artists carry on and revitalise deeply rooted traditions that take many expressive forms - from Native American basketry to Yankee wooden boats, Armenian lace, Chinese seals, and Irish music and dance. This illustrated volume celebrates and shares the work of a wide array of these living artists.
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781558496408
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Throughout Massachusetts, artists carry on and revitalise deeply rooted traditions that take many expressive forms - from Native American basketry to Yankee wooden boats, Armenian lace, Chinese seals, and Irish music and dance. This illustrated volume celebrates and shares the work of a wide array of these living artists.
The World Book Encyclopedia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
The Animal Book
Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054755799X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Learn some amazing facts relating to over 300 animals.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054755799X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Learn some amazing facts relating to over 300 animals.
Encyclopedia of National Dress [2 volumes]
Author: Jill Condra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313376379
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
This two-volume set presents information and images of the varied clothing and textiles of cultures around the world, allowing readers to better appreciate the richness and diversity of human culture and history. The contributors to Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing around the World examine clothing that is symbolic of the people who live in regions all over the world, providing a historical and geographic perspective that illustrates how people dress and explains the reasons behind the material, design, and style. The encyclopedia features a preface and introduction to its contents. Each entry in the encyclopedia includes a short historical and geographical background for the topic before discussing the clothing of people in that country or region of the world. This work will be of great interest to high school students researching fashion, fashion history, or history as well as to undergraduate students and general readers interested in anthropology, textiles, fashion, ethnology, history, or ethnic dress.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313376379
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
This two-volume set presents information and images of the varied clothing and textiles of cultures around the world, allowing readers to better appreciate the richness and diversity of human culture and history. The contributors to Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing around the World examine clothing that is symbolic of the people who live in regions all over the world, providing a historical and geographic perspective that illustrates how people dress and explains the reasons behind the material, design, and style. The encyclopedia features a preface and introduction to its contents. Each entry in the encyclopedia includes a short historical and geographical background for the topic before discussing the clothing of people in that country or region of the world. This work will be of great interest to high school students researching fashion, fashion history, or history as well as to undergraduate students and general readers interested in anthropology, textiles, fashion, ethnology, history, or ethnic dress.
The Mode in Footwear
Author: R. Turner Wilcox
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486467619
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
What shoes were the height of fashion in Paris at the turn of the century? What did Tutankhamen's burial sandals look like? The answers lie in this illustrated compendium covering centuries of footwear, from Egyptian sandals, to Chinese silk wedges used for binding feet, to American saddle oxfords. The definitive work on the subject. "A shoe lover's feast." — Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486467619
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
What shoes were the height of fashion in Paris at the turn of the century? What did Tutankhamen's burial sandals look like? The answers lie in this illustrated compendium covering centuries of footwear, from Egyptian sandals, to Chinese silk wedges used for binding feet, to American saddle oxfords. The definitive work on the subject. "A shoe lover's feast." — Cleveland Plain Dealer.