Can I check this book on the history of tie-dye out of an American library?

Name: Emari

—ADVERTISEMENTS—

q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL110_&ASIN=477002777X&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=dyeblog-20&ServiceVersion=20070822

Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now

by Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada

Shibori is infinitely more than the tie-dye that became well known in the late 1960s. Shaped-resist dyeing techniques have been done for centuries in every corner of the world.

Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing

by Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Mary Kellogg Rice, and Jane J. Barton

Country or region: United States

Message: Hi, I'm a student on my way to high school and for my end of the year comm.arts quiz we are doing demonstration speeches and mine is on Tie-dye. Now on your website it has a reference on a book...Michael Abotts Indian and Asian Traditional Textiles. My question is, would I be able to check that out in an American library? Thanks.

There are books on the subject that you should be able to check out of the library, but the one you're referring to is not a book at all. What you're asking about was a link to a website, "Michael Abbott's Indian & Asian Traditional Textiles Website," not to a book; the link appeared on my page, "A Few Notes on the History of Tie Dye". The link to the website had broken, because the page was moved. (I will correct that on my site, thanks for bringing it to my attention.) The correct link should be: http://www.jaintextiles.com/india/tie_dye.htm. The original page was copyrighted in 2000 by Michael Abbott. You can learn more about Michael Abbot here.

The claim that I was referencing with that link was that "Indian Bandhani, one traditional form of tie-dyeing, began some 5000 years ago." Mr. Abbott wrote, about bandhani, "The process is believed to have originated in the area some 5000 years ago and seems to have remained in production ever since."

It would be better for you to get a book from the library, as you suggested, if possible. The book Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now, by Yoshiko Wada, should be available from your local public library system. Its ISBN is 477002777X, and it was published in 2002. If your local library branch does not have it, they may be able to order it from another branch in the same library system. Contact them as soon as possible, since it may take several days for them to get it for you. If they cannot get it from another library branch, then they can certainly order it for you by Interlibrary Loan, but books can take two or more weeks to arrive when ordered from another county or state via Interlibrary Loan. ILL is a wonderful resource, but does take extra planning time. You should also go to your local library, and check to see if there are any other books in the general area of 746.66, in the adult non-fiction area of the library, as this is the Dewey Decimal number for information about tie-dyeing.

In Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now, on page 28, the author writes, "A great profusion of shibori craft is found in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent in the Indus River basin, one of the cradles of human civilization, where archeological finds in Mohenjodaro suggest that dyeing was done as early as 4000 BC. The earliest examples of the most pervasive type of Indian shibori, bandhani, can be seen in the sixth- and seventh-century paintings depicting the life of Buddha found on the wall of Cave 1 at Ajanta. Among the courtiers and ladies in the palace of Price Siddhartha, some wear bodices patterned with spots that seem to be bandhani dots, and many wear wraps with flame-striped patterns like those produced by ikat."

Good luck with your demonstration speech.

(Please help support this web site. Thank you.)

Posted: Sunday - May 20, 2012 at 02:45 PM

Follow this blog on twitter here.
Tweet

getBlogName(); > getCategoryName("<$EntryCategoryFolder$>"); >

Can I check this book on the history of tie-dye out of an American library?

> >