The Art Is the Cloth: How to Look at and Understand Tapestries. A colorful guided tour from an expert, enabling weavers, textile lovers, and art lovers to notice and appreciate what tapestries can do and how they do it.
 
This guide from expert tapestry weaver and historian Sidore gives how to strategies enabling weavers and non weavers to notice and appreciate the meaning of these artworks. You'll discover much to enjoy in photos of more than 300 tapestries from the 12th to the 21st centuries. Sidore enables you to think about the weavings in ways you have never before considered as she groups pieces that talk with each other and that also converse with the viewer. Enjoy learning basic elements of weaving to help you become increasingly sophisticated in understanding what you're seeing.
 
224 pp | 304 color and b/w photos