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Isishweshwe a history of the indigenisation of blueprint in Southern Africa / Juliette Leeb-du Toit   Author:  Leeb-du Toit, Juliette author Title:  Isishweshwe a history of the indigenisation of blueprint in Southern Africa / Juliette Leeb-du Toit Publisher:  Pietermaritzburg, South Africa University of KwaZulu-Natal Press 2017 Description:  302 pages chiefly color illustrations 23 cm Summary:  "The cross-cultural usage of a particular cloth type called 'blueprint' is central to South African cultural history. Known locally as seshoeshoe or isishweshwe, among many other localized names, South African blueprint originated in the Far East and East Asia. Adapted and absorbed by the West, blueprint in Africa was originally associated with trade, coercion, colonisation, Westernisation, religious conversion, and even slavery, but residing within its hues and patterns was a resonance that endured. The cloth came to reflect histories of hardship, courage, and survival, but it also conveyed the taste and aesthetic predilections of its users, preferences often shared across racial and cultural divides. In its indigenisation, isishweshwe has subverted its former history and alien origins to come to reflect the authority of its users and their culture, conveying resilience, innovation, adaptation, and above all a distinctive South Africanness. In this book, Juliette Leeb-du Toit traces the origins of the cloth, its early usage and cultural adaptations, and its emerging regional, cultural, and aesthetic significance. In examining its usage and current national significance, she highlights some of the salient features associated with histories of indigenisation. An art historian who has a particular interest in African and South African art, Juliette Leeb-du Toit has also had a lifelong interest in design and textiles. She is currently engaged in the recovery of modernisms in design history, the impact of German modernism in South Africa, and the impact of China on the arts in South Africa." --Publisher Bibliography Note:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index Contents:  Indigo textiles in context -- Early cape dress in context -- Frontier, voortrekker and pioneer dress -- German missionaries, Blaudruck and German settlers -- Modern European and American blueprint in context -- Modern British blueprint in context -- Da Gama textiles and isiShweshwe -- Traders and isiShweshwe -- Cultural usage of isiShweshwe in Lesotho and Swasiland -- Cultural usage of isiShweshwe in South Africa, Botswana and Nimibia -- isiShweshwe dress and its modernities -- Appendix: Naming isiShweshwe designs Subject:  Clothing and dress -- South Africa -- History Clothing and dress -- South Africa -- German influences Resist-dyed textiles -- South Africa -- History Textile fabrics -- South Africa Textile crafts -- South Africa Textiles et tissus -- Afrique du Sud. Clothing and dress Resist-dyed textiles Textile crafts Textile fabrics Blaudruck South Africa Südafrika Genre:  History Added Title:  History of the indigenisation of blueprint in South Africa Catalog Source No.:  (OCoLC)ocn989062645 ISBN:  1869143140 9781869143145 Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Barcode Status   GT1588 .L44 2017 African Art 39088019766518 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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