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Fowler Museum at UCLA. Used - Like New. Fine. Paperback. 2007.

Fowler Museum at UCLA. Used - Very Good. 2007. Paperback. Pap. Minor shelf wear. Else clean copy. Very Good.

Fowler Museum at UCLA. New. 2007. Paperback. In publisher's shrinkwrap. New.

Fowler Museum, 2008-02. Paperback. Good.

Fowler Museum, 2008-02-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2007. Softcover. Good+ (clean, bright, tight but for a very few check marks next to names in the index; bump to lower right corner). Color-illus. card wraps with deep French flaps. 187 pp. with color images and bw maps throughout, numbered by chapter. Asia is renowned for the production of fine handwoven cottons and luxurious silks -important items of trade for centuries. In addition to these celebrated fabrics, however, weavers throughout the region produced cloth from ramie, hemp, pina, and banana fibers (including Philippine abaca and Okinawan ito basho), as well as a number of lesser-known plant fibers. Over the course of the twentieth century, many of these Asian plant fiber weaving traditions became marginalized or hovered on the brink of extinction, given the advent of synthetic fabrics, growing industrialization, and increased international textile trade. As the essays in this book testify, however, they have not vanished altogether. Rather, in recent… Read More

Univ of California Museum of, 2008. Paperback. New. illustrated edition. 187 pages. 11.50x8.75x0.75 inches.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2003. Softcover. Fine. 4to. Fine book. Inscribed by one of the author's on the front free endpaper. A fine copy.

Museum; University of Washington Press (Distribution). New. 2008. Paperback. 0974872989 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 188 pp. With 219 ills. (201 col. ). 31 x 23 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- .