Author: Maznah Mohamad
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9789813016996
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Malay society of the past has usually been characterized by the presence of the peasantry, a pre-modern class of producers, tied to the land and beholden to a feudalistic or feudal-like ruling structure. In contrast, this book explores the diversity which in fact colours the economic history of the Malays. The subject of this book is a relatively unknown class of people, the handloom weavers, who played a decisive role in the economies of the eastern Malay states of Terengganu, Kelantan, and Pahang. Today, the products of these handloom weavers, the beautiful hand-woven sarongs and cloths, grace the most elegant and auspicious of occasions. What is the story behind the vicissitudes, often brutal, of textile production in the early or proto-industrial phases of the Malay economy? Why was the handloom industry, at its height, halted from realizing its full potential of trans-forming into a full-fledged industrial manufacture? What exactly is the putting-out system of production and how did men and women actualize their roles in such production regimes? Why did the putting-out system endure? In answering such questions this book explores the origins of the Malay handloom industry, its technology, its people, and its turbulent relationship with the ambitions of both the colonial and modern nation-states.
The Malay Handloom Weavers
Author: Maznah Mohamad
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9789813016996
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Malay society of the past has usually been characterized by the presence of the peasantry, a pre-modern class of producers, tied to the land and beholden to a feudalistic or feudal-like ruling structure. In contrast, this book explores the diversity which in fact colours the economic history of the Malays. The subject of this book is a relatively unknown class of people, the handloom weavers, who played a decisive role in the economies of the eastern Malay states of Terengganu, Kelantan, and Pahang. Today, the products of these handloom weavers, the beautiful hand-woven sarongs and cloths, grace the most elegant and auspicious of occasions. What is the story behind the vicissitudes, often brutal, of textile production in the early or proto-industrial phases of the Malay economy? Why was the handloom industry, at its height, halted from realizing its full potential of trans-forming into a full-fledged industrial manufacture? What exactly is the putting-out system of production and how did men and women actualize their roles in such production regimes? Why did the putting-out system endure? In answering such questions this book explores the origins of the Malay handloom industry, its technology, its people, and its turbulent relationship with the ambitions of both the colonial and modern nation-states.
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9789813016996
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Malay society of the past has usually been characterized by the presence of the peasantry, a pre-modern class of producers, tied to the land and beholden to a feudalistic or feudal-like ruling structure. In contrast, this book explores the diversity which in fact colours the economic history of the Malays. The subject of this book is a relatively unknown class of people, the handloom weavers, who played a decisive role in the economies of the eastern Malay states of Terengganu, Kelantan, and Pahang. Today, the products of these handloom weavers, the beautiful hand-woven sarongs and cloths, grace the most elegant and auspicious of occasions. What is the story behind the vicissitudes, often brutal, of textile production in the early or proto-industrial phases of the Malay economy? Why was the handloom industry, at its height, halted from realizing its full potential of trans-forming into a full-fledged industrial manufacture? What exactly is the putting-out system of production and how did men and women actualize their roles in such production regimes? Why did the putting-out system endure? In answering such questions this book explores the origins of the Malay handloom industry, its technology, its people, and its turbulent relationship with the ambitions of both the colonial and modern nation-states.
The Silk Weavers of Kyoto
Author: Tamara Hareven
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520935764
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for kimono, they find their livelihood and pride harder to sustain. This book is a poignant exploration of a vanishing world. Tamara Hareven integrates historical research with intensive life history interviews to reveal the relationships among family, work, and community in this highly specialized occupation. Hareven uses her knowledge of textile workers' lives in the United States and Western Europe to show how striking similarities in weavers' experiences transcend cultural differences. These very rich personal testimonies, taken over a decade and a half, provide insight into how these men and women have juggled family and work roles and coped with insecurities. Readers can learn firsthand how weavers perceive their craft and how they interpret their lives and view the world around them. With rare immediacy, The Silk Weavers of Kyoto captures a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520935764
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for kimono, they find their livelihood and pride harder to sustain. This book is a poignant exploration of a vanishing world. Tamara Hareven integrates historical research with intensive life history interviews to reveal the relationships among family, work, and community in this highly specialized occupation. Hareven uses her knowledge of textile workers' lives in the United States and Western Europe to show how striking similarities in weavers' experiences transcend cultural differences. These very rich personal testimonies, taken over a decade and a half, provide insight into how these men and women have juggled family and work roles and coped with insecurities. Readers can learn firsthand how weavers perceive their craft and how they interpret their lives and view the world around them. With rare immediacy, The Silk Weavers of Kyoto captures a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.
Report from Select Committee on Hand-loom Weavers' Petitions
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Hand-loom Weavers' Petitions
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Weaver's Wage
Author: Edward Mayall Gray
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Wages
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN:
Category : Wages
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Weaving the Word
Author: Kathryn Sullivan Kruger
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575910529
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
"Through an analysis of specific weaving stories, the difference between a text and a textile becomes blurred. Such stories portray women weavers transforming their domestic activity of making textiles into one of making texts by inscribing their cloth with both personal and political messages."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575910529
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
"Through an analysis of specific weaving stories, the difference between a text and a textile becomes blurred. Such stories portray women weavers transforming their domestic activity of making textiles into one of making texts by inscribing their cloth with both personal and political messages."--BOOK JACKET.
House documents
Labour Statistics
Author: Great Britain. Board of Trade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Directories
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Weaving a California Tradition
Author:
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822526605
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Follows an eleven-year-old Western Mono Indian, as she and her relatives prepare materials needed for basketweaving, make the baskets, and attend the California Indian Basketweavers Association's annual gathering.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822526605
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Follows an eleven-year-old Western Mono Indian, as she and her relatives prepare materials needed for basketweaving, make the baskets, and attend the California Indian Basketweavers Association's annual gathering.
Report of Proceedings at the Annual Trades Union Congress
Author: Trades Union Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Weaving a Future
Author: Elayne Zorn
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587295229
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rock.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587295229
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rock.