A Philosophy of Textile

Between Practice and Theory

Catherine Dormor (Royal College of Art, UK)

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
30 June 2022

Textile design & theory; Philosophy: aesthetics

Textile is at once a language, a concept and a material thing. Philosophers such as Plato, Deleuze and Derrida have notably drawn on weaving processes to illustrate their ideas, and artists such as Ann Hamilton, Louise Bourgeois and Chiharu Shiota explore matters such as the seam, the needle and thread, and the flow of viscous materials in their work. Yet thinking about textile and making textile are often treated as separate and distinct practices, rather than parallel modes.

This beautifully illustrated book brings together for the first time the language and materiality of textile to develop new models of thinking, writing and making. Through the work of thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray, and international artists like Eva Hesse and Helen Chadwick, textile practitioner, theorist and writer Catherine Dormor puts forward a new philosophy of textile. Exploring the material behaviours and philosophical language of folding, shimmering, seaming, viscosity, fraying and caressing, Dormor demonstrates how textile practice and theory are intricately woven together.

By: Catherine Dormor (Royal College of Art UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350195837
ISBN 10: 1350195839
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 30 June 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Plates Acknowledgements Introduction Textile as Making: techne between practice and theory Weaving the Chapters (Inter)mingling Chapter One: Folding An Unfolding of Making Metaphorics and Metonymy as Enfolded Modes for Thinking Textile–Space La Maison Baroque Folding–Seaming–Fraying Chapter Two: Textile as Shimmering Surface Veils: a space of scintillation Faintly Gleaming Illicit Encounters Absurdity Through the Looking Glass Chapter Three: Seaming Seaming as Passage Hand & Machine Stitching Seaming as Suturing Seaming as Trace Conjunctions & Crossings Chapter Four: Textile as Viscous Substance Attacking the Boundary Collapsing Boundaries Flow Ontological Secretions A substance between two states Chapter Five: Fraying Frayed and Fraying: a politics of translation Frayed and Fraying Cloth: broken and contingent To the Edge: pointing away from the centre Worn Through Fraying Chapter Six: Textile as Caressing Subject/Object Affective Touching Proximity Opening Out-Becoming Measuring Distance First Actions of Hands Synoptic-Synesthetic Caressing Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Catherine Dormor is a practising artist, Reader in Textile Practices and Head of Research Programmes and at the Royal College of Art, London UK.

Reviews for A Philosophy of Textile: Between Practice and Theory

The bibliography is extensive, giving an interesting insight into the metaphorical use of the words that textiles have made to the language. * Book Threads * Dormor provides a crucial model of integrated writing about practice that entwines the academic and creative voice. In the face of much writing that adopts linear models not because of their usefulness, but for lack of another model, here the academic and creative voice finally hold “theory” and “practice” as one. * Jessica Hemmings, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland *