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Textile art promoting well-being in long-term illness: Some general and specific influences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The paper reviews previous research into the meanings of textile art-making for people living with long-term illness. Qualitative accounts of the creative process suggest that textile art-making is a multi-dimensional experience.
Reynolds, F
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Transdisciplinarity and Reflective and Creative Thinking through Art in Teacher Training

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2023
This article presents research on a creative and reflective thinking proposal conducted in the Early Childhood Education teaching degree program of the University of Valencia. The proposal was planned from a transdisciplinary perspective and combines art,
María Dolores Soto-González   +2 more
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Documenting The Richness of Indonesia Through The Cultural Color of Sumatera’s Traditional Textile and Culinary Product

open access: yesHumaniora, 2016
Analysis of cultural color was an approach to a better understanding color from cultural stand point, unlike the others color studies which looked at the psychological aspect of color.
Mita Purbasari, Anita Rahardja
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Steps towards Sustainability in Fashion: Snapshot Bangladesh A resource for fashion students and educators [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This publication offers three case studies, alongside ideas of how they could be used to develop thinking in fashion education. They illustrate some of the different ways sustainability is being approached and interpreted through fashion business in ...
Parker, Elizabeth
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A Mathematic Expression of Art: Sino-Iranian and Uighur Textile Interaction and the Turfan Textile Collection in Berlin

open access: yesThe Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2014
This article presents some of the first technical and visual results of the analysis carried out on the Turfan Textile Collection in the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin; they will be incorporated into a forthcoming larger study.
Mariachiara Gasparini
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A solution to fashion textile un-sustainability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Today, polarisation of the fashion textile industry has already begun as smart, intelligent and conscientious fashion emerges as a backlash to the experience of choice fatigue, poor quality, dumb design and greenwash.
Farrer, Joan, Finn, Angie
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Symbolic aspects of coping with chronic illness through textile arts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
(Taken from Introduction) The relevance of art for people living with chronic physical illness is gradually being recognized (Kaye & Blee, 1997; Malchiodi, 1999). Chronic physical illness poses more than physical and functional problems.
Reynolds, F
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Creative adventures and flow in art-making: A qualitative study of women living with cancer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
(Introduction) A diagnosis of cancer is recognised as highly fear-arousing. People not only face the discomforts of potentially disfiguring medical treatment but also confront issues of mortality.
Prior, S, Reynolds, F
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What do Textiles Teachers Really Think: The Findings of a National Research Pilot Project.

open access: yes, 2021
The work presented here serves to document the results of a national survey of in excess of one hundred and forty classroom practitioners and middle leaders about the current situation of textiles technology within their place of work. (School, Academy).
Wooff, David   +2 more
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‘For the convenience and comfort of the persons employed by them’: The Lowell Corporation Hospital, 1839-1930’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The first industrial hospital in America opened in 1840 in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Lowell Corporation Hospital was sponsored by the town’s textile employers for ninety years. This article analyses the contextual complications surrounding the employers’
Greenlees, Janet
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