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Lark Books / Interweave Press, Published 1987. Hardcover, 160 pp.; 29 cm; first edition; illustrated with 64 color photographs, 48 black-and-white photographs, and 165 structural diagrams. Photography by David Cripps.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Maroon boards with gilt lettering to spine; mild scuffing and fading to edges of covers and light shelfwear. Binding tight. Light spotting to top edge of text block; otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket illustrated with a color photograph of woven textile objects on front and a color photograph of a tasseled hair ornament on reverse; a few small nicks and light creasing to edges; mild tape residue at top and bottom edges of jacket; light overall shelfwear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.[From front jacket flap] "The Maker's Hand is an inspiring resource book for engineers, architects, designers, weavers and other craftsmen, and indeed all those involved in assembling threadlike elements into functional structures. Peter Collingwood, for whom structure is a consuming interest, has selected over ninety objects from around the world, each of which he analyses in detail, revealing the inevitable beauty that can be achieved only by a marriage between appropriate materials and ideal structure. In many cases the structures have been evolved and perfected over centuries. All the objects, which range from Indian camel girths to the springs of a US army Jeep seat, from Japanese triaxial silk to Botswanan beer strainers, and from Masonic ribbons to a tuareg hat, have been specially photographed by David Cripps to complement the author's analytical diagrams. Together they provide a book of outstanding visual appeal. Few people have the knowledge and experience to understand and analyse so wide a range of structures, but Peter Collingwood does so triumphantly, offering a unique insight into the balance of material and structure that should be the basis of all design."Contents: Introduction; One Single Element (Interlacing; Simple Looping; Concentrated Looping; Interlocking); Two Single Elements (Linking); One Set of Elements (Linking; Oblique Interlacing); Two Single Elements (Weft Twining; Oblique Twining; Knotting); Two Sets of Elements; Miscellaneous; Glossary.