The award-winning textile artist presents her modern approach to 150 fabric manipulation techniques in this fully illustrated sewing guide.In Fabric Manipulation, Ruth Singer presents the most in-depth and comprehensive guide to sculptural and embellishing effects since Collette Wolff's The Art of Manipulating Fabric.Divided into three sections—Pleat and Fold, Stitch and Gather, Apply and Layer— Fabric Manipulation teaches sewists ...

Mawng is a language of western Arnhem Land. It is the main language of Warruwi community and is spoken by all generations. Mawng is associated with the islands Warruwi and Weyirra (North and South Goulburn Islands) and an area of the mainland near the islands. The Mawng Dictionary is the most comprehensive ever published. It contains information about plants and animals, cultural practices, place names, and kinship terms, including tri-relational kunteypi terms. There is an introd...

This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It explores how language use and people’s ideas about language are embedded in contemporary Indigenous life there.Using an ethnographic approach, the book examines what language at Warruwi means in the context of the history of the community, ongoing social and political changes and the continuing importance of ancestral traditions. Children growing up at ...

“Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-1875), the man who made the sewing machine work and drove New York’s most flamboyant equipage, was also, on the sly, the father of four families comprising (when the news broke) sixteen children, all of whom he recognized and supported — a story told full-length for the first time because, Ruth Brandon speculates, neither the firm nor the family wished to see it revived. For her, the scandal is secondary to Singer the archetypal American entrepreneur, restless, ...

Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly SillsAround the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa Teng. Topics includ...

Originally published in 1968. The author, a well-known contemporary and friend of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs, collected a tremendous store of folk music material over many years and eventually decided to put some of it on permanent record. This book comprises a cross-section of rescued melodies dating back to medieval days and up to the Victorian early ballads. It describes individual folk singers in Somerset in great detail as personal accounts and documents their lyrics and their tun...