The Shishu Ladies of Hilo : : Japanese Embroidery in Hawai`i / / Sara Nunes-Atabaki, Shiho S. Nunes.
A carefully documented and illustrated account of the stitching community on the Big Island of Hawai'i from the mid 1930s to the late 1960s. This award-winning book traces the teaching of shishu (Japanese embroidery) in Hawai'i and describes in detail the modifications made to traditional...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1999] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Extraordinary Lives: The Experience of Hawaii Nisei
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (156 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Conventions
- Part I. The Hilo Shishü
- 1. Gathering the Threads
- 2. The Hilo Shishü Community
- 3. Old Ways Done Differently
- Part II. Threads from the Past
- 4. An Enduring Partnership
- 5. Life Was Hard!
- 6. “Great Were the Ladies of Meiji!”
- Part III. From Design to Stitched Art
- 7. Design for Needle and Thread
- 8. Thread into Art
- 9. The Shishü Experience
- Appendix A. A Short History of Shishü in Japan
- Appendix B. Roster of the Shishu Ladies
- Appendix C. Notes
- Bibliography