Essays on Embroidery

  Fashion can carry significant meanings about culture, tradition and the outlook of people around the world. Fashion not only encompasses many social issues but also individual backgrounds of people, and it can be a very useful tool in expressing one’s personal identity. According to Barber, "Fashion has also been used in reference to language usages, literature, food, dance music, recreation, indeed the whole range of social and culture elements" (Barber, 1993). Throughout history it has been evident that, fashion has revealed itself during the evolution and revolution of many aspects of issues, including but not limited to class ...

Kaaba, the ancient stone architectural structure, is the center of the Islamic world, the unifying historic monument which every Muslim desires to visit at least once in life. This is required by one of the Five Pillars of Islam. The pilgrimage to Kaaba is called the hajj. Kaaba is called the house of Allah. It is located inside the Grand Mosque in the ancient city of Mecca (or Makkah), in Saudi Arabia. During their prayers, Muslim all over the world face the direction of Kaaba. This direction is called the Qibla. The wall adjacent to the Kaaba’s entrance ...

The Institutional Affiliation

No matter how far life takes us, our heart still belongs to the place where we were born and raised. Times and events force people to move, change continents and countries, find a new home and, therewith, change traditions, lifestyle, themselvesNevertheless, each and every person tries to remember and find out their roots and origin. How you ever tried to imagine your family couple of hundred years ago? How would it look like, what language would you speak, what country would you live in, how would you celebrate holidays, and so on? Have you ever thought about how all ...

Eighteenth century how to become an icon in the history of fashion and influence our life

Embellishment, poise, elegance are some of the adjectives that can be used to describe the trend in art and architecture of 18th century. The age witnessed the most elegant and stylish way of fashion. It can also be called as a fashionable era. 18th Century era is generally known as the Age of Enlightenment. The beginning of this century experienced a significant change in culture, art and architecture. Fashion industry also was on its peak. The fashion centre in this era shifted from Versailles to Paris. The educated Aristocratic class was called bourgeoisie class. They settled down in Paris. The new ...

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Introduction

Rapid changes in the way we communicate across the world have brought about significant changes in the last two decades. As an individual or as a professional, one can see and experience the effect of this globalization in our lives everywhere. Food, culture, art and fashion provide outlets for the reflection of a variety of cultures in a single setting. As a fashion designer, one has to be conscious of these influences that emanate from all parts of the world. As the world grows closer together, cultural influences from one or more parts of the world are likely to make an ...

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My grandmother is probably the most loving person in my life. She had a heart full of love for all the world and even those that had hurt her, would always find shelter, should they need her help. I could not understand how she could be THAT forgiving, but perhaps that was her gift. Maybe she had done her self-criticism and found out the true meaning of life, when the rest of us were struggling to find who we really are. She would go to the church every Sunday and pray for those in need. A distinguishing trait in my ...

Embroidery is the skill of fabric decoration or other materials with a filament/yarn using a needle. Pearls metal strips, beads, sequins and quills are also used as materials for doing the decoration of garments. The art of fabric decoration is highly used in making caps, golf shirts, coats, blankets, dress skirts and many more. Yarn or threads have been used widely in the art of embroidery. The embroidery aspect has vital techniques or stitches of making holes in the button areas, or a running stitch, stitch used in making blankets, cross stitch and a stitch called satin and the elemental techniques of hand ...

The instrument in constructing the gender values in supporting the general patriarch particularly to define the concept of gaze was proposed by Laura Mulvey. It relates to the Freudian principles of psychoanalysis. This term is also evident in art history defied as the strange sense on how the world looks back at us. It does not really refer to someone but instead something that imagined by us in other’s field. It serves as a disturbance on the visual field of the unconscious mind; it is generally a partial perception that always there to tell us that something is beyond our ...