Essays about: "embroidery"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 18 essays containing the word embroidery.

1. 6. Investigating construction and design parameters of an embroidered resistive pressure sensor

   University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

   Author : Linn Bergmark Giesler; [2021]
   Keywords : electronic textiles; smart textiles; e-broidery; resistive pressure sensor; conductive embroidery; resistance-pressure relationship;

   Abstract : Electronic textiles, or smart textiles, is a field that is growing due to the opportunities it provides. Textile integrated electronics enables soft, flexible, lightweight electronic devices that enable long term monitoring within the medical field. Pressure sensors is one device within this field that has been researched. READ MORE

3. 7. Hanging on by a thread : Confronting mental illness and manifesting love through embroidery

   University essay from Konstfack/Textil

   Author : Maja Bäckström; [2020]
   Keywords : embroidery; textile craft; occupational therapy; eating disorders; body image; love;

   Abstract : In this paper I investigate the emotional benefits of textile crafts in general and embroidery in particular. How can embroidery be used to express love and care for others? Can embroidery be used as a therapeutic tool? Using my own embroidery project Flower heart as a starting point, my research goes into craft as a manifestation of love, from handmade gifts in the 18th century to contemporary art, and crafting as a therapeutic medium, from rehabilitation of soldiers after WW1, to a recent study on 92 Finnish craft makers. READ MORE

4. 8. Tatreez Online : The Transformation of a Palestinian Tradition

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier

   Author : Silvia Ulloa; [2020]
   Keywords : embroidery; Palestine; tatreez; Internet; social media; diaspora;

   Abstract : Traditional Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) played an important role as a form of indigenous language in Palestinian culture before the Nakba, the 1948 mass displacement of Palestinians from their homeland. After the exile of the Palestinian population and through the subsequent conflicts and occupation in the decades since the Nakba, tatreez has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance, represented in art and dress as a way to demonstrate the history of the Palestinian people, their attachment to the land of Palestine, and their continued struggle for justice. READ MORE

5. 9. The invocation of X

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK - Högskolan för design och konsthantverk

   Author : Klara Bothén; [2019-07-15]
   Keywords : Textil; Formgivning; Steneby;

   Abstract : “The Invocation of X” takes its beginning in a narrative about domestic textile handicrafts in a historical perspective. This is in turn connected to other stories: handicrafts as a political strategy, secret societies, and the shared matrix of textile and digital structures. READ MORE

6. 10. Electrolytic Cleaning of Silver Threads -Effects of Electrolytes on the Condition of Silk

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

   Author : Karin Hindborg; [2019-06-19]
   Keywords : Silver threads; silk; cleaning; reduction; local electrolysis; the Pleco;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates localised electrolytic reduction as a method to clean tarnish on silver threads on silk. The tool used is an electrolytic pen called the Pleco that was developed for local treatment of metals on composite objects. READ MORE