Threads of Light: Chinese Embroidery from Suzhou and the Photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History textile series, no. 3) [But will it still be beautiful? -- In pursuit of texture: a collaboration with the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute -- Technical aspects of Suzhou embroidery]

171 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm. ; ISBN 9780930741709, 9780930741716, 0930741706, 0930741714 ; OCLC 40267276 ; SIGNED PRESENTATION by author Jo Q. Hill, on flyleaf ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Introduction / Zhang Meifang -- But will it still be beautiful? / Patrick Dowdey -- In pursuit of texture: a collaboration with the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute / Robert Glenn Ketchum -- Technical aspects of Suzhou embroidery / Jo Q. Hill ; "Intrigued with the possibility of integrating texture in his work, American landscape photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum has a long-standing collaboration with the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute (SERI) in China. This volume describes the history of SERI with illustrations of its traditional embroidery and then proceeds to pair Ketchum's photographic images with their exquisite embroidered counterparts. Essays locate the achievement of the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute within the context of traditional Chinese embroidery and trace the willingness to innovate that has long characterized this remarkable institution." Source: Publisher ; FINE.…