Threads of Light: Chinese Embroidery from Suzhou and the Photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Textile Series ; No.3) [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]

171 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm. Catalog accompanying an exhibition at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History ; ISBN 9780930741709 0930741714 0930741706 9780930741716 LCCN 98031905 Classification - LC NK9298.S8 A4 1999 Classification - Dewey 746.440951136 OCLC 40267276 ; grey cloth with silver lettering in color photographic dustjacket ; SIGNED by author Robert Glenn Ketcham, on the half-title ; 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. ; 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 ; ; large, folio volume, with several fold-out color illustrations ; FINE.FINE.…