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It is over 50 years since On Weaving was first published in 1965, but in this new edition it is as fresh and inspiring as ever. Indeed, the colour plates alone . . . could furnish hours of contemplation.---Cally Brooker, Journal of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers The chief argument of the book--that the hand-made and mechanically reproduced can happily co-exist--is told visually as well as verbally. . . . [Anni Albers] emerges from the new On Weaving as both a historical figure and a living one.---Charles Darwent, Burlington Magazine On Weaving is a book that one reads again and again for the insightful logic about the meaning of art, and the reasons and methods governing the creation of good design. Anni Albers is perhaps more relevant today than she was during her lifetime. --Virginia Gardner Troy, author of Anni Albers and Ancient American Textiles: From Bauhaus to Black Mountain With enviable clarity, Albers reviews the basics of weaving materials and techniques while threading the history of weaving from Peru and Persia to China, Europe, and beyond. Her emphasis on tactility seems especially urgent today, as she offers the next generation a profound corrective to an increasingly digital monoculture. --Jenny Anger, author of Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art [A] pioneering compendium.---Leslie Camhi, T Magazine

[A] pioneering compendium.---Leslie Camhi, T Magazine

On Weaving is a book that one reads again and again for the insightful logic about the meaning of art, and the reasons and methods governing the creation of good design. Anni Albers is perhaps more relevant today than she was during her lifetime. --Virginia Gardner Troy, author of Anni Albers and Ancient American Textiles: From Bauhaus to Black Mountain With enviable clarity, Albers reviews the basics of weaving materials and techniques while threading the history of weaving from Peru and Persia to China, Europe, and beyond. Her emphasis on tactility seems especially urgent today, as she offers the next generation a profound corrective to an increasingly digital monoculture. --Jenny Anger, author of Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art [A] pioneering compendium.---Leslie Camhi, T Magazine

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Anni Albers (18991994) was one of the foremost textile artists of the twentieth century; her works are in major museum collections around the world. Nicholas Fox Weber is executive director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the author of The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism. Manuel Cirauqui is curator at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. T'ai Smith is associate professor of art history at the University of British Columbia and the author of Bauhaus Weaving Theory.

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