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The classic book on the art and history of weaving-now expanded and in full colorWritten by one of the twentieth century's leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design. First published in 1965, On Weaving bridges the transition between handcraft and the machine-made, highlighting the essential importance of material awareness and the creative leaps that can occur when design problems are tackled by hand.With her focus on materials and handlooms, Anni Albers discusses how technology and mass production place limits on creativity and problem solving, and makes the case for a renewed embrace of human ingenuity that is particularly important today. Her lucid and engaging prose is illustrated with a wealth of rare and extraordinary images showing the history of the medium, from hand-drawn diagrams and close-ups of pre-Columbian textiles to material studies with corn, paper, and the typewriter, as well as illuminating examples of her own work.Now available for a new generation of readers, this expanded edition of On Weaving updates the book's original black-and-white illustrations with full-color photos, and features an afterword by Nicholas Fox Weber and essays by Manuel Cirauqui and T'ai Smith that shed critical light on Albers and her career.

Weaving. --- Textile design. --- Actor–network theory. --- Anni Albers. --- Art critic. --- Art movement. --- Art. --- Basile Bouchon. --- Basket weaving. --- Ben Nicholson. --- Bibliography. --- Black Mountain College. --- Bobbin. --- Braid. --- Brooklyn Museum. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Career. --- Carpet. --- Cave painting. --- Chemistry. --- Chintz. --- Clothing. --- Consideration. --- Crêpe (textile). --- Damask. --- Design. --- Designer. --- Diagram. --- Drawing. --- Dye. --- Dyeing. --- Exhibition catalogue. --- Fiber art. --- Finishing (textiles). --- Gauze. --- Handbook. --- Handicraft. --- Heat. --- Heddle. --- Hooper (coachbuilder). --- Illustration. --- Industrial design. --- Instance (computer science). --- Interlocking. --- Invention. --- Jean Arp. --- Josef Albers. --- Knitting. --- Knot. --- Lecture. --- Leno weave. --- Lenore Tawney. --- Lightness. --- Loom. --- Mass production. --- Mechanization. --- Metropolitan Museum of Art. --- Meyer Schapiro. --- Michel Seuphor. --- Notation. --- Nylon. --- Obsolescence. --- Painting. --- Paragraph. --- Paul Klee. --- Plagiarism. --- Porosity. --- Power loom. --- Printing. --- Processing (programming language). --- Proportion (architecture). --- Publication. --- Quantity. --- Raw material. --- Reprint. --- Requirement. --- Rijksmuseum. --- Room divider. --- Satin. --- Selvage. --- Shaving. --- Shirt. --- Structural element. --- Synthetic fiber. --- Textile arts. --- Textile sample. --- Textile. --- Theory. --- Tongue depressor. --- Treadle (railway). --- Treadle. --- Twill. --- Typewriter. --- Typography. --- Wallpaper. --- Waterproofing. --- Work of art. --- Writing. --- Yale University Art Gallery. --- Yarn.