Myth & Magic: Symbols of Tradition - Part 3: Function - Technique & Dyes

by Thomas Cole

The third in a series of five parts from Myth & Symbols of Tradition. This section covers why and for what purpose the varying weavings served, featuring many photographs of rare and beautiful rugs and bags ranging from from Anatolia to the Far East and China. The rugs and bags are defined in a manner that has not previously been previously handled in this way. The author is eminently qualified to write, offering comments in an style accessible to all, including the neophyte collectors to the most experienced curators of textile art. It includes 35 color photographs of rare rugs and textiles, 16 pages of information previously unpublished. Due to the constraints of the Kindle platform, Part 3 can be no longer than these two chapters.

27 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 24, 2020

About the author

Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility, he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil on canvas. His paintings are typically allegoric and often depict small figures or structures set against moody and evocative natural landscapes. They are usually escapist, framing the New World as a natural eden contrasting with the smog-filled cityscapes of Industrial Revolution-era Britain, in which he grew up. His works, often seen as conservative, criticize the contemporary trends of industrialism, urbanism, and westward expansion.