BA2 THEORY CLASS - TEXTILES IN SOCIETY - WEAVING AS POLITICAL SYMBOL (YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS ONE) GROUP SEMINAR PRESENTATION
WEAVING AS METAPHOR AND MODEL FOR POLITICAL THOUGHT. ARTHUR C. DANTO. 2006.
1. WEAVING AS MYTHOLOGY AND STORYTELLING
In later European folklore, weaving retained its connection with magic. Mother Goose, traditional teller of fairy tales, is often associated with spinning.[5] She was known as "Goose-Footed Bertha" or Reine Pédauque ("Goose-footed Queen") in French legends as spinning incredible tales that enraptured children.
The daughter who, her father claimed, could spin straw into gold and was forced to demonstrate her talent, aided by the dangerous earth-daemon Rumpelstiltskin was an old tale when the Brothers Grimm collected it. Similarly, the unwilling spinner of the tale The Three Spinners is aided by three mysterious old women. In The Six Swans, the heroine spins and weaves starwort in order to free her brothers from a shapeshifting curse. Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle are enchanted and bring the prince to marry the poor heroine. Sleeping Beauty, in all her forms, pricks her finger on a spindle, and the curse falls on her.[6] (Wikipedia, 2013).
And in poetry
'The Lady of Shalott', William Holman Hunt, 1905 inspired by the poem of the same name by Alfred Tennyson, 1933 and 1842.
Cross cultural fairy stories
the story of the snow child is of similar import in Russia as Little Red Riding or Snow White in our own country. Like many fairy tales, there are many different ways it is told, but it always begins the same. (Ivey, 2012, pp.130-131).
2. TEXTILES AS POLITICAL
From today's BA1 class
From today's BA1 class
Highland soldiers in tartan, 18th C
Black Watch tartan
REFERENCE
Danto, A.C. in Hemmings, J. (ed.) (2012) The textile reader. London: Berg.
Ivey, E. (2012) The snow child. London: Headline.
Wikipedia (2013) 'Weaving (mythology). Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving_(mythology) (Accessed 5 February 2014).
Danto, A.C. in Hemmings, J. (ed.) (2012) The textile reader. London: Berg.
Ivey, E. (2012) The snow child. London: Headline.
Wikipedia (2013) 'Weaving (mythology). Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving_(mythology) (Accessed 5 February 2014).
