ANNE WANNER'S Textiles in History / book reviews, articles |
Modeband,
Seidenbänder aus Basel, by: Therese
Schaltenbrand Felber, Ingrid Loschek, Margret Ribbert,
Irmgard Peter, Wiebke Koch-Mertens, Sabine Strebel,
Barbara Alder, Nathalie Unternährer, contributions by
Kurt Aeschbacher, Raffael Blechschmidt, Christa de
Carouge, Martin Leuthold, André Stutz, Basel, 2004, 271
pages, over 200 coloured and black and white photos, in
german language. ISBN 3-85616-220-8 www.christoph-merian-verlag.ch |
The book deals with silk and
other textile ribbons in fashion. Ingrid Loschek, the
well known specialist and author of many books on
fashion, gives a survey of the development of the ribbon
in fashion. Margret Ribbert, historian and curator of the
Historic Museum of Basle writes about the use of ribbons
in the fashion of hats. Irmgard Peter, former curator of
the Basle Museum very closely looks at the pattern and
motives in the ribbon production. With more than 100
pages and with very good photographs, this part of the
book shows excellent examples of the Basle silk ribbon
industry. Wiebke Koch-Mertens gives an outlook into the
21st century, with her students she developped several
projects on where to use ribbons in the future. Also the special history of the region of Basle in Switzerland is dealt with. Barbara Alder, Therese Schaltenbrand Felber, Nathalie Unternährer, three young historians, living and working around Basle give a survey of this textile industry in the north west of Switzerland. Sabine Strebel, her too historian, shows a collection of early photographs, which were not made for fashion parades. They point to the everyday use of this accessory. Some well known people were also interviewed and they give short ideas about their favorite silk ribbon: Christa de Carouge, fashion designer living and working in Geneva and Zurich, André Stutz of the silkhouse "Fabric Frontline" in Zurich. Kurt Aeschbacher, known from Swiss TV DRS, Martin Leuthold, textile designer and Raphael Blechschmidt, from a fashion house in Basle. |
the different chapters of
the book are: - Das Band in der Mode: an Kleid
und Hose, by Ingrid Loschek: - Das Band in der Mode: an Kopf und Hut,
by Margret Ribbert: - Motive im Wandel: das Seidenband im 19. und
20. Jh., by Irmgard Peter - Mein Band-Favorit - Das Band in der Mode von morgen, by
Wiebke Koch-Mertens - Bänder auf historischen Fotografien, by Sabine Strebel - Basler Bandweberei, by Barbara
Alder, Therese Schaltenbrand Felber, Nathalie
Unternährer |
Mode
à la fontange, 1686, |
"tatschit"
by Marlis Candinas, 2003, |
Margaretha
Bachofen-Heitz, wife of the Basle Ribbon merchant, |
Three hats
around 1845 / 55, |
Ribbons,
second half 18th c., |
sampler book of
the firm: Emanuel Hoffmann, |
naturalistic
flowers, 1868, 1849/50, 1848, |
Silk ribbon,
1913, |
Emmy
Buser (1897-1992) and Emma Probst (1896-1978) |
Loom for weaving
ribbons, |
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