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|a Includes bibliographical references and index ; 1. Touch -- Textiles, text and techne -- Freud, fabric, fetish -- Meditation on translations and seduction -- The blank page -- Sense and sensibility -- Continuity of touch--textile as silent witness -- 2. Memory -- Stain: on cloth, stigma, and shame -- Considering the evidence -- Worn worlds: clothes, mourning and the life of things -- Collecting the contemporary: 'Love will decide what is kept and science will decide how it is kept -- The parody of the motley cadaver: displaying the funeral of fashion -- Autobiography of a pocket handkerchief -- 3. Structure -- Invisible cities -- Reflexive textile -- Ouvrage: knot a not, notes as knots -- Piecing and writing -- Testing orthodoxy: collecting, the gaze, knitting the impossible -- 1440: the smooth and the striated -- Folds, fragments, surfaces: towards a poetics of cloth -- Statement VI -- 4. Politics -- Weaving as metaphor and model for political thought -- Fiber art and the hierarchy of art and craft, 1960-80 --^ ; Tapestry and identity in Australia -- Gandhi and Khadi, the fabric of Indian independence -- Arachne's genre: towards inter-cultural studies in textiles -- Setting the stage: Yinka Shonibare MBE in conversation with Anthony Downey -- Culture -- 100% cotton -- Lisa Anne Auerbach's canny domesticity -- The subversive stitch: embroidery and the making of the feminine -- The yellow wallpaper -- 5. Production -- A tradition with a reason -- Zeroes + one: digital women & the new technoculture -- Open source embroidery: curatorial facilitation of material networks -- Embroidery pirates and fashion victims: textiles, c raft and copyright -- The romance of modern manufacture--A brief history of embroidered embellishment -- Artist's statement -- Upcycling textiles: adding value through design -- Constructing textiles -- Biocouture or how to grow a frock -- 6. Use -- Stronger, faster, lighter, safer, and smarter -- Knitting is -- De-coding the hierarchy of fashion textiles --^ ; The Scarlet Letter -- Everyday use
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