Sonia Ashmore
Biographic Data
| ID | 4001450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Ashmore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashmore |
| SIGNATURE | ASHMORE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria and Albert Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Handcraft as luxury in Bangladesh
The practice of making things by hand in the Indian subcontinent is centuries old. Many, if not most, artefacts were handcrafted until the late twentieth century and some are still. From handwoven textiles made from handspun and hand-dyed cloth, printed and embroidered by hand; to brass water pots beaten out by hand, making a deafening noise, and handloom carpet weaving in the Indian town of Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. Many of these crafts and their…
Mr Bourne's dilemma’. Consumer culture, property speculation and department store demise
Entries
The transnational spaces of things
South Asian, or 'Indian', textiles have long been both apparent and appreciated within British culture. They form an important part of what we can see as a British Asian transnational space of things. This paper examines this space and the cultural exchanges that constitute it, in order to raise wider issues concerning the relations between transnationality, space and histories of material culture. The paper starts with some contextual observatio…
The transnational spaces of things
South Asian, or 'Indian', textiles have long been both apparent and appreciated within British culture. They form an important part of what we can see as a British Asian transnational space of things. This paper examines this space and the cultural exchanges that constitute it, in order to raise wider issues concerning the relations between transnationality, space and histories of material culture. The paper starts with some contextual observatio…
Entries
The transnational spaces of things
South Asian, or 'Indian', textiles have long been both apparent and appreciated within British culture. They form an important part of what we can see as a British Asian transnational space of things. This paper examines this space and the cultural exchanges that constitute it, in order to raise wider issues concerning the relations between transnationality, space and histories of material culture. The paper starts with some contextual observatio…
Mr Bourne's dilemma’. Consumer culture, property speculation and department store demise
Handcraft as luxury in Bangladesh
The practice of making things by hand in the Indian subcontinent is centuries old. Many, if not most, artefacts were handcrafted until the late twentieth century and some are still. From handwoven textiles made from handspun and hand-dyed cloth, printed and embroidered by hand; to brass water pots beaten out by hand, making a deafening noise, and handloom carpet weaving in the Indian town of Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. Many of these crafts and their…
Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Architectural engineering (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Asset (computer security (1 work) · Australian History and Society (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (1 work) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (1 work)