Keireine Canavan
Biographic Data
| ID | 8522711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keireine Canavan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keireine |
| FAMILY NAME | Canavan |
| SIGNATURE | CANAVAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keireine Canavan is Principal Lecturer and Subject Head of Textiles at Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, and Research Fellow to the Al-Sadu Weaving Society, Kuwait. She is a founder member and project director of the DIGIT Textile Research Group and a member of the International super-research group WIRAD (Welsh Institute for Research in Art and Design). |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5625-7102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Caring Through Cloth
The Caring through Cloth project links rituals of sensing, caregiving, and making with baby clothes and related textiles to adaptive coping in stillbirth loss. Stillbirth is traumatic because it (a) disrupts the natural order of life, (b) is an ambiguous loss, leaving little tangible evidence to validate or narrate it, (c) is a cultural taboo and stigma, disenfranchizing loss, personhood and parenthood and (d) can lead to complicated grief. As su…
Material Symbols of Traditional Bedouin Al-Sadu Weavings of Kuwait
The historical weaving heritage of the Arabian Peninsula is a vibrant and essential element of traditional material culture. Traditional al-Sadu woven textiles convey the Bedouin women weavers' ideals of their rich heritage and instinctive awareness of natural beauty, with patterns and designs messaging the nomadic lifestyle, the desert environment, and the emphasis of aesthetic symmetry and balance due to the making process. The significance of …
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Material Symbols of Traditional Bedouin Al-Sadu Weavings of Kuwait
The historical weaving heritage of the Arabian Peninsula is a vibrant and essential element of traditional material culture. Traditional al-Sadu woven textiles convey the Bedouin women weavers' ideals of their rich heritage and instinctive awareness of natural beauty, with patterns and designs messaging the nomadic lifestyle, the desert environment, and the emphasis of aesthetic symmetry and balance due to the making process. The significance of …
Caring Through Cloth
The Caring through Cloth project links rituals of sensing, caregiving, and making with baby clothes and related textiles to adaptive coping in stillbirth loss. Stillbirth is traumatic because it (a) disrupts the natural order of life, (b) is an ambiguous loss, leaving little tangible evidence to validate or narrate it, (c) is a cultural taboo and stigma, disenfranchizing loss, personhood and parenthood and (d) can lead to complicated grief. As su…
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