The Resource Patch work : a life amongst clothes, Claire Wilcox
Patch work : a life amongst clothes, Claire Wilcox
Resource Information
The item Patch work : a life amongst clothes, Claire Wilcox represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Patch work : a life amongst clothes, Claire Wilcox represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes. From her mother's black wedding suit to the swirling patterns of her own silk kimono, her memoir unfolds in spare, luminous prose the spellbinding power of the things we wear. In a series of intimate and compelling close-ups, Wilcox tugs on the threads that make up the fabric of our lives: a cardigan worn by a child, a mother's button box, the draping of a curtain, a pair of cycling shorts, a roll of lace, a pin hidden in a seam. Through the eye of a curator, we see how the stories and the secrets of clothes measure out the passage of time, our gains and losses, and the way we use them to unravel and write our histories
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 270 pages
- Contents
-
- Prelude
- Beginning
- Brink
- Verdant
- Storeroom
- Catch
- Entwined
- Love
- Gather
- Sensate
- Curator
- Seam
- Loss
- Dusk
- Immersion
- Mist
- Archive
- Home
- Vertigo
- Nocturne
- Isbn
- 9781526614391
- Label
- Patch work : a life amongst clothes
- Title
- Patch work
- Title remainder
- a life amongst clothes
- Statement of responsibility
- Claire Wilcox
- Subject
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- Autobiographies
- trueClothing
- trueClothing -- Psychological aspects
- trueClothing -- Social aspects
- Costume
- trueFamily relationships
- Fashion
- Memory
- trueMuseum curators
- Museum curators -- Great Britain
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Wilcox, Claire
- trueWomen museum curators
- Women museum curators -- Great Britain
- Women museum curators -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes. From her mother's black wedding suit to the swirling patterns of her own silk kimono, her memoir unfolds in spare, luminous prose the spellbinding power of the things we wear. In a series of intimate and compelling close-ups, Wilcox tugs on the threads that make up the fabric of our lives: a cardigan worn by a child, a mother's button box, the draping of a curtain, a pair of cycling shorts, a roll of lace, a pin hidden in a seam. Through the eye of a curator, we see how the stories and the secrets of clothes measure out the passage of time, our gains and losses, and the way we use them to unravel and write our histories
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- UKMGB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wilcox, Claire
- Dewey number
- 069.092
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- AM3.6.W55
- LC item number
- P38 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Wilcox, Claire
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Women museum curators
- Women museum curators
- Museum curators
- Costume
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Patch work : a life amongst clothes, Claire Wilcox
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prelude -- Beginning -- Brink -- Verdant -- Storeroom -- Catch -- Entwined -- Love -- Gather -- Sensate -- Curator -- Seam -- Loss -- Dusk -- Immersion -- Mist -- Archive -- Home -- Vertigo -- Nocturne
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9781526614391
- Lccn
- 2020416644
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- on1197755533
- (OCoLC)1197755533
- Label
- Patch work : a life amongst clothes, Claire Wilcox
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prelude -- Beginning -- Brink -- Verdant -- Storeroom -- Catch -- Entwined -- Love -- Gather -- Sensate -- Curator -- Seam -- Loss -- Dusk -- Immersion -- Mist -- Archive -- Home -- Vertigo -- Nocturne
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 270 pages
- Isbn
- 9781526614391
- Lccn
- 2020416644
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- on1197755533
- (OCoLC)1197755533
Subject
- Autobiographies
- trueClothing
- trueClothing -- Psychological aspects
- trueClothing -- Social aspects
- Costume
- trueFamily relationships
- Fashion
- Memory
- trueMuseum curators
- Museum curators -- Great Britain
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Wilcox, Claire
- trueWomen museum curators
- Women museum curators -- Great Britain
- Women museum curators -- Great Britain -- Biography
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