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Africa in Fashion: Luxury, Craft and Textile Heritage
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Africa in Fashion explores the kaleidoscope of craft cultures that have shaped African fashion for centuries and captures the intriguing stories of...
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African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The traditional, handcrafted textiles of Africa are sumptuous, intricate, and steeped in cultural significance. Region by region, African Textiles ...
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Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /How W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in America...
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Making the Movement: How Activists Fought for Civil Rights with Buttons, Flyers, Pins, and Posters
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Packed with over 200 color photos, this visual journey through Black history and the Civil Rights Movement is told through the objects--buttons, ba...
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Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteent...
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Salish Blankets: Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses. Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets...
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Decorative Art of the Southwestern Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The decorative art of the Indians of the American Southwest has long been recognized as one of the most beautiful art traditions in the primitive w...
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Glory and Exile: Haida History Robes of Jut-Ke-Nay Hazel Wilson
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Glory and Exile: Haida History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay Hazel Wilson marks the first time this monumental cycle of ceremonial robes by the Haida artist...
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Pathé'o
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00Original price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00Current price $57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /The life and work of Côte d'Ivoire-based fashion designer Pathé'O, famed for dressing Nelson MandelaThis book traces, for the very first time, the ...
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Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The first-ever illustrated history of the iconic designs, symbols, and graphic art representing more than 5 decades of LGBTQ pride and activism.B...
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Brendan Fernandes: Re/Form
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /On Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes' acclaimed performance-based installations deconstructing ballet and modern danceIn an ambitious new monograph...
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Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /*WINNER OF THE NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author*A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black...
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Women Artisans of Morocco: Their Stories, Their Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Morocco: Ancient cities, adobe fortresses of centuries past, fertile plains of wheat and olives, carpets of wildflowers, endless deserts, wild moun...
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Is Modeling for You? the Handbook and Guide for the Young Aspiring African American Model (Revised Second Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A comprehensive reference on modeling written for and about the African-American model, this book covers such topics as finding an agency, planning...
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Family Crests of Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Bold, iconic designs have been used to symbolize family names in Japan from the time of the court nobles in the twelfth century. The sense of "fami...
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Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Twenty-plus years after the initial publication of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren is back with furthe...
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Just Enough Design: Reflections on the Japanese Philosophy of Hodo-Hodo
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A Japanese designer offers a compelling alternative way to engage with our possessions, our history, our environment, and each other. The Japanese ...
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Craftland Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Generations of artisans in Japan have forged and refined their crafts to become the envy of the world. Each of the country's regions are renowned f...
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What Alexander McQueen Can Teach You about Fashion
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /If Alexander McQueen were to give a masterclass on design, creativity and attitude, what wisdom would he impart? Discover McQueen's life, work and ...
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Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Previously marginalized, overlooked, or even erased from history, Black designers are finally given their due in this first book to celebrate a cen...
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Gemstone Settings: The Jewelry Maker's Guide to Styles & Techniques
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Gemstone Settings is the most in-depth, technical guide to stone setting. Jewelry makers will enjoy an encyclopedic overview, which features an e...
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One Thousand Years of Manga
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This definitive illustrated history of manga is an unparalleled account of the development of a form which is an integral part of Japanese art an...
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New Fashion Illustration: Outfit Ideas for All
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The fashion illustration book you've always wanted! Check out the newest title in the hit Fashion Illustrations Series!!This is the second title of...
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Chinese Dress in Detail
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Chinese Dress in Detail reveals the beauty and variety of Chinese dress for women, men, and children, both historically and geographically, showca...
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