MACRAMÉ

măkˈrəmāˌ, a technique of decorative knotting employing simple basic knots to create a multitude of patterns. The term derives from an Arabic word for braided fringe. Its first known use was recorded by Arabs in the 13th cent. During the next hundred years it spread to S Europe. Macramé has been used extensively by sailors as a pastime. The craft revival of the 1960s brought the technique to life after decades of obscurity. It remains popular for the making of handbags, wall hangings, plant hangers, and jewelry.

See E. Andes, Practical Macramé (1971).

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books on: MacramE  - 94 results

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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Book by Anne Fausto-Sterling; Basic Books, 2000
Subjects: Gender Identity, Hermaphroditism, Sex (Biology), Sex Differences, Sex Differentiation, Sex Role
...form an especially powerful knot in this macrame weaving I will have a lot more to say...represented in figure 5.6 by knots on the macrame weaving, one finds scientists at work...science. 105 On the cultural side of the macrame weaving figure 5.7B we find that webbed...
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Decorative Art of Victoria's Era
Book by Frances Lichten; Charles Scribners Sons, 1950
Subjects: Decoration And Ornament--Great Britain--Victorian Style, Great Britain--Social Life And Customs--19th Century, United States--Social Life And Customs--19th Century
...ANTIMACASSAR To knot fine ecru twine into the pillow lace known as macrame was an occupation to which the artistic devoted themselves...lambrequin for mantelshelf or edging for corner bracket. Left. Macrame Lambrequin and Crocheted Antimacassar. Courtesy, Valentine...
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Avoiding the Cracks: A Guide to the Workers' Compensation System
Book by Anne Tramposh; Praeger Publishers, 1991
Subjects: Workers' Compensation--United States
...Increase distances Try different chair types, cooking, macrame, and other slowly. Walk where you and adjusting chair frequently...REACHING Repetitive - move small objects Practice kneeling doing Macrame hang from ceiling . from one container at waist any activity...
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The Material Queer: A Lesbigay Cultural Studies Reader
Book by Donald Morton; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Gay And Lesbian Studies, Homosexuality--Philosophy, Lesbianism--Philosophy
...Her sidekick Peggy, however, was the devoted servant of everybody, making endless presents of macrame before finally opening her own macrame store in a strip mall. Frankie, Peggy, and my mother belonged to a circle of women who held Bible...
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Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany
Book by Karen Hagemann, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum; Berg, 2002
Subjects: Germany--History, Military--20th Century, Germany--Social Conditions--20th Century, Sociology, Military--Germany, Women And The Military--Germany--History--20th Century, Women And War--Germany--History--20th Century
...to dexterity class, where they were instructed by women in so-called women's handicrafts such as crochet, knitting and macrame in order to be prepared for their future occupations. 33 Male contemporaries observed this symbolic form of feminization with...
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Recent Decisions - Supreme Court Review
Journal article; Journal of Law and Education, Vol. 40, 2011
Subjects: Department of Education-Massachusetts, Federal court decisions, Litigation, State court decisions, Suicides & suicide attempts
...stay up without a belt. He was allowed to borrow a length of macrame from another class to use as a belt. Later that day he was...the room, he found that Jonathan had hung himself with the macrame belt. Jonathans parents filed a wrongful death suit alleging...
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Manly Crafts: Mike Kelley's (Oxy)moronic Gender Bending
Journal article by Cary Levine; Art Journal, Vol. 69, 2010
Subjects: Art, Artists, Feminism, Gender, Masculinity, Nonfiction, Stereotypes
...but of die gender codes affixed to such classifications. This compendium of patently "feminine" materials and techniques - macrame, crochet, knitting, sewing, needlepoint - appears incompatible not only with Kelleys own sex, but with the machismo of...
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Art, Food, and Public Space: Some Reflections
Journal article by Roberta Smith; New England Review, Vol. 17, 1995
Subjects: Public Spaces
...art"--large objects arbitrarily placed in plazas. We have ersatz murals and airport decoration in neon, aluminum, and macrame. At the same time it seems to me wrong to blame the problems, or the challenges, faced by art in public places strictly...
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Antislick to Postslick: Diy Books and Youth Culture Then and Now
Journal article by Rochelle Smith; The Journal of American Culture, Vol. 33, 2010
Subjects: Appropriate technology, Book reviews, Political activism, Rural areas, Social criticism & satire, Subcultures
...including candlemaking, crochet, leatherwork, embroidery, pottery, beading, weaving, tie-dye, batik, silkscreen, and macrame, as well as home sound recording. The books counterculture tone is set on its front cover, on which it is described as being...
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Narrative Coyotes: Migration and Narrative Voice in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo
Journal article by Heather Alumbaugh; MELUS, Vol. 35, 2010
Subjects: Caramelo (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Cisneros, Sandra--Works, Coyotes--Portrayals, Novelists--Works
...Two, Lala explains that the "art of las empuntadoras is so old no one remembers whether it arrived from the east, from the macrame of Arabia through Spain, or from the west from the blue-sky bay of Acapulco.... Perhaps, as is often the case with...
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There's a Party in My Sculpture: Jack Bankowsky on Jason Rhoades's Black Pussy Soiree Cabaret Macrame
Magazine article by Jack Bankowsky; Artforum International, Vol. 46, November 2007
Subjects: Installations (Art)--Exhibitions, Rhoades, Jason--Exhibitions
...Jason Rhoadess Black Pussy Soiree Cabaret Macrame. by Jack Bankowsky By going between places...Rhoadesian title Black Pussy Soiree Cabaret Macrame. By the time I showed up, the party...tied a scrap of vintage T-shirt to the macrame hanging that spools up the wall to accommodate...
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Uncivil Liberties
Magazine article by Calvin Trillin; The Nation, Vol. 249, November 6, 1989
Subjects: Helms, Jesse--Political activity, Obscenity (Law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Obscenity--Laws, regulations and rules, United States. National Endowment for the Arts--Political aspects
...under which anybody attempting to sell macrame would be dyed a natural color and hung...to point out that my suggestion about macrame was offered during a period of crisis...today. The country was in the midst of a macrame infestation at craft fairs and even in...
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On Pins and Needles
Magazine article by Maynard Good Stoddard; The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 271, May/Jun 1999
Subjects: Handicrafts, Hobbies, Quilting, Wives
...believe, so Ill not go into it. Ill mention only that its a 12-footer. As for her macrame-you remember macrame? According to my several dictionaries, macrame is no more than "coarse lacework made by weaving and knotting cords into a pattern...
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Printmaking on a Budget
Magazine article by Katrine J. Trantham; Arts & Activities, Vol. 134, November 2003
Subjects: Art--Study and teaching, Printing--Study and teaching
...at my current school, I found boxes of macrame string in a back closet. Not particularly wanting to teach macrame, I opted to incorporate the string into...to the students, along with pre-cut macrame string approximately 8 inches in length...
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Achy Breaky Neck
Magazine article; The Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 266, September 1994
Subjects: Accidents, Humor, Marriage
...soil, adding a sprig of hollyhock, and calling the result macrame. What I called these booby traps has also gone unrecorded...whined. "Oh," she said, resuming her hanging of another macrame device in my new route to the bathroom. "I thought maybe...
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Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 28, 2007
...Rhanbarth Penfro. Competition: 123 Weaving / Macrame Yr 2 and under: 1, Menna Evans Ysgol...Fflint Maelor. Competition: 124 Weaving / Macrame Yr 3 and 4: 1, Hanna Harrison Adran...Myrddin. Competition: 125 Weaving / Macrame Yr 5 and 6: 1, Catrin Cheung Ysgol Gynradd...
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Letters in the Editor's Mailbag
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), October 14, 2006
...Eugene Local artisans enrich our lives Hand-dipped candles and macrame (Register-Guard, Oct. 6)? The Galleria at the Fifth...calligraphy, art glass, unique clothes - and not a piece of macrame in sight! This made the market a destination for any visitors...
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PUSSY GALORE; Art Show Shocker Consists of 185 Words for Female Genitalia
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), September 7, 2008
Subjects: Art exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions
...genitalia. The piece is called Black Pussy Soiree Cabaret Macrame and was the last work Rhoades did before he died of a drug...aged just 41, two years ago. Black Pussy Soiree Cabaret Macrame is regarded as his landmark achievement, and the original...
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Decor Trends: Retro Chic or Just Plain Ugly
Newspaper article; The Daily Mercury (Mackay, Australia), February 25, 2011
...rollers, and paper bags to create a luxurious textured look. Macrame planters a In the mid 1970s everyones mother or grandmother took an adult-education (read TAFE) class in making hanging macrame planters, and their progeny, in turn, received the results...
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Brian Halford: Turning Away a New Generation
Newspaper article; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), March 10, 2005
...simply go back to football, fishing, fig-snorkelling or macrame. What a wasteTAKE a different scenario. Say England get pasted...firmly with their football, fishing, fig-snorkelling or macrame. And when next summer brings the less sexy prospect of Test...
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encyclopedia articles on: MacramE  - 2 results

 
 
1.
MacramÉ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MACRAME mak r ma , a technique of decorative knotting...next hundred years it spread to S Europe. Macrame has been used extensively by sailors as...and jewelry. See E. Andes, Practical Macrame (1971...
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Lace
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...with embroidery , also formed an important step in lace making. The better-known knotted laces are tatting and macrame ; macrame evolved from the early Italian punto a groppo. Crocheted lace reached its finest development in Ireland. Knitted...


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