Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction
Textiles beyond the folkloric
Fieldwork trajectory
Textural ethnography
The problem of crafting collections
Outline of the book
1. Sample collection: Dreams and archives
Encounter
A place for the museum
Textile archives
World stage
Conclusion
2. Carpets: Knotted histories, recurrent patterns
Nationalist folklore
School and museum
Regained Territories
Post-war reconstruction
Truly Polish craft
Scraps
Recurrent patterns
Conclusion

3. Woven basket: Untethered art
Trader in exotica
Survivors
Waiting
Thread
On demand
Valuing work
Stubborn survival

4. Waistcoat: Colour and Cold War
Language island
Go West
Perforating the Iron Curtain?
Vestige
Conclusion

5. Cook's uniform: Refashioning the social fabric
Renewal
Reorientation
Blue-collar museum
House ghosts
Costume/fashion
Conclusion

Conclusion: From unification to prefiguration
Collection reconceptualized
Other futures
Prefigurative acquisition
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

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history; material culture; Europe; textile objects; Germany; Berlin; museum; culture; fabric; makers; users; social; political