Fraser-Lu, Sylvia
1988 Handwoven Textiles of South-east Asia. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press.
Brief overview of Southeast Asian textiles and techniques.
Friends of Singapore
2001 Sacred Threads: Ceremonial Textiles of Southeast Asia. Singapore.
Good illustrations of textiles and descriptions of their function in cultures.
Gittinger, Mattiebelle
1979 Splendid Symbols: Textiles and Tradition in Indonesia. Washington, DC: Textile Museum.
Good source for information and illustrations of important symbols in cloth and their meaning.
Prangwatthanakum, Songsak, ed.
1993 Textiles of Asia: A Common Heritage. Bangkok: Amrin Printing and Publishing Public Co. Ltd.
Articles about textile traditions from South, Southeast and East Asia. Outcome of a conference on textile traditions held in Chiang Mai in 1992.
Seiler-Baldinger, Annemarie
1994 Textiles: A Classification of Techniques. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Basic source with good illustrations of textile techniques – weaving, dyeing, mesh- making, plaiting, and textile ornamentation.
Weiner, Annette B. and Jane Schneider, eds.
1989 Cloth and the Human Experience. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Basic source with information on textiles and the cultural contexts for their use.
Http://depts.washington.edu/seac/burke/sealinks.html
Each Southeast Asian country is represented with articles about its textile traditions and accompanied by illustrations in color.
Ann Wright-Parsons
Director, Anthropology Museum, NIU
10/2/03