[PDF.63gy] Sazigyo, Burmese Manuscript Binding Tapes: Woven Miniatures of Buddhist Art

Sazigyo, Burmese Manuscript Binding Tapes: Woven Miniatures of Buddhist Art

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 | #3295412 in Books |  2014-02-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  11.27 x.89 x9.20l,2.85 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Tablet-woven wonders|By Marilyn Romatka|Seldom does one come across a book that, for it’s sheer mass and beauty, can qualify as a coffee-table book, but at the same time be a book one wants to curl up with, together with a mug of hot tea, and read cover to cover. Ralph Isaacs has given us such a book.

Sazigyo are long narrow tablet-woven bands, crafted in Burma|About the Author|Ralph Isaacs is coauthor of Visions from the Golden Land: Burma and the Art of Lacquer.

Sazigyo are fine, tablet-woven Burmese tapes used to bind the palm-leaf manuscripts of an earlier era. Tiny images and extended texts were deftly woven into the long, colorful bindings. These Buddhist “textile texts” were commissioned by donors to make merit in the hope of attaining a better rebirth and ultimately nirvana.

This beautiful book elucidates the religious and social context of sazigyo and describes in detail the weaves, texts, designs, and ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Sazigyo, Burmese Manuscript Binding Tapes: Woven Miniatures of Buddhist Art   |  Ralph Isaacs. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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