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Make intricate and beautiful Chinese knots with this traditional Chinese craft book. Chinese knotting, the joining of two cords to form symmetrical paterns, is an ancient and revered art form in China and an integral part of Chinese life. Born first out of practical necessity in prehistoric times to bind materials for hunting, fishing, farming, shelters, communication and other inventions to aid production and convenience, Chinese knots were soon employed as decorative motifs on artifacts, both functional and ornamental, and for festive occasions and important rites of passage. Today, more sophisticated designs, materials and applications have rejuvenated this colorful Chinese craft and have attracted a large following worldwide. The Complete Book of Chinese Knotting is the culmination of 20 years of research into the ancient art of Chinese knotting and macrame by renowned authority Lydia Chen. Inspired by the decorative knots embellishing ancient artifacts such as pots, jade, statuary, boxes and paintings, the author has systematically classified the basic knots, many almost forgotten, and their variations, as well as developed new knots using various knotting combinations and innovative materials. In addition to a useful summary of the four major techniques for tying basic Chinese knots and the nine main ways of modifying them, the author introduces 56 brand new knots and creative designs which can be used to make jewelry, ornaments and stylish wardrobe and fashion additions. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Remember: outer loop is, in fact, inner loop, and compound looks like it should be complex instead
WRT the translation and layout:
As with the translations of Lydia Chen's previous books, the illustrations and the content are the same. The pictures may be resized or moved around slightly for better flow with the different language. In this instance, there are at least 3 cases where the wrong picture is matched incorrectly to the text, but not in a particularly fatal manner. It mostly seems to be a case of either rushing (this book did come out fairly quickly after the translation of the 2nd book) or the person doing the work being somewhat careless and not paying attention to what they were doing. Some of the process pictures are smaller, but not too dramatically so, so that a knot may fit on one page instead of 2. Some of the smaller pictures have been enlarged... and not from a better source file. The original 220 page book is now 155, although no content has been removed.
The text itself was never looked at by an editor (at least not an English speaking one).
As you can't take a book and stuff it into babelfish (well, unless you want to OCR it first to introduce even more fun mangling of the text), a translation for Anglophones is very welcome. It is better than a machine translation, but even a brief going over by a native English speaker would no doubt have improved the proceedings tremendously. Editing by someone who was reading for comprehension would have removed some rather dramatic errors. Still, there are no mind-flaying squids involved, and it takes less effort to decode than Chinese characters for most English readers.
The Sauvastika knot as been retranslated as the Buddha knot. I don't think this is an improvement.
Conclusion:
56 new knots. 56 entirely new variations on the core 11 which had been expanded to 13 in the second book and to 14 in this book. Complete layout diagrams and process instructions for each (new) knot. A nice notation for the "pulled and wrapped knots" (eg. cloverleaf and pan chang). A funkier notation for mat knots (eg. double coin/carrick bend).
There is a history of Chinese knots that is an expansion of her article found in "History and Science of Knots" ed. Turner & Griend including many dates that the SCAers will no doubt find useful.
With the caveat that I am a person who has bought whole books for just one new knot or a new way to tie an "old" knot, I say get this book. You will not regret it. ( )