The Devil's Cloth

The Devil's cloth is a book by Michel Pastoureau. The book was originally published in July 2001. It is about the biases about Striped pattern describes the cultural history of these patterns.[1][2][3]

The Devil's Cloth begins with a medieval scandal. When the first Carmelites arrived in France from the Holy Land, the religious order required its members to wear striped habits, prompting turmoil and denunciations in the West that lasted fifty years until the order was forced to accept a quiet, solid color. The medieval eye found any surface in which a background could not be distinguished from a foreground disturbing. Thus striped clothing was relegated to those on the margins or outside the social order -- jugglers and prostitutes, for example -- and in medieval paintings the devil himself is often depicted wearing stripes.

— Michel Pastoureau, The Devil's cloth

References
  1. Sekules, DR Veronica (2003-01-01). "The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric by Michel Pastoureau". Textile. 1 (1): 110–112. doi:10.1080/17518350.2003.11428637. ISSN 1475-9756. S2CID 193598987.
  2. "The Devil's Cloth". Goodreads. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  3. National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (2009). The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff collection : selected works. Internet Archive. Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-84822-050-8.


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