In this 504-page treatise, Mikkel Venborg Pedersen, senior researcher and head of the Textile and Dress Collection at the National Museum of Denmark, and Marie Riegels Melchior, PhD, associate professor at the Saxo Institute, present the history of Danish fashion, including a cornucopia of  paintings, photographs, newspaper clippings, copperplates, reliefs and everyday photos of clothes that have been worn in Denmark by Danes over the course of almost four centuries.

Puk Lippmann’s work is beautifully presented and gently dissected in new book. The loom always provides a firm framework for the woven piece: a field, a space of possibility for the weaver’s expression. Books and photographs do the opposite: they provide a slice of a larger whole, a section of the world. However, these two perspectives – working within a limited space to make a significant statement versus reducing a vast field to a selective, coherent expression – complement each other well in a new book about the Danish weaver Puk Lippmann: Orden og kaos – en vævers virke (Order and chaos – a weaver’s work).