Linen-making in New England, 1640-1860
Author | : Martha Coons |
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Linen |
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Author | : Martha Coons |
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Linen |
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Author | : Merrimack Valley Textile Museum (North Andover, Mass.) |
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Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Linen |
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Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : Martha Coons |
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Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Eighteenth century |
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Author | : Martha Coons |
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Bedding and Linens |
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Author | : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2009-08-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307416860 |
They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history. In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates unravel those simplified illusions, revealing important clues to the culture and people who made them. Ulrich uses an Indian basket to explore the uneasy coexistence of native and colonial Americans. A piece of silk embroidery reveals racial and class distinctions, and two old spinning wheels illuminate the connections between colonial cloth-making and war. Pulling these divergent threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history.
Author | : Peter Eisenstadt |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 1960 |
Release | : 2005-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815608080 |
The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.
Author | : Gail Fowler Mohanty |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1135080933 |
Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers 1780-1840 develops several themes important to understanding the social, cultural and economic implications of industrialization. The examination of these issues within a population of extra-factory workers distinguishes this study. The volume centers on the rapid growth of handloom weaving in response to the introduction of water powered spinning. This change is viewed from the perspectives of mechanics, technological limitations, characteristics of weaving, skills, income and cost. In the works of Duncan Bythell and Norman Murray the displacement of British and Scottish hand weavers loomed large and the silence of American handloom weavers in similar circumstances was deafening. This study reflects the differences between the three culture by centering not on displacement but on survival. Persistence is closely tied to the gradual nature of technological change. The contrasts between independent commercial artisans and outwork weavers are striking. Displacement occurs but only among artisans devoting their time to independent workshop weaving. Alternatively outwork weavers adapted to changing markets and survived. The design and development of spinning and weaving device is stressed, as are the roles of economic conditions, management organization, size of firms, political implications and social factors contribute to the impact of technological change on outwork and craft weavers.
Author | : Florence M. Montgomery |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780393732245 |
First published in 1984, this remains the definitive study of textiles as they were used in early American homes.
Author | : MaureenDaly Goggin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 135153677X |
Rejecting traditional notions of what constitutes art, this book brings together essays on a variety of fiber arts to recoup women's artistic practices by redefining what counts as art. Although scholars over the last twenty years have turned their attention to fiber arts, redefining the conditions, practices, and products as art, there is still much work to be done to deconstruct the stubborn patriarchal art/craft binary. With essays on a range of fiber art practices, including embroidery, knitting, crocheting, machine stitching, rug making, weaving, and quilting, this collection contributes to the ongoing scholarly redefinition of women's relationship to creative activity. Focusing on women as producers of cultural products and creators of social value, the contributors treat women as active subjects and problematize their material practices and artifacts in the complex world of textiles. Each essay also examines the ways in which needlework both performs gender and, in turn, constructs gender. Moreover, in concentrating on and theorizing material practices of textiles, these essays reorient the study of fiber arts towards a focus on process?the making of the object, including the conditions under which it was made, by whom, and for what purpose?as a way to rethink the fiber arts as social praxis.