Historical Needlework of Pennsylvania
Author : Margaret Berwind Schiffer
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Needlework
ISBN :
Author : Margaret Berwind Schiffer
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Needlework
ISBN :
Author : Margaret B. Schiffer
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258081423
Author : Christina K. Schaefer
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780806315829
Offers information on finding female ancestors in each state, highlighting those laws, both federal and state, that indicate when a woman could own real estate in her own name, devise a will, and enter into contracts. In addition, entries contain information on marriage and divorce law, immigration, citizenship, passports, suffrage, and slave manumission. Material is included on African American, Native American, and Asian American women, as well as patterns of European immigration. Period covered is from the 1600s to the outbreak of WWII. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Tandy Hersh
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Bridget McConnel
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors w
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780764307102
The history and diversity of needlework tools from ancient Egypt through the 20th century are identified. Nearly 500 photographs beautifully illustrate needles, bodkins, pin cushions, thimbles, bobbins, clamps, hooks, shuttles, measuring tapes, waxers, winders, and more. A special section features representative tools from private collections. Three appendices, values, and an index are included.
Author : Mary Jaene Edmonds
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
"American classrooms have gone largely unrecorded, these astonishing embroideries which are usually signed, dated, and even sometimes inscribed with the names of the towns in which they were worked and the names of the embroiderers' teachers serve as historic documents, attesting to the existence of colonial education for women. There is a story behind each of the nearly eighty samplers illustrated in this book"--Insleaves.
Author : Susan Frye
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812206983
The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated products of self-fashioning and communication. Because early modern people saw verbal and visual texts as closely related, Susan Frye discusses the connections between the many forms of women's textualities, including notes in samplers, alphabets both stitched and penned, initials, ciphers, and extensive texts like needlework pictures, self-portraits, poetry, and pamphlets, as well as commissioned artwork, architecture, and interior design. She examines works on paper and cloth by such famous figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Bess of Hardwick, as well as the output of journeywomen needleworkers and miniaturists Levina Teerlinc and Esther Inglis, and their lesser-known sisters in the English colonies of the New World. Frye shows how traditional women's work was a way for women to communicate with one another and to shape their own identities within familial, intellectual, religious, and historical traditions. Pens and Needles offers insights into women's lives and into such literary texts as Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline and Mary Sidney Wroth's Urania.
Author : Judith K. Grow
Publisher : Book Sales
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780878610693
Author : Margaret Schiffer
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780887408786
The joy and magic of Christmas are celebrated in this nostalgic pictorial exploration of old-fashioned Christmas decorations. Nearly 1200 enchanting Christmas ornaments, candy containers, Santa figures, and collectibles are displayed in color photos.
Author : Rebecca McKillip
Publisher : Stemmer House Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Art, Pennsylvania Dutch
ISBN : 9780880450324
One of the ways in which the Mennonites, Moravians and other German farmfolk expressed their joy of living in southeastern Pennsylvania was in the adornment of documents (Fraktur and Vorschrift), samplers, house blessings, Valentines, furniture, needlework, walls and other craft examples with floral borders, hearts, tulips, doves and other motifs in vivid abundance. The designs reproduced faithfully here are not the commercial hex signs seen at roadside stands but the authentic art of the Pennsylvania German culture.