"Knitting by the Fireside and on the Hillside"
Author : Linda G. Fryer
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Crafting Textiles in the Digital Age
Author : Nithikul Nimkulrat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Design
ISBN : 1474286208
Book Description
In an era of increasingly available digital resources, many textile designers and makers find themselves at an interesting juncture between traditional craft processes and newer digital technologies. Highly specialized craft/design practitioners may now elect to make use of digital processes in their work, but often choose not to abandon craft skills fundamental to their practice, and aim to balance the complex connection between craft and digital processes. The essays collected here consider this transition from the viewpoint of aesthetic opportunity arising in the textile designer's hands-on experimentation with material and digital technologies available in the present. Craft provides the foundations for thinking within the design and production of textiles, and as such may provide some clues in the transition to creative and thoughtful use of current and future digital technologies. Within the framework of current challenges relating to sustainable development, globalization, and economic constraints it is important to interrogate and question how we might go about using established and emerging technologies in textiles in a positive manner.
Myth and materiality in a woman’s world
Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1847793584
Book Description
Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran households and crofts without men. They maintained families and communities because men were absent. And they constructed in their minds an identity of themselves as 'liberated' long before organised feminism was invented. And yet, Shetland is a place which was made by the most masculine of societies - those of the Picts, Scots and above all the Vikings - and its contemporary identity still draws on the heroic exploits and sagas of medieval Norsemen. This book examines how against this tradition Shetland became a female place, and offers answers as to how, in this most isolated island community, the inhabitants transgressed and reversed their traditional gender roles. Reconstructing this 'woman's world' from fragments of cultural experience captured in written and oral sources, this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of social and cultural history, social anthropology, gender and women's studies.
Hedonizing Technologies
Author : Rachel Maines
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0801891469
Book Description
The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.
The Making of Modern Woman
Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1317876687
Book Description
Modern woman was made between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. In this time, the women of Europe crafted new ideas about their sexuaity, motherhood, the home, the politics of femininity, and their working roles. They faced challenges about what a woman should be and how she should act. From domestic ideology to women's suffrage, this book charts the contests for woman's identity in the epoch-shaping nineteenth century.
The Homestead on the Hillside, and Other Tales
Author : Mary Jane Holmes
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
Gender and Entrepreneurship in Tourism
Author : Haywantee Ramkissoon
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1800883862
Book Description
This innovative book brings together a unique collection of research on entrepreneurship centring on gender perspectives in tourism in both Western and non-Western contexts. It serves as a vital reference point for advanced studies on gender issues, allowing the reader to explore current and future challenges and strategies for entrepreneurship in tourism.
Northern Scotland
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
Book Description
Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen
Author : Elizabeth L. Ewan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0748626603
Book Description
This single-volume dictionary presents the lives ofindividual Scottish women from earliest times to the present. Drawing on newscholarship and a wide network of professional and amateur historians, itthrows light on the experience of women from every class and category inScotland and among the worldwide Scottish diaspora.The BiographicalDictionary of Scottish Women is written for the general reading public andfor students of Scottish history and society. It is scholarly in itsapproach to evidence and engaging in the manner of its presentation. Eachentry makes sense of its subject in narrative terms, telling a story ratherthan simply offering information. The book is as enjoyable to read as it iseasy and valuable to consult. It is a unique and important contribution tothe history of women and Scotland.The publisher acknowledges support fromthe Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Executive Equalities Unit towardsthe publication of this title.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
Author : Gerald W. R. Ward
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0195313917
Book Description
"The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques deals with all aspects of materials, techniques, conservation, and restoration in both traditional and nontraditional media, including ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, works on paper, textiles, video, digital art, and more. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in The Dictionary of Art and adding new entries, this work is a comprehensive reference resource for artists, art dealers, collectors, curators, conservators, students, researchers, and scholars." "Similar in design to The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, this one-volume reference work contains articles of various lengths in alphabetical order. The shorter, more factual articles are combined with larger, multi-section articles tracing the development of materials and techniques in various geographical locations. The Encyclopedia provides unparalleled scope and depth, and it offers fully updated articles and bibliography as well as over 150 illustrations and color plates." "The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques offers scholarly information on materials and techniques in art for anyone who studies, creates, collects, or deals in works of art. The entries are written to be accessible to a wide range of readers, and the work is designed as a reliable and convenient resource covering this essential area in the visual arts."
