Notes on Laces of the American Colonists
Author : Frances Morris
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Lace and lace making
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Author : Frances Morris
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Lace and lace making
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Author : William Griffith
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 1836
Category : United States
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Author : Marta Cotterell Raffel
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781584651635
Richly illustrated study of the central role of lace making in defining a colonial American community.
Author : Kax Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0429716192
Originally published in 1979, this volume acts as a reference for the history textiles. It asks questions on the effect of technology on textiles, how did particular historical periods and locations expand or limit the possibilities for the manufacture of fabrics and how the textile history related to politics and economics, sociology and psychology, art and engineering, anthropology and archaeology, chemistry and physics. Addressing these questions, the author surveys the development of the technical components of fabrics and discusses the textiles of selected places and times. She uses prose, drawings and more than 130 photographs to show how each era of textile production reflects its age. This book is designed to serve as a college text and as a reference work for museum researchers. With sections including illustrations and diagrams; key terminology; spinning wool; spinning and raw materials; single ply and cord and fabric construction.
Author : Professor and Department Head of Art & Art History Elizabeth Milroy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300069983
This anthology brings together twenty outstanding works of recent scholarship on the history of the visual arts in the United States from the colonial period to 1945. The selected essays--all written within the past two decades--reflect the interdisciplinary character of current art historiography in America and the variety of approaches that contribute to the dynamism in the field. The authors take up diverse subjects--from colonial portraits to nineteenth-century sculptures of women to photographic images of New York--and invite those with a general knowledge of the history of American art to think more deeply about art and culture. Employing many interpretive methodologies, including iconology, social history, structuralism, psychobiography, and feminist theory, the contributors to this volume combine close analysis of specific art objects or groups of objects with discussion of how these works of art operated within their cultural contexts. The authors consider the works of such artists as John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Jackson Pollock as they assess how paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs have carried meaning within American society. And they investigate how the conceptualization, production, and presentation of works of art both inform and are informed by prevailing attitudes toward the role of the arts and the artist in American culture.
Author : Mary Carolyn Beaudry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780300134803
Mary C. Beaudry mines archaeological findings of sewing and needlework to discover what these small traces of female experience reveal about the societies and cultures in which they were used. Beaudry's geographical and chronological scope is broad: she examines sites in the United States and Great Britain, as well as Australia and Canada, and she ranges from the Middle Ages through the Industrial Revolution.The author describes the social and cultural significance of "findings": pins, needles, thimbles, scissors, and other sewing accessories and tools. Through the fascinating stories that grow out of these findings, Beaudry shows the extent to which such "small things" were deeply entrenched in the construction of gender, personal identity, and social class.
Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Bibliography
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Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
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Author : Margaretta M. Lovell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 25,53 MB
Release : 2007-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0812219910
"Lovell delights, astonishes, and challenges us with her insightful new readings of early American paintings and material culture objects."--"Journal of the Early Republic"
Author : José Blanco F.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2438 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : History
ISBN :
This unique four-volume encyclopedia examines the historical significance of fashion trends, revealing the social and cultural connections of clothing from the precolonial times to the present day. This sweeping overview of fashion and apparel covers several centuries of American history as seen through the lens of the clothes we wear—from the Native American moccasin to Manolo Blahnik's contribution to stiletto heels. Through four detailed volumes, this work delves into what people wore in various periods in our country's past and why—from hand-crafted family garments in the 1600s, to the rough clothing of slaves, to the sophisticated textile designs of the 21st century. More than 100 fashion experts and clothing historians pay tribute to the most notable garments, accessories, and people comprising design and fashion. The four volumes contain more than 800 alphabetical entries, with each volume representing a different era. Content includes fascinating information such as that beginning in 1619 through 1654, every man in Virginia was required to plant a number of mulberry trees to support the silk industry in England; what is known about the clothing of enslaved African Americans; and that there were regulations placed on clothing design during World War II. The set also includes color inserts that better communicate the visual impact of clothing and fashion across eras.