Book Description
Features step-by-step instructions for 95 projects using a variety of needlework and sewing skills.
Author : Nancy Schraffenberger
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780930748180
Features step-by-step instructions for 95 projects using a variety of needlework and sewing skills.
Author : Nancy Schraffenberger
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : House furnishings
ISBN : 9780806954424
Features step-by-step instructions for 95 projects using a variety of needlework and sewing skills.
Author : Nancy Schraffenberger
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Aimee E. Newell
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0821444751
Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework—primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States—made by individual women aged forty years and over between 1820 and 1860, this exquisitely illustrated book explores how women experienced social and cultural change in antebellum America. The book is filled with individual examples, stories, and over eighty fine color photographs that illuminate the role that samplers and needlework played in the culture of the time. For example, in October 1852, Amy Fiske (1785–1859) of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, stitched a sampler. But she was not a schoolgirl making a sampler to learn her letters. Instead, as she explained, “The above is what I have taken from my sampler that I wrought when I was nine years old. It was w[rough]t on fine cloth [and] it tattered to pieces. My age at this time is 66 years.” Situated at the intersection of women’s history, material culture study, and the history of aging, this book brings together objects, diaries, letters, portraits, and prescriptive literature to consider how middle-class American women experienced the aging process. Chapters explore the physical and mental effects of “old age” on antebellum women and their needlework, technological developments related to needlework during the antebellum period and the tensions that arose from the increased mechanization of textile production, and how gift needlework functioned among friends and family members. Far from being solely decorative ornaments or functional household textiles, these samplers and quilts served their own ends. They offered aging women a means of coping, of sharing and of expressing themselves. These “threads of time” provide a valuable and revealing source for the lives of mature antebellum women. Publication of this book was made possible in part through generous funding from the Coby Foundation, Ltd and from the Quilters Guild of Dallas, Helena Hibbs Endowment Fund.
Author : Lorinda Cramer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Design
ISBN : 1350069639
In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing. Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the book examines how needlework's practice and products were vital in the contest for social position in the turmoil of the first two decades of the Victorian rush from 1851. Placing women firmly at the center of colonial history, it explores how the needle became a tool for stitching together identity. From decorative needlework to household making and mending, women's sewing was a vehicle for establishing, asserting, and maintaining social status. Interdisciplinary in scope, Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia draws on material culture, written primary sources, and pictorial evidence, to create a rich portrait of the objects and manners that defined genteel goldfields living. Giving voice to women's experiences and positioning them as key players in the fabric of gold-rush society, this volume offers a fresh critical perspective on gender and textile history.
Author : Elizabeth Glaister
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Interior decoration
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Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 1921
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Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN :
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : MAY. MORRIS
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781033791097
Author : May Morris
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781498182300
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1893 Edition.