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Figured Tapestry

Author : Philip Scranton

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 540 pages

File Size : 29,2 MB

Release : 2002-08-22

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780521521369

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Figured Tapestry is a study of industrial maturity and decline, focused on the Philadelphia textile trades from the era of the Knights of Labor through World War II. Unlike the bulk fabric enterprises of New England and the South, Quaker City textile firms were 'flexible specialists,' combining skilled labor, versatile technologies, and quick responsiveness to demand shifts to create a vast array of seasonal goods. Scranton assesses the significance and limits of industrial versatility, owner-operated businesses, craft labor and its organizations, and the agglomeration of specialist mills in urban districts. An interdisciplinary blend of business, labor, urban, and economic history, industrial geography, and the history of technology, Figured Tapestry illuminates the hidden world of batch production, the 'other side' of American industrialization, and highlights both the benefits and the hazards of flexibility, a matter of moment to those who seek to reorient current manufacturing away from the rigidities of mass production.



Anatomy of a Tapestry

Author : Jean Pierre Larochette

Publisher : Schiffer Craft

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 23,24 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Tapestry

ISBN : 9780764359330

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Jean Pierre Larochette is a renowned top-level artist, making this opportunity to learn from him a treasure for all levels of weavers.





Senate documents

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Page : 586 pages

File Size : 20,50 MB

Release : 1897

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Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850–1925

Author : Katherine V. Snyder

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 299 pages

File Size : 13,17 MB

Release : 1999-09-02

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1139426249

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Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little-recognised figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford and Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literary discourse as threshold figures who, by crossing the shifting, permeable boundaries of bourgeois domesticity, highlighted the limits of conventional masculinity. The very marginality of the figure, Snyder argues, effects a critique of gendered norms of manhood, while the symbolic function of marriage as a means of plot resolution is also made more complex by the presence of the single man. Bachelor figures made, moreover, an ideal narrative device for male authors who themselves occupied vexed cultural positions. By attending to the gendered identities and relations at issue in these narratives, Snyder's study discloses the aesthetic and political underpinnings of the traditional canon of English and American male modernism.





Catalog

Author : Sears, Roebuck and Company

Publisher :

Page : 1134 pages

File Size : 15,64 MB

Release : 1923

Category : Manufactures

ISBN :

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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities, Vol. 4: The Coptic Textiles

Author : Wendy Landry

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 16,89 MB

Release : 2019-11-26

Category : Art

ISBN : 9004415394

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This catalogue of the Coptic Textiles in the Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts provides a detailed analysis of 64 textiles from both historical and weaving practice points of view. This approach provides a fuller understanding of the cultural situation in which such textiles were produced and circulated. Dr. Landry’s experience of over 40 years of weaving and scholarship highlights the elements of knowledge and skill held and applied by weavers in Antiquity. This perspective complements and expands on the focus on imagery usually provided by art historians regarding textiles of this period. This catalogue shows how much more cultural information can be accessed when the technical, economic, and practical character of both production and use are adequately integrated into the study of material artefacts.