A Book of Hand-woven Coverlets

A Book of Hand-woven Coverlets

Author: Eliza Caroline Calvert Obenchain

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13:

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Discussion of the craftsmanship involved in making coverlets. More than 50 coverlet designs are reproduced, 16 in color.


Textile Art from Southern Appalachia

Textile Art from Southern Appalachia

Author: Kathleen Curtis Wilson

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781570721984

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Features forty-four coverlets and two quilts made by hand weavers who lived in Western North Carolina, Eastern Kentucky, East Tennessee, and Southwest Virginia. Ms. Wilson has spent many years researching southern Appalachian overshot coverlet weaving.


Overshot

Overshot

Author: Susan Falls

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2020-03-01

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0820357723

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Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteenth-century American South typically featured colored wool and cotton threads woven into striking geometric patterns. Although they are not as well known as other textiles and domestic objects, “overshot” coverlets were, and continue to be, significant examples of material culture that require tremendous skill and creativity to produce. They also express currents of conformity and dissent. In addition to being pleasing to the eye and hand, “overshot” coverlets have advanced a variety of social and political ends. At times exhibited in slave quarters along the seaboard in Georgia and South Carolina in association with plantation properties, they also appear in piedmont areas attached to the antebellum yeomanry, in the context of nationalist craft revivals, and in white-box contemporary art. With Overshot, Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith analyze what we can learn by examining the exhibition and interpretation of these materials within American public history. By showing how geometric overshot coverlets can be understood in relationship to the global economy and within politicized cultural movements, Falls and Smith demonstrate how these erstwhile domestic, utilitarian objects explode the art/craft dichotomy, belong to a rich narrative of historical art forms, and tell us far more about American culture today than simply representing a nostalgic past, particularly with regard to ideas about race, class, nationalism, women’s labor, and the separation of private versus public spaces.


A Book of Hand-woven Coverlets

A Book of Hand-woven Coverlets

Author: Eliza Caroline Calvert Obenchain

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13:

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Discussion of the craftsmanship involved in making coverlets. More than 50 coverlet designs are reproduced, 16 in color.


Jacquard's Web

Jacquard's Web

Author: James Essinger

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-03-29

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0192805789

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Traces the 200-year evolution of the principles of Jacquard's knitting machines to the information revolution of the twentieth century and the desk-top computer of today. --From cover (p. 4).


The Queen's Embroiderer

The Queen's Embroiderer

Author: Joan DeJean

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1632864746

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From the author of How Paris Became Paris, a sweeping history of high finance, the origins of high fashion, and a pair of star-crossed lovers in 18th-century France. Paris, 1719. The stock market is surging and the world's first millionaires are buying everything in sight. Against this backdrop, two families, the Magoulets and the Chevrots, rose to prominence only to plummet in the first stock market crash. One family built its name on the burgeoning financial industry, the other as master embroiderers for Queen Marie-Thérèse and her husband, King Louis XIV. Both patriarchs were ruthless money-mongers, determined to strike it rich by arranging marriages for their children. But in a Shakespearean twist, two of their children fell in love. To remain together, Louise Magoulet and Louis Chevrot fought their fathers' rage and abuse. A real-life heroine, Louise took on Magoulet, Chevrot, the police, an army regiment, and the French Indies Company to stay with the man she loved. Following these families from 1600 until the Revolution of 1789, Joan DeJean recreates the larger-than-life personalities of Versailles, where displaying wealth was a power game; the sordid cells of the Bastille; the Louisiana territory, where Frenchwomen were forcibly sent to marry colonists; and the legendary "Wall Street of Paris," Rue Quincampoix, a world of high finance uncannily similar to what we know now. The Queen's Embroiderer is both a story of star-crossed love in the most beautiful city in the world and a cautionary tale of greed and the dangerous lure of windfall profits. And every bit of it is true.