The Laces of Ipswich
The Laces of Ipswich

Author: Marta Cotterell Raffel

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781584651635

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Richly illustrated study of the central role of lace making in defining a colonial American community.

Findings
Findings

Author: Mary Carolyn Beaudry

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780300134803

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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.

Art in a Season of Revolution
Art in a Season of Revolution

Author: Margaretta M. Lovell

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2007-02-13

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0812219910

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"Lovell delights, astonishes, and challenges us with her insightful new readings of early American paintings and material culture objects."--"Journal of the Early Republic"

More Books
More Books

Author: Boston Public Library

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 902

ISBN-13:

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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.

A History Of Textiles
A History Of Textiles

Author: Kax Wilson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-28

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0429716192

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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.

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: Rhode Island School of Design

Publisher:

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13:

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