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Author: Peter Dormer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1997-06-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780719046186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDormer presents a series of lively, clearly argued discussions about the relevance of handicraft in a world whose aesthetics and design are largely determined by technology. The question of computer aided design in craft is also addressed.
Author: Christine Guth
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2021-09-21
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0520379810
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Crafts were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and how and from what materials they were made were matters of serious concern among all classes of society. In Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan, Christine M. E. Guth examines the network of forces--both material and immaterial--that supported Japan's rich, diverse, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Exploring the institutions, modes of thought, and reciprocal relationships among people, materials, and tools, she draws particular attention to the role of women in crafts, embodied knowledge, and the special place of lacquer as a medium. By examining the ways and values of making that transcend specific media and practices, Guth illuminates the 'craft culture' of early modern Japan"--
Author: DAVID SANDUA
Publisher: David Sandua
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Total Pages: 277
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn "The Culture of Craft Beer", weaves an exciting exploration of how beer, an ancient beverage, has evolved to become a symbol of creativity, community, and sustainability. Through its pages, the reader discovers the rise of craft beer, marked by breweries that prioritize quality, innovation, and respect for tradition. This book not only chronicles the history and development of the craft brewing movement but also celebrates the community spirit and local economic impact of these independent breweries. A must-read for beer enthusiasts and anyone interested in how a beverage can reflect and influence contemporary culture.
Author: Talia Schaffer
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2011-09-23
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0195398041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDomestic handicraft was an extraordinarily popular leisure activity in Victorian Britain, especially amongst middle-class women. Craftswomen pasted shells onto boxes, stitched fish scales onto silk, scorched patterns into wood, cast flower petals out of wax, and made needlework portraits of the royal spaniels. Yet despite its ubiquity, little has been written about this curious hobby. Providing a much-needed history of this under-studied phenomenon, Talia Schaffer demonstrates the importance of domestic handicraft in Victorian literature and culture.Novel Craft presents what Schaffer terms the "craft paradigm" -- a set of beliefs about representation, production, consumption, value, and beauty that were crucial to mid-Victorian thought. She uncovers how handicrafts expressed anxieties about modernity and offered an alternative to the conventional financial, political, and aesthetic ideas of the era. Novel Craft reveals how this mindset evolves in four major Victorian novels: Gaskell's Cranford, Yonge's The Daisy Chain, Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, and Oliphant's Phoebe Junior. Each chapter centers on a scene of craft production that expresses the novel's ideals and also interrogates the novel itself as a form of craft, and each chapter highlights an influential craft genre: paper crafts, pressed flowers, knitting, and hair jewelry. The book closes with a coda on the current resurgent crafts movement of Etsy.com as a fresh version of a Victorian sensibility.Featuring illustrations from two centuries of domestic handicraft, Schaffer deftly combines cultural history and literary analyses to create a revealing portrait of a neglected part of nineteenth-century life and highlights its continuing relevance in today's world of Martha Stewart, women's magazine crafts, and a rapidly expanding alt craft culture.
Author: Janice Helland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1351570854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCraft practice has a rich history and remains vibrant, sustaining communities while negotiating cultures within local or international contexts. More than two centuries of industrialization have not extinguished handmade goods; rather, the broader force of industrialization has redefined and continues to define the context of creation, deployment and use of craft objects. With object study at the core, this book brings together a collection of essays that address the past and present of craft production, its use and meaning within a range of community settings from the Huron Wendat of colonial Quebec to the Girls? Friendly Society of twentieth-century England. The making of handcrafted objects has and continues to flourish despite the powerful juggernaut of global industrialization, whether inspired by a calculated refutation of industrial sameness, an essential means to sustain a cultural community under threat, or a rejection of the imposed definitions by a dominant culture. The broader effects of urbanizing, imperial and globalizing projects shape the multiple contexts of interaction and resistance that can define craft ventures through place and time. By attending to the political histories of craft objects and their makers, over the last few centuries, these essays reveal the creative persistence of various hand mediums and the material debates they represented.
Author: Sally Coulthard
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1787132978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrafted is a celebration of craft in the 21st century – a definitive visual guide to all things handmade. Featuring over 73 of the most popular and well-established crafts, Sally Coulthard explores their history, materials and techniques as she offers a deeper insight into some of your favourite crafts and provides inspiration for both new and ancient creative pursuits. After an introductory section covering the culture of craft (its definition, why it matters, history and community), the main body of the book consists of beautifully illustrated entries on 73 of the world's most established crafts. The scope is encyclopaedic and covers Paper, Pen & Print (bookbinding, origami, calligraphy, lino printing), Textiles, Cloth & Leather (fur & leather, embroidery, knitting, dyeing), Pottery, Glass & Stone (porcelain, stained glass, stone carving), Wood, Willow & Nature (basket weaving, wood carving, lime plastering and thatching) and Metal (gold, bronze, cast iron and steel). A comprehensive directory of craft organisations and professional communities and guilds, completes this groundbreaking compendium.
Author: Mia Farrell
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 0766067726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom inventors to writers to heroes, African-American history is made up of remarkable people. Step into the world of African-American culture with these fun, easy crafts and connect with people like Harriet Tubman, Ralph Ellison, George Washington Carver, and the Harlem Globetrotters!
Author: Benchara Branford
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sahanawaz Hussain
Publisher: Self publishing
Published: 2024-09-27
Total Pages: 179
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book “CULTURE AND TRADITION OF WEST BENGAL” by Sahanawaz Hussain highlights the different culture of west Bengal. The state west Bengal has a diverse culture. Author Sahanawaz Hussain highlights all the culture of different district of west Bengal starting from North Bengal to South Bengal. West Bengal boasts a rich literary and cultural heritage with evidenced by authors like Rabindranath Tagore,folk music like baul,Gambhira as well as Najrul Geeti,Rabindra Sangeet. West Bengal is the home of a thriving cinema industry dubbed “Tollywood”.throughout the year many festivals are celebrated in bengal.
Author: Peter Dormer
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Published: 1997
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