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Author: Florence M. Montgomery
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780393732245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1984, this remains the definitive study of textiles as they were used in early American homes.
Author: Barbara M. Tucker
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jay J. Lambert
Publisher:
Published: 2020-11-06
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780964124820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Textile Colossus: The Story of Fall River, Massachusetts, its Cotton Manufacturing Industry, and its People is by Jay J. Lambert, president of the Board of Directors of the Fall River Historical Society. Jay devoted over a decade painstakingly researching and writing this major contribution to the history of the American textile industry. This book can be regarded as a definitive work on the subject. American Textile Colossus is a sweeping saga of Fall River's old cotton textile industry - the mills, the managerial hierarchy, the workforce, and the events and issues that shaped their lives. Documenting the cotton textile industry from the local perspective of Fall River, it is an unpretentious effort to understand the city's role in the industrialization of America.
Author: Ann Marguerite Tartsinis
Publisher: Bard Graduate Center
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300199437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915-1928 held at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture from September 27, 2013 through February 9, 2014."--Title page verso.
Author: Billie Coleman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467124257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Macon to Hawkinsville, the history of Georgia's once thriving textile mills is documented in this visual history. Cotton was once king throughout Georgia. Reconstruction investors and railroad tycoons saw this potential to open textile mills in the South instead of sending cotton up North. Towns across Central Georgia became a prime spot to locate textile mills because of the access to cotton from local farms, cheap labor, and nearby rivers to power the mills. Textile mills were operated in cities and towns across Central Georgia such as Macon, Columbus, Augusta, Tifton, Forsyth, Porterdale, and Hawkinsville, among others. The textile mills provided employment and sometimes a home in their villages to people across Georgia as the agrarian lifestyle gave way to industrial expansion. In these mills, photographer Lewis Hine captured iconic images of child labor. After the decline of production and closing of the mills, many have been revived into new usages that honor the legacy of the mill workers and their families who lived in the villages of the textile mills across Central Georgia.
Author: Susan Meller
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the catalogue for the largest picture show in the world: the images on printed cloth.
Author: Pamela Parmal
Publisher: MFA Publications
Published: 2021-04-27
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780878468768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. A Diné women weaves a blanket for a U.S. Army soldier stationed in the Southwest. A quilted Lady Liberty, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln mark the resignation of Richard Nixon. These are just a few of the diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Spanning more than four hundred years, the fifty-six works of textile art in this book express the personal narratives of their makers and owners and connect to broader stories of global trade, immigration, industry, marginalization, and territorial and cultural expansion. Made by Americans of European, African, Native, and Hispanic heritage, these engaging works of art range from family heirlooms to acts of political protest, each with its own story to tell.
