The Book of Looms
The Book of Looms

Author: Eric Broudy

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780874516494

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A heavily illustrated classic on the evolution of the handloom is now reissued in a handy paper edition.

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 Loom of God
The Loom of God

Author: Clifford A. Pickover

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781402764004

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Previous ed. published in 1997 under the title: The loom of God: mathematical tapestries at the edge of time, by Plenum Press.

The Uses of the Past
The Uses of the Past

Author: Herbert Joseph Muller

Publisher: Schocken

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780805207835

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Recognizing the paradoxes and incongruities in the history of Western civilization, the author assesses its value in guiding today's societies

The Art of History
The Art of History

Author: Christopher Bram

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2016-07-05

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1555979394

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One has to look no further than the audiences hungry for the narratives served up by Downton Abbey or Wolf Hall to know that the lure of the past is as seductive as ever. But incorporating historical events and figures into a shapely narrative is no simple task. The acclaimed novelist Christopher Bram examines how writers as disparate as Gabriel García Márquez, David McCullough, Toni Morrison, Leo Tolstoy, and many others have employed history in their work. Unique among the "Art Of" series, The Art of History engages with both fiction and narrative nonfiction to reveal varied strategies of incorporating and dramatizing historical detail. Bram challenges popular notions about historical narratives as he examines both successful and flawed passages to illustrate how authors from different genres treat subjects that loom large in American history, such as slavery and the Civil War. And he delves deep into the reasons why War and Peace endures as a classic of historical fiction. Bram's keen insight and close reading of a wide array of authors make The Art of History an essential volume for any lover of historical narrative.

The Loom
The Loom

Author: Shella Gillus

Publisher: Ideals Publications

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780824948160

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Lydia, an old weaver slave, dreams of a better life, but she is torn when she has the opportunity to escape and pass as a white woman, but must leave the man she loves behind in the process.

Loom and Spindle
Loom and Spindle

Author: Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2011-03-16

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1429045248

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Author Harriet Robinson (1825-1911), born Harriet Jane Hanson in Boston, offers a first person account of her life as a factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts in this 1898 work. Robinson moved with her widowed mother and three siblings to Lowell as the cotton industry was booming, and began working as a bobbin duffer at the age of ten for $2 a week. Her reflections of the life, some 60 years later, are unfailingly upbeat. She was educated, in public school, by private lesson, and in church. The community was tightly knit. She also had the opportunity to write poetry and prose for the factory girls' literary magazine The Lowell Offering. When mill girls returned to their rural family homes, she says, "...instead of being looked down upon as 'factory girls, ' they were more often welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new fashions, new books, and new ideas with them."