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Author : Carol Strickler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Woven Coverlets written by Carol Strickler and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eliza Calvert Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book A Book of Hand-woven Coverlets written by Eliza Calvert Hall and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helene Bress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781886388529
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (885 download)
Download or read book The Coverlet Book written by Helene Bress and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Beck Pritchard
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810935396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Degrees of Latitude written by Margaret Beck Pritchard and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated for their rarity, historical importance, and beauty, the maps of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries in the collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation provide an invaluable resource for the history of settlement in America. In the colonies, maps were essential in facilitating trade and travel, substantiating land claims, and settling boundary disputes. Today, knowing exactly what maps were owned and used during the period gives us a much richer understanding of the aspirations of early Americans.This large, handsome volume -- a carefully researched cultural investigation -- examines how maps were made and marketed, why people here and abroad purchased them, what they reveal about the emerging American nation, and why they were so significant to the individuals who owned them. Among the rare or unique examples included here are several maps that have never before been published. A must for map collectors and historians, this book will also be treasured by the millions who travel each year to Colonial Williamsburg to celebrate their American heritage.
Author : Katherine Larson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295981314
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (813 download)
Download or read book The Woven Coverlets of Norway written by Katherine Larson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases one of Norway's most beautiful and enduring folk arts.
Author : Susan Falls
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820357723
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Overshot written by Susan Falls and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Amelia Peck
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870995928
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book American Quilts & Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Amelia Peck and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogs the Museum's quilt and coverlet collection and discusses the history of the quiltmaker's art
Author : Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Early American Hand-woven Coverlets written by Art Institute of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan DeJean
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632864746
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book The Queen's Embroiderer written by Joan DeJean and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Tom Knisely
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811762793
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Handwoven Baby Blankets written by Tom Knisely and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What better way to welcome that precious, tiny new person than with a luxurious, handwoven blanket! These beautiful, colorful designs will appeal to today's contemporary moms, as well as lovers of traditional weaves.
Author : James Essinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192805789
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Jacquard's Web written by James Essinger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).
Author : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307416860
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Age of Homespun written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history. In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates unravel those simplified illusions, revealing important clues to the culture and people who made them. Ulrich uses an Indian basket to explore the uneasy coexistence of native and colonial Americans. A piece of silk embroidery reveals racial and class distinctions, and two old spinning wheels illuminate the connections between colonial cloth-making and war. Pulling these divergent threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history.
Author : Kathleen Curtis Wilson
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570721984
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Textile Art from Southern Appalachia written by Kathleen Curtis Wilson and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Carol Strickler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 093402667X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns written by Carol Strickler and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1991-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This must-have draft book contains almost 1000 different patterns on more than 25 weave structures. Introductory chapters provide a thorough understanding of how each structure works.
Author : Rabbit Goody
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811748847
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Pattern Weaving written by Rabbit Goody and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic steps needed to weave luxurious fabrics on a foot-treadle handloom.
Author : Norma Smayda
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
ISBN 13 : 9780764332463
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (324 download)
Download or read book Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes written by Norma Smayda and published by Schiffer Craft. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs. Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.
Author : Marguerite Porter Davison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Handweaver's Source Book written by Marguerite Porter Davison and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
