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Book Victorian Needlework

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Ledbetter
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2012-01-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Victorian Needlework written by Kathryn Ledbetter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marrying two exceptionally popular topics—needlework and women's history—this book provides an authoritative yet entertaining discussion of the diversity and importance of needlework in Victorian women's lives. Victorian Needlework explores these ubiquitous pastimes—their practice and their meaning in women's lives. Covering the period from 1837–1901, the book looks specifically at the crafts themselves examining quilting, embroidery, crochet, knitting, and more. It discusses required skills and the techniques women used as well as the technological innovations that influenced needlework during this period of rapid industrialization. This book is unique in its comprehensive treatment of the topic ranging across class, time, and technique. Readers will learn what needlework meant to "ladies," for whom it was a hobby reflecting refinement and femininity, and discover what such skills could mean as a "suitable" way for a woman to make a living, often through grueling labor. Such insights are illustrated throughout with examples from women's periodicals, needlework guides, pattern books, and personal memoirs that bring the period to life for the modern reader.

Book The Spectator

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1843
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1298 pages

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Book The Illuminated Magazine

Download or read book The Illuminated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Opera

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sedgley Marvel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1847
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 86 pages

Download or read book The Opera written by Sedgley Marvel and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Illustrated London News

Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heir to Ashley

Download or read book The Heir to Ashley written by Mrs. Henry Wood and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publishers  circular and booksellers  record

Download or read book Publishers circular and booksellers record written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hook   the Book  The Emergence of Crochet   Knitting in American Popular Culture  1840 1876  Exhibition Catalogue

Download or read book Hook the Book The Emergence of Crochet Knitting in American Popular Culture 1840 1876 Exhibition Catalogue written by and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of plain and fancy needlwork

Download or read book Handbook of plain and fancy needlwork written by Handbook and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bent s Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings  Works on the Fine Arts

Download or read book Bent s Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings Works on the Fine Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Stitch in Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aimee E. Newell
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-15
  • ISBN : 0821444751
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book A Stitch in Time written by Aimee E. Newell and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework—primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States—made by individual women aged forty years and over between 1820 and 1860, this exquisitely illustrated book explores how women experienced social and cultural change in antebellum America. The book is filled with individual examples, stories, and over eighty fine color photographs that illuminate the role that samplers and needlework played in the culture of the time. For example, in October 1852, Amy Fiske (1785–1859) of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, stitched a sampler. But she was not a schoolgirl making a sampler to learn her letters. Instead, as she explained, “The above is what I have taken from my sampler that I wrought when I was nine years old. It was w[rough]t on fine cloth [and] it tattered to pieces. My age at this time is 66 years.” Situated at the intersection of women’s history, material culture study, and the history of aging, this book brings together objects, diaries, letters, portraits, and prescriptive literature to consider how middle-class American women experienced the aging process. Chapters explore the physical and mental effects of “old age” on antebellum women and their needlework, technological developments related to needlework during the antebellum period and the tensions that arose from the increased mechanization of textile production, and how gift needlework functioned among friends and family members. Far from being solely decorative ornaments or functional household textiles, these samplers and quilts served their own ends. They offered aging women a means of coping, of sharing and of expressing themselves. These “threads of time” provide a valuable and revealing source for the lives of mature antebellum women. Publication of this book was made possible in part through generous funding from the Coby Foundation, Ltd and from the Quilters Guild of Dallas, Helena Hibbs Endowment Fund.

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1847
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 712 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quentin Durward  With illustr  by mm  Comte  Delort  and others

Download or read book Quentin Durward With illustr by mm Comte Delort and others written by sir Walter Scott (bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: