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Book Hands that Built New Hampshire

Download or read book Hands that Built New Hampshire written by Writers' Program (U.S.). New Hampshire and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selling Shaker

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  • Author : Stephen Bowe
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2007-01-01
  • ISBN : 1846310083
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Selling Shaker written by Stephen Bowe and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The simple yet striking lines of Shaker design grace much of the furniture we see in high-end department stores, and beautiful examples of it adorn the pages of Architectural Digest and House Beautiful. How did this style evolve from its origins in a humble, small religious community to the international design phenomenon it is today? This illustrated study explores the emergence of the Shaker style and how it was vigorously promoted by scholars and artists into the prominence it now enjoys. The heart of the Shaker style lies in the religious movement founded in the eighteenth century, where Stephen Bowe and Peter Richmond begin their chronicle. From there, the authors chart the evolution of the style into the twentieth century—particularly in the hands of design media, scholars, and art institutions. These Shaker “agents” repositioned Shaker style continuously—from local vernacular to high culture and then popular culture. Drawing on a rich array of sources, including museum catalogs, contemporary design magazines, and scholarly writings, Selling Shaker illustrates in detail how the Shaker style entered the general design consciousness and how the original aesthetic was gradually diluted into a generic style for a mass audience. A wholly original and fascinating study of American design and consumption, Selling Shaker is a unique resource for collectors, scholars, and anyone interested in the cultural history of a design aesthetic.

Book Hands that Built New Hampshire

Download or read book Hands that Built New Hampshire written by Writers' Program (U.S.). New Hampshire and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hooked Rugs

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  • Author : Cynthia Fowler
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-05
  • ISBN : 1351563521
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Hooked Rugs written by Cynthia Fowler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close look at the history of the modernist hooked rug, this book raises important questions about the broader history of American modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. Although hooked rugs are not generally associated with the avant-garde, this study demonstrates that they were a significant part of the artistic production of many artists engaged in modernist experimentation. Cynthia Fowler discusses the efforts of Ralph Pearson and of Zoltan and Rosa Hecht to establish modernist hooked rug industries in the 1920s, uncovering a previously undocumented history. The book includes a consideration of the rural workers used to create the modernist narrative of the hooked rug, as cottage industries were established throughout the rural Northeast and South to serve the ever increasing demand for hooked rugs by urban consumers. Fowler closely examines institutional enterprises that highlighted and engaged the modernist hooked rugs, such as key exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1930s and '40s. This study reveals the fluidity of boundaries among art, craft and design, and the profound efforts of a devoted group of modernists to introduce the general public to the value of modern art.

Book Hands that Built New Hampshire

Download or read book Hands that Built New Hampshire written by Writers' Program (N.H.) and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hand Made  Hand Played

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  • Author : Robert Shaw
  • Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781579907877
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Hand Made Hand Played written by Robert Shaw and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feast your eyes on more than 300 of today s most creative, imaginative, and gorgeous hand-made guitarsall illustrated in full color and featuring information about the innovative artisans who created them. Meet guitar-making legends, such as C.F. Martin, Les Paul, and Leo Fender, who revolutionized the instrument s design. Discover why the past 25 years have seen an explosion of craftspeople who build guitars by hand, employing an attention to detail factories can t afford and using higher quality materials and more technical skill than in any previous era. Explore the various guitar styles used in a range of musical traditions, from blues to classical. Detailed information about each guitar s specifications, plus personal statements and anecdotes from the artisans about their work and techniques complete each entry. Rounding out the book is a Web directory and an index of luthiers. Players, craftspeople, collectors, and those who are simply fans of this popular instrument will find this volume irresistible "

Book  Hands that Built New Hampshire

Download or read book Hands that Built New Hampshire written by New Hampshire Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All Hands

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 624 pages

Download or read book All Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical New Hampshire

Download or read book Historical New Hampshire written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hands That Built New Hampshire   The Story of Granite State Craftsmen Past and Present

Download or read book Hands That Built New Hampshire The Story of Granite State Craftsmen Past and Present written by Francis P. Murphy and published by Murphy Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for the readers notes. The Author need hardly say that any suggestions addressed to the case of the publishers, will meet with consideration in a future edition. We do not pretend to write or enlarge upon a new subject. Much has been said and written-and well said and written too on the art of fishing but loch-fishing has been rather looked upon as a second-rate performance, and to dispel this idea is one of the objects for which this present treatise has been written. Far be it from us to say anything against fishing, lawfully practised in any form but many pent up in our large towns will bear us out when me say that, on the whole, a days loch-fishing is the most convenient. One great matter is, that the loch-fisher is depend- ent on nothing but enough wind to curl the water, -and on a large loch it is very seldom that a dead calm prevails all day, -and can make his arrangements for a day, weeks beforehand whereas the stream- fisher is dependent for a good take on the state of the water and however pleasant and easy it may be for one living near the banks of a good trout stream or river, it is quite another matter to arrange for a days river-fishing, if one is looking forward to a holiday at a date some weeks ahead. Providence may favour the expectant angler with a good day, and the water in order but experience has taught most of us that the good days are in the minority, and that, as is the case with our rapid running streams, -such as many of our northern streams are, -the water is either too large or too small, unless, as previously remarked, you live near at hand, and can catch it at its best. A common belief in regard to loch-fishing is, that the tyro and the experienced angler have nearly the same chance in fishing, -the one from the stern and the other from the bow of the same boat. Of all the absurd beliefs as to loch-fishing, this is one of the most absurd. Try it. Give the tyro either end of the boat he likes give him a cast of ally flies he may fancy, or even a cast similar to those which a crack may be using and if he catches one for every three the other has, he may consider himself very lucky. Of course there are lochs where the fish are not abundant, and a beginner may come across as many as an older fisher but we speak of lochs where there are fish to be caught, and where each has a fair chance. Again, it is said that the boatman has as much to do with catching trout in a loch as the angler. Well, we dont deny that. In an untried loch it is necessary to have the guidance of a good boatman but the same argument holds good as to stream-fishing...

Book Skiing

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Skiing written by and published by . This book was released on 1976-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Appleton s Hand book of American Travel

Download or read book Appleton s Hand book of American Travel written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Shaker Lands and Shaker Hands

Download or read book From Shaker Lands and Shaker Hands written by M. Stephen Miller and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive volume on Shaker commercial ephemera

Book In a Class All Their Own

Download or read book In a Class All Their Own written by Tom Verde and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each boat has a story to tell and this book features nearly forty profiles of classic/uniqu e boats, drawn from articles written for the Westerly Sun newspaper during the summers of 2014 and 2015. Explore not only the histories of the individual vessels, but of their classes and designers, as well as their relationships to the environs in which they sailed, raced, cruised and, in some case, still operate as working vessels. These stories include the fabled history of the cat boat; the first fiberglass sailing yacht; a NY ferry boat repurposed as a houseboat; the oldest working fishing boat in Stonington, CT; racing rivalries in the Sound; the French love affair with American boat designs; and the Jazz Age era of luxury yachting, among others.

Book Industrial Employment Survey Bulletin

Download or read book Industrial Employment Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Industrial Employment Information Bulletin

Download or read book Industrial Employment Information Bulletin written by United States Employment Service and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: