Download or read book Rag Rugs and Rug Makers of Western Maryland written by Geraldine Niva Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weaving Rag Rugs written by Geraldine Niva Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weaving Rag Rugs written by Geraldine N. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rag Rugs and Rug Makers of Western Maryland written by Geraldine Niva Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rag Rug Weaving in Northwestern Pennsylvania 1930 1970 written by Ashlee R. Tecza and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My grandmother, Angela Benicki Pazco Tecza, wove rag rugs on a Studio four-harness loom in Erie County, Pennsylvania, from the late 1930s until the 1970s. Using E. McClung Fleming's artifact study model, I began research on rag rug weaving in northwestern Pennsylvania with analysis of extant artifacts, her loom and several rugs. Oral history interviews with other weavers from the same area helped me set her rag rug weaving activities into a cultural perspective. I compared my findings to those of Geraldine Niva Johnson, who completed an in-depth study of rag rug weaving in western Maryland in the 1970s. My findings regarding reasons and motivations for weaving were similar to those reported by Johnson. My oral interviews provided information on rug weaving in Erie County, Pennsylvania, from 1930s to the present day. I discovered that in the earlier decades, the decisions to weave rag rugs were often based on economics. Weaving rag rugs served several purposes in the life of farm women, like my grandmother. It was economical, and for many of those who lived during the depression era, it was a way to reuse household textiles. By weaving rag rugs, my grandmother was able to recycle clothing worn by any of her thirteen children and create something aesthetically pleasing for the farm home. Other women, in the early years, wove to supplement family income. Those who began weaving in the 1960s to 1980s usually did so for artistic reasons. They found it to be a satisfying hobby and often used their products as gifts for family and friends. Women of all decades found the rag rug weaving craft particularly suitable to home life and important for self-satisfaction and self esteem. The methods they used to learn and practice their weaving craft, and the ways they used the resulting rag rugs supports Johnson's belief that rag rug weaving should be considered a folk art.
Download or read book Ethnic Folklife Dissertations from the United States and Canada 1960 1980 written by Catherine Hiebert Kerst and published by Washington : American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1986 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications of the American Folklife Center written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Rag Rugs written by Jenni Stuart-Anderson and published by White Owl. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making is good for you. Exploring crafts can be relaxing and therapeutic : the projects in this book are accessible to anyone who is inspired to recycle old clothes and textiles into unique, decorative, useful projects. Our forbears improvised tools to recycle their worn clothes - mostly dark suiting or mill waste if they lived near a mill. Usually they made mats for their cold floors or as draft excluders across doors. Nowadays you can choose from so many more colors and textures - painting with rags! Try one project or more. You will be able to use the techniques to design and make your own one-off items for your home or as hand-made gifts. The techniques here are traditional and simple - you will be surprised at how drab fabrics become transformed. Simple designs work best and you can even improvise as you work. If a fabric runs out, then use another - I call that organic design! Hooking is the best technique for pictorial detail and different techniques could be combined for original wall art. Historically, rugs were made by several people sitting round a horizontal frame with the children cutting the pieces of rag which were prodded into the hessian (burlap) backing to make a shaggy mat. There is a prodded project (for purists) but you can also achieve the same effect without a frame by progging, which can be done on table or thigh (carefully). Warning – this craft can be addictive!
Download or read book Rag Rugs written by Juju Vail and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rag-rug making is a traditional craft. In Britain and North America the techniques that were most commonly used were hooking, prodding, braiding and weaving. These methods are now enjoying a revival, inspired partly by the desire to transform recycled materials into unique, hand-crafted pieces for the home.
Download or read book Midwestern Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Easy Beautiful Handmade Rag Rugs written by Deana David and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy and fun for everyone of all ages, learn everything you need to know about the timeless craft of making rag rugs! No loom, no machines, and no crocheting required, this engaging and accessible project guide will show you step-by-step how to make beautiful rag rug crafts completely by hand from start to finish. Opening with complete overviews on five different rug-making techniques – from rug hooking and punch needle rugs to prodded rugs, braided rugs, and sewn rugs – you’ll then learn how to design and transfer your pattern, choose colors, fabrics, and materials, and even dye your supplies. A detailed and inspiring projects and patterns section is then included for you finally make your very own handmade floor rugs, pillows, wall hangings, and more! Upcycle scrap materials and fabrics into beautiful rugs as you discover and fall in love with this sustainable craft!
Download or read book American Studies written by Jack Salzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-25 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.
Download or read book Women s Folklore Women s Culture written by Rosan A. Jordan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Women's Folklore, Women's Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on women's genre of folklore. Long ignored, women's folklore is often collaborative and frequently is enacted in the privacy of the domestic sphere. This book provides insights balancing traditional folklore scholarship. All of the authors also explore the relationship between make and female views and worlds. The book begins with the private world of women, performances within the intimacy of family and fields; it then studies women's folklore in the public arena; finally, the book looks at the interrelationships between public and private arenas and between male and female activities. By turning our attention to previously ignored women's realms, these essays provide a new perspective from which to view human culture as a whole and make Women's Folklore, Women's Culture a significant addition to folklore scholarship
Download or read book Handweaving written by Isabel Buschman and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buschman annotates more than 550 books and periodical titles published on the techniques and history of handweaving from 1928 through October 1989. She includes works on how to weave_basic weaving texts, books on looms and equipment, and patterns both for weaving and for woven articles; handweaving history and historic fabrics from around the world; works on Native American weaving, ranging from the Chilkats of the Northwest coast of North America, to the Pueblos and Navajos of our Southwest, Mexico, and Central America, and on through the rich weaving culture of the Andes; reference works containing specialized bibliographies and information on fibers, dyes, education and marketing; and periodicals. With author, title, and subject indexes.
Download or read book The Gypsy Scholar written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Weaver s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rag Rugs of England and America written by Emma Tennant and published by Walker Books Limited. This book was released on 1992 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-colour survey of rag rugs, fashioned from the remnants women have found to hand in their daily lives, in the last two centuries.
