Download or read book The History of the Shoddy trade written by Samuel Jubb and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shoddy written by Hanna Rose Shell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable story that moves from nineteenth-century England to today’s global ecological concerns around fast fashion.” —Times Literary Supplement Starting in the early 1800s, shoddy was the name given to a new material made from reclaimed wool, and to one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling. Old rags and leftover fabric clippings were ground to bits by a machine known as “the devil” and then reused. Usually undisclosed, shoddy—also known as reworked wool—became suit jackets, army blankets, mattress stuffing, and much more. Shoddy is the afterlife of rags. And Shoddy, the book, reveals hidden worlds of textile intrigue. Hanna Rose Shell takes us on a journey from Haiti to the “shoddy towns” of West Yorkshire in England, to the United States, back in time to the British cholera epidemics and the American Civil War, and into agricultural fields, textile labs, and rag-shredding factories. The narrative is both literary and historical, drawing on an extraordinary range of sources from court cases to military uniforms, mattress labels to medical textbooks, political cartoons to high art, and bringing richly drawn characters and unexpected objects to life. Along the way, shoddy becomes equally an evocative object and a portal into another world. Shell exposes an interwoven tale of industrial espionage, political infighting, scientific inquiry, ethnic prejudices, and war profiteering, and shows how, over the past century, the shredding “devil” has moved from wool to synthetics such as nylon stockings and Kevlar. The use of the term “virgin” wool emerged as an effort by the wool industry to counter shoddy’s appeal: to make shoddy seem . . . well, shoddy. Over time, the word would become a synonym for “inferior” and describe a host of personal, ethical, commercial, and societal failings. And yet, there was always, within shoddy, the alluring concept of regeneration—of what we today think of as conscious clothing, eco-fashion, or sustainable textiles. “In a brilliantly quixotic, scholarly rich, fabulously illustrated trek, Shell guides readers through the history of the reprocessing of used clothing and textiles, reflecting on human ornament, fears of contagion (think of the associations of ‘shoddy’ versus ‘virgin’ wool), and the evolution of a vast industry.” —Harvard Magazine “The fascinating story of how a respectable textile product became synonymous with all things inferior . . . . a fun ride.” —Washington Independent Review of Books

Download or read book The Days of Shoddy written by Henry Morford and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shoddy written by Arthur Wood (dramatist.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Manufacture of Woolen Worsted and Shoddy in France and England and Jute in Scotland written by United States. Department of Commerce and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of the Shoddy Trade Its Rise Progress and Present Condition written by Samuel JUBB and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shoddy A Yorkshire Tale of Home written by Arthur Wood (Novelist.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Russian Ball Or the Adventures of Miss Clementina Shoddy A Humorous Description in Verse by a New York Editor written by Clementina SHODDY and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shoddy Cove written by Betty Levin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clare's summer has been ruined. With Dad away, Clare is forced to accompany her mother to the Cossit Island Village living historical museum. Every day she has to wear long, awkward 1830s-style dresses and card wool in the hot, gloomy Grimes homestead. Then two children appear -- a boy who knows how to spin wool without even using a spindle and his little sister who throws a fit in the middle of a funeral reenactment. They are not ordinary tourists. Clare sees them day after day. Who are these strange children? What are they doing at Cossit Island Village? As Clare tries to unravel their story, she stumbles upon a second mystery, nearly two hundred years old, and just as intriguing and suspenseful as the first...

Download or read book Textile World Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wool and Manufactures of Wool written by United States. Tariff Board and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wool the World s Comforter written by William Dermot Darby and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Merchandise Misbranding Bills written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Textile Manufacturers Directory of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Wool Grower written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers written by National Association of Wool Manufacturers and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin written by National Association of Wool Manufacturers and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bibliography of wool and the woolen manufacture": v. 21, 1891, p. 118-134.