Women and the material culture of needlework and textiles, 1750-1950 , c2009
- Title(s):
- Women and the material culture of needlework and textiles, 1750-1950 / edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin.
- Published/Created:
- Farnham, England ; Ashgate, c2009.
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009. - Physical Description:
- xvi, 296 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNK8809 .W66 2009 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu] - Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9558861
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-286) and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Art and society.Fancy work.Needlework.Women and the decorative arts.Women artisans.
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- Introduction : Threading women / Maureen Daly Goggin
- The needle as the pen : intentionality, needlework, and the production of alternate discourses of power / Heather Pristash, Inez Schaechterle, and Sue Carter Wood
- Stitching a life in "Pen of steele and silken inke" : Elizabeth Parker's circa 1830 sampler / Maureen Daly Goggin
- "Tattered to pieces" : Amy Fiske's sampler and the changing roles of women in antebellum New England / Aimee E. Newell
- "I dearly loved that machine" : women and the objects of home sewing in the 1940s / Marcia McLean
- Turn-of-the-century quilts : embodied objects in a web of relationships / Beverly Gordon and Laurel Horton
- Crazy quilts and controlled lives : consumer culture and the meaning of women's domestic work in the American Far West / Cynthia Culver Prescott
- Native quiltmaking : history, traditions, and studies / Marsha MacDowell
- Mundillo and identity : the revival and transformation of handmade lace in Puerto Rico / Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
- Invisible seamstresses : feminine works in Venetian convents from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century / Isabella Campagnol
- Textile mills and the political economy of domestic womanhood in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The silent partner / Laura A. Smith
- Recovering American women industrial designers : Florence Cory as a nineteenth-century case study / Sarah Johnson
- Hooking magic : transforming women's handicraft into art / Cynthia Fowler
- American women and wartime hand knitting, 1750-1950 / Susan M. Strawn.