Samplers & Samplermakers
Title | Samplers & Samplermakers PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jaene Edmonds |
Publisher | Rizzoli International Publications |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
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"American classrooms have gone largely unrecorded, these astonishing embroideries which are usually signed, dated, and even sometimes inscribed with the names of the towns in which they were worked and the names of the embroiderers' teachers serve as historic documents, attesting to the existence of colonial education for women. There is a story behind each of the nearly eighty samplers illustrated in this book"--Insleaves.
Sampler Workbook: Motifs and Patterns
Title | Sampler Workbook: Motifs and Patterns PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Vincent |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2010-08-30 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 1408110156 |
Mønstre til korsstingsbroderi og andre broderiteknikker, hvor motiverne er bygninger, mennesker, træer, dyr, borter, blomsterarrangementer, tal og bogstaver
Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans
Title | Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans PDF eBook |
Author | Tandy Hersh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Art |
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Prologue
Title | Prologue PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 696 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Archives |
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A Stitch in Time
Title | A Stitch in Time PDF eBook |
Author | Aimee E. Newell |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2014-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0821444751 |
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.
Imitation and Improvement
Title | Imitation and Improvement PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Lukacher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | Embroidery |
ISBN | 9780988509009 |
American Samplers
Title | American Samplers PDF eBook |
Author | Ethel Stanwood Bolton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 694 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Samplers |
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