Straw Plaiting
Title | Straw Plaiting PDF eBook |
Author | Veronica Main |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2023-08-17 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 1789940761 |
'A must-have for anyone interested in working with straw and an astonishing contribution to the preservation of this endangered craft.' Jay Blades MBE, Co-Chair of Heritage Crafts An engaging makers' guide to the history and craft of straw plaiting, brimming with helpful step-by-step diagrams. Straw plaiting has been used to make accessories from hats and baskets to handbags, trimmings and homewares around the world for centuries. Once employing tens of thousands of people in the UK alone, the craft is now listed as Critically Endangered on Heritage Crafts' Red List. This book aims to change that, drawing on more than 50 previously unpublished patterns and techniques from around the world that will help you to unlock the history and preserve the skills of straw plaiting. For each pattern, follow the step-by-step diagrams and instructions and discover how they were developed whilst learning about materials, tools and preparation. Once familiar with the plaiting techniques – using straw as well as other materials – you will be able to develop your own skills, possibly blending in recycled materials, which are increasingly being used to produce beautiful and unique pieces.
Children of the Labouring Poor
Title | Children of the Labouring Poor PDF eBook |
Author | Eileen Wallace |
Publisher | Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Child labor |
ISBN | 9781905313495 |
Chronicling the contributions children made towards their families' livelihoods in hard times, this detailed record catalogs the high price children had to pay--sacrificing their health and education--while employed in agriculture, chimney sweeping, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, papermaking, and brick making in 19th-century Hertfordshire, England. This enlightening history demonstrates that the poor conditions in factories and mills, as well as in household chimneys, contributed to the many diseases and injuries that afflicted these young laborers. While there are examples of innovative manufacturers such as John Dickinson, who built respectable housing for his employees, the overall picture that emerges during this period is one in which Hertfordshire's children arduously struggled to make ends meet.
The Employment of Women
Title | The Employment of Women PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Labour |
Publisher | |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Labor movement |
ISBN |
Journal of the Society of Arts
Title | Journal of the Society of Arts PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1222 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Second Report of the Royal Commissioners on Technical Instruction
Title | Second Report of the Royal Commissioners on Technical Instruction PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Technical Instruction |
Publisher | |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
Second Report of the Royal Commissioners on Technical Instruction: General report
Title | Second Report of the Royal Commissioners on Technical Instruction: General report PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Technical Instruction |
Publisher | |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | Agriculture |
ISBN |
Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists
Title | Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists PDF eBook |
Author | Society of Dyers and Colourists |
Publisher | |
Pages | 622 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Dyes and dyeing |
ISBN |
For all interested in the use or manufacture of colours, and in calico printing, bleaching, etc.