| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201). |
| Summary |
"This is a book about both art and people. The author draws on stories about threadworkers from ancient literature - the Bible, the Iliad, and the Odyssey - and from more recent works by such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theodore Dreiser, Margaret Mitchell, and John Updike. Works by two Germans - play-wright Gerhart Hauptmann and artist Kathe Kollwitz - and English poets such as Robert Burns and William Blake illustrate the sweatshops characteristic of textile and garment production for centuries, a pattern that persists today in developing countries." "Artistic images from classic sculpture, a window from the Cathedral at Chartres, paintings by such masters as Vermeer and Monet, twentieth-century quilts, and works by contemporary painters such as Elien Day Hale and Margaret Schillie further illustrate the significence of thread-work." "As an original view of threadwork and those who create it written from a broad chronological perspective, Threading Time reaches beyond textile artisans and collectors to present a study significant to readers of literature, women's history, and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Incorporated All Rights Reserved. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
1. A Time to Sew -- 2. Athena's Gift -- 3. Threads 'Twixt Cloister and Crown -- 4. Art of the Loom -- 5. Ballads of Harp Weavers -- 6. With Passion and Thread -- 7. Battle Yarns -- 8. Sewing for Bread in Years Gone By -- 9. Fortunate Daughters and Sons. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Needlework.
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Needlework -- History.
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Fancy work.
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Fancy work -- History.
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Needlework -- General.
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Fancy work. (OCoLC)fst00920639
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Needlework. (OCoLC)fst01035433
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bausum, Dolores. Threading time. Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, ©2001 0875652417 (DLC) 00051226 |
| ISBN |
0585415617 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585415611 (electronic bk.) |
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