Threading time : a cultural history of threadwork / Dolores Bausum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bausum, Dolores, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Needlework.

Needlework--History.

Fancy work.

Fancy work--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fort Worth, TX. : TCU Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

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 significance 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

Contents:

Preface vii Acknowledgements xi A Time to Sew1 (22)Athena's Gift23 (20)Threads `Twixt Cloister and Crown43 (22)Art of the Loom65 (22)Ballads of Harp Weavers87 (22)With Passion and Thread109 (22)Battle Yarns131 (22)Sewing for Bread in Years Gone By153 (20)Fortunate Daughters and Sons173 (18)Bibliography 191 (12)Index 203

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-201).

ISBN:

0-585-41561-7

OCLC:

179076138