Labour of the Stitch : The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress / Serena Dyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyer, Serena, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections

Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dressmaking--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Dressmaking.

Fashion prints--History--18th century.

Fashion prints.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Mar 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009188722

1009188720

9781009177689

1009177680