Threading time : a cultural history of threadwork / Dolores Bausum
- Author
- Bausum, Dolores
- Published
- Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, [2001]
- Copyright Date
- ©2001
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- 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.
- 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, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0585415617 (electronic bk.)
9780585415611 (electronic bk.)
9780875652412
0875652417 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201).
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