A Stitch in Time : The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America.
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- 9780821444757
- 746.46
- NK8812.N49 2014eb
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Physical Challenges of Needlework -- Chapter 2: Growing Old Gracefully -- Chapter 3: The Technological Reshaping of Antebellum Needlework -- Chapter 4: I Give and Bequeath This Quilt: Needlework as Property -- Chapter 5: Family Currency: The Gift Needlework of Aging Women -- Chapter 6: Biographical Needlework: Telling a Life Story -- Chapter 7: Threads of Life: Needlework as Memorial -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Decorative Needlework Made by Women Forty or Over between 1820 and 1860 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework--primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States--made by individual women aged forty years and over between 1820 and 1860, this exquisitely illustrated book explores how women experienced social and cultural change in antebellum America.The.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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