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A Stitch in Time : The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (428 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821444757
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Stitch in TimeDDC classification:
  • 746.46
LOC classification:
  • NK8812.N49 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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