Author: Eliza Caroline Calvert ObenchainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coverlets
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Discussion of the craftsmanship involved in making coverlets. More than 50 coverlet designs are reproduced, 16 in color.
A Book of Hand-woven Coverlets
Author: Eliza Caroline Calvert ObenchainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coverlets
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Discussion of the craftsmanship involved in making coverlets. More than 50 coverlet designs are reproduced, 16 in color.
The Woven Coverlets of Norway
Author: Katherine LarsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780295981314
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Showcases one of Norway's most beautiful and enduring folk arts.
The Coverlet Book
Author: Helene BressPublisher:
ISBN: 9781886388529
Category : Coverlets
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Textile Art from Southern Appalachia
Author: Kathleen Curtis WilsonPublisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9781570721984
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Features forty-four coverlets and two quilts made by hand weavers who lived in Western North Carolina, Eastern Kentucky, East Tennessee, and Southwest Virginia. Ms. Wilson has spent many years researching southern Appalachian overshot coverlet weaving.
Overshot
Author: Susan FallsPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820357723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteenth-century American South typically featured colored wool and cotton threads woven into striking geometric patterns. Although they are not as well known as other textiles and domestic objects, “overshot” coverlets were, and continue to be, significant examples of material culture that require tremendous skill and creativity to produce. They also express currents of conformity and dissent. In addition to being pleasing to the eye and hand, “overshot” coverlets have advanced a variety of social and political ends. At times exhibited in slave quarters along the seaboard in Georgia and South Carolina in association with plantation properties, they also appear in piedmont areas attached to the antebellum yeomanry, in the context of nationalist craft revivals, and in white-box contemporary art. With Overshot, Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith analyze what we can learn by examining the exhibition and interpretation of these materials within American public history. By showing how geometric overshot coverlets can be understood in relationship to the global economy and within politicized cultural movements, Falls and Smith demonstrate how these erstwhile domestic, utilitarian objects explode the art/craft dichotomy, belong to a rich narrative of historical art forms, and tell us far more about American culture today than simply representing a nostalgic past, particularly with regard to ideas about race, class, nationalism, women’s labor, and the separation of private versus public spaces.
A Book of Hand-woven Coverlets
Author: Eliza Calvert HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coverlets
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
A Book of Hand-woven Coverlets
Author: Eliza Caroline Calvert ObenchainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coverlets
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Discussion of the craftsmanship involved in making coverlets. More than 50 coverlet designs are reproduced, 16 in color.
Jacquard's Web
Author: James EssingerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192805789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Traces the 200-year evolution of the principles of Jacquard's knitting machines to the information revolution of the twentieth century and the desk-top computer of today. --From cover (p. 4).
Swedish Handweaving
Author: Malin SelanderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hand weaving
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes
Author: Norma SmaydaPublisher: Schiffer Craft
ISBN: 9780764332463
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book features the original sample collection and handwritten drafts of the talented, early 20th century weaver, Bertha Gray Hayes of Providence, Rhode Island. She designed and wove miniature overshot patterns for four-harness looms that are creative and unique. The book contains color reproductions of 72 original sample cards and 20 recently discovered patterns, many shown with a picture of the woven sample, and each with computer-generated drawdowns and drafting patterns. Her designs are unique in their asymmetry and personal in her use of name drafting to create the designs. Bertha Hayes attended the first nine National Conferences of American Handweavers (1938-1946). She learned to weave by herself through the Shuttle-Craft home course and was a charter member of the Shuttle-Craft Guild, and authored articles on weaving.