Author: Anna DalviPublisher:
ISBN: 9781937513122
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Ancient Egypt in Lace and Color
Author: Anna DalviPublisher:
ISBN: 9781937513122
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Ancient Egypt
Author: George Robins GliddonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Mystic Shawls 2
Author: Anna DalviPublisher:
ISBN: 9781937513832
Category : Knitted lace
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Anna Dalvi is back with more Mystic shawls! From the author of Shaping Shawls and Ancient Egypt in Lace and Color comes the sequel to Mystic Shawls, filled with even more beautiful lace. Each of these shawls began as one of Anna's popular online knitalong patterns. Catch up with a dozen more shawl patterns from the Mystic series!
Ancient Egypt: a Series of Chapters on Early Egyptian History, Archaeology, and Other Subjects
Author: George Robins GliddonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385118646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Ancient Egypt
Author: George R. GliddenAncient Egypt
Author: GliddonEgypt for the Egyptians
Author: Sepulchral Monuments of Ancient Egypt
Author: A. DaninosChromatopia
Author: David ColesPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1760762016
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This origin story of history’s most vivid color pigments is perfect for artists, history buffs, science lovers, and design fanatics. Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic color and used it to create the famous blue crown of Queen Nefertiti? Or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? In the Roman Empire, hundreds of thousands of snails had to be sacrificed to produce a single ounce of dye. Throughout history, pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dung, and even crushed insects. From grinding down beetles and burning animal bones to alchemy and pure luck, Chromatopia reveals the origin stories behind over fifty of history’s most vivid color pigments. Featuring informative and detailed color histories, a section on working with monochromatic color, and “recipes” for paint-making, Chromatopia provides color enthusiasts with an eclectic story of how synthetic colors came to be. Red lead, for example, was invented by the ancient Greeks by roasting white lead, and it became the dominant red in medieval painting. Spanning from the ancient world to modern leaps in technology, and vibrantly illustrated throughout, this book will add a little chroma to anyone’s understanding of the history of colors.
Accessories to Modernity
Author: Susan HinerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Accessories to Modernity explores the ways in which feminine fashion accessories, such as cashmere shawls, parasols, fans, and handbags, became essential instruments in the bourgeois idealization of womanhood in nineteenth-century France. Considering how these fashionable objects were portrayed in fashion journals and illustrations, as well as fiction, the book explores the histories and cultural weight of the objects themselves and offers fresh readings of works by Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola, some of the most widely read novels of the period. As social boundaries were becoming more and more fluid in the nineteenth century, one effort to impose order over the looming confusion came, in the case of women, through fashion, and the fashion accessory thus became an ever more crucial tool through which social distinction could be created, projected, and maintained. Looking through the lens of fashion, Susan Hiner explores the interplay of imperialist expansion and domestic rituals, the assertion of privilege in the face of increasing social mobility, gendering practices and their relation to social hierarchies, and the rise of commodity culture and woman's paradoxical status as both consumer and object within it. Through her close focus on these luxury objects, Hiner reframes the feminine fashion accessory as a key symbol of modernity that bridges the erotic and proper, the domestic and exotic, and mass production and the work of art while making a larger claim about the "accessory" status—in terms of both complicity and subordination—of bourgeois women in nineteenth-century France. Women were not simply passive bystanders but rather were themselves accessories to the work of modernity from which they were ostensibly excluded.