Author: Jennifer Sanders
Publisher: Lothian Books
ISBN: 9780850915792
Category : Canvas embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 61

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Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Jennifer Sanders
Publisher: Lothian Books
ISBN: 9780850915822
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Jennifer Sanders
Publisher: Lothian Books
ISBN: 9780850915938
Category : Crocheting
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Author: Loma Ruddock
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Category : Embroidery$vExhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 5

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Author: Jennifer Sanders
Publisher: Lothian Books
ISBN: 9780850915921
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Judith Winternitz
Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service
ISBN:
Category : Decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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A lavish photodocumentation in the form of multicultural objects of everyday life, not in museums but in use by individuals and families. Brought to Australia by immigrants from Europe, Asia and the Pacific, here are textiles, jewelry, pottery, metalwork and the like, all reproduced in color. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Lorinda Cramer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350069639
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing. Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the book examines how needlework's practice and products were vital in the contest for social position in the turmoil of the first two decades of the Victorian rush from 1851. Placing women firmly at the center of colonial history, it explores how the needle became a tool for stitching together identity. From decorative needlework to household making and mending, women's sewing was a vehicle for establishing, asserting, and maintaining social status. Interdisciplinary in scope, Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia draws on material culture, written primary sources, and pictorial evidence, to create a rich portrait of the objects and manners that defined genteel goldfields living. Giving voice to women's experiences and positioning them as key players in the fabric of gold-rush society, this volume offers a fresh critical perspective on gender and textile history.

Author: Marion Fletcher
Publisher:
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Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Diana Mary Eva Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443879428
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This study shows how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and synaesthetic metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are examined using affect theory from Silvan Tomkins and Brian Massumi and work on synaesthesia by Richard Cytowic, Lawrence Marks, and V.S. Ramachandran, among others. Synaesthetic writing, including synaesthetic metaphors, has been explored in poetry since the 1920s and, more recently, in fiction, but these studies have been general in nature. By narrowing the field of investigation to those novels that specifically employ three types of hand-crafted textiles (quilt-making, knitting and embroidery), the book isolates how these textiles are used in fiction. The combination of synaesthesia, memory, metaphor and, particularly, synaesthetic metaphor in fiction with textiles in the text of the case studies selected, shows how these are used to create affect in readers, enhancing their engagement in the story. The work is framed within the context of the history of textile production and the use of textiles in fiction internationally, but concentrates on Australian authors who have used textiles in their writing. The decision to focus on Australian authors was taken in light of the quality and depth of the writing of textile fiction produced in Australia between 1980 and 2005 in the three categories of hand-crafted textiles – quilt-making, knitting and embroidery. The texts chosen for intensive study are: Kate Grenville’s The Idea of Perfection (1999, quilting); Marele Day’s Lambs of God (1997, knitting) and Anne Bartlett’s Knitting (2005, knitting); Jessica Anderson’s Tirra Lirra by the River (1978, embroidery) and Marion Halligan’s Spider Cup (1990, embroidery).