Author: Veronica Main
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1789940761
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
'A must-have for anyone interested in working with straw and an astonishing contribution to the preservation of this endangered craft.' Jay Blades MBE, Co-Chair of Heritage Crafts An engaging makers' guide to the history and craft of straw plaiting, brimming with helpful step-by-step diagrams. Straw plaiting has been used to make accessories from hats and baskets to handbags, trimmings and homewares around the world for centuries. Once employing tens of thousands of people in the UK alone, the craft is now listed as Critically Endangered on Heritage Crafts' Red List. This book aims to change that, drawing on more than 50 previously unpublished patterns and techniques from around the world that will help you to unlock the history and preserve the skills of straw plaiting. For each pattern, follow the step-by-step diagrams and instructions and discover how they were developed whilst learning about materials, tools and preparation. Once familiar with the plaiting techniques – using straw as well as other materials – you will be able to develop your own skills, possibly blending in recycled materials, which are increasingly being used to produce beautiful and unique pieces.
Straw Plaiting
Author: Veronica Main
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1789940761
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
'A must-have for anyone interested in working with straw and an astonishing contribution to the preservation of this endangered craft.' Jay Blades MBE, Co-Chair of Heritage Crafts An engaging makers' guide to the history and craft of straw plaiting, brimming with helpful step-by-step diagrams. Straw plaiting has been used to make accessories from hats and baskets to handbags, trimmings and homewares around the world for centuries. Once employing tens of thousands of people in the UK alone, the craft is now listed as Critically Endangered on Heritage Crafts' Red List. This book aims to change that, drawing on more than 50 previously unpublished patterns and techniques from around the world that will help you to unlock the history and preserve the skills of straw plaiting. For each pattern, follow the step-by-step diagrams and instructions and discover how they were developed whilst learning about materials, tools and preparation. Once familiar with the plaiting techniques – using straw as well as other materials – you will be able to develop your own skills, possibly blending in recycled materials, which are increasingly being used to produce beautiful and unique pieces.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1789940761
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
'A must-have for anyone interested in working with straw and an astonishing contribution to the preservation of this endangered craft.' Jay Blades MBE, Co-Chair of Heritage Crafts An engaging makers' guide to the history and craft of straw plaiting, brimming with helpful step-by-step diagrams. Straw plaiting has been used to make accessories from hats and baskets to handbags, trimmings and homewares around the world for centuries. Once employing tens of thousands of people in the UK alone, the craft is now listed as Critically Endangered on Heritage Crafts' Red List. This book aims to change that, drawing on more than 50 previously unpublished patterns and techniques from around the world that will help you to unlock the history and preserve the skills of straw plaiting. For each pattern, follow the step-by-step diagrams and instructions and discover how they were developed whilst learning about materials, tools and preparation. Once familiar with the plaiting techniques – using straw as well as other materials – you will be able to develop your own skills, possibly blending in recycled materials, which are increasingly being used to produce beautiful and unique pieces.
Children of the Labouring Poor
Author: Eileen Wallace
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 9781905313495
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Chronicling the contributions children made towards their families' livelihoods in hard times, this detailed record catalogs the high price children had to pay--sacrificing their health and education--while employed in agriculture, chimney sweeping, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, papermaking, and brick making in 19th-century Hertfordshire, England. This enlightening history demonstrates that the poor conditions in factories and mills, as well as in household chimneys, contributed to the many diseases and injuries that afflicted these young laborers. While there are examples of innovative manufacturers such as John Dickinson, who built respectable housing for his employees, the overall picture that emerges during this period is one in which Hertfordshire's children arduously struggled to make ends meet.
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 9781905313495
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Chronicling the contributions children made towards their families' livelihoods in hard times, this detailed record catalogs the high price children had to pay--sacrificing their health and education--while employed in agriculture, chimney sweeping, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, papermaking, and brick making in 19th-century Hertfordshire, England. This enlightening history demonstrates that the poor conditions in factories and mills, as well as in household chimneys, contributed to the many diseases and injuries that afflicted these young laborers. While there are examples of innovative manufacturers such as John Dickinson, who built respectable housing for his employees, the overall picture that emerges during this period is one in which Hertfordshire's children arduously struggled to make ends meet.
The Employment of Women
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Labour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Journal of the Society of Arts
Second Report of the Royal Commissioners on Technical Instruction
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Technical Instruction
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Second Report of the Royal Commissioners on Technical Instruction: General report
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Technical Instruction
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists
Author: Society of Dyers and Colourists
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dyes and dyeing
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
For all interested in the use or manufacture of colours, and in calico printing, bleaching, etc.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dyes and dyeing
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
For all interested in the use or manufacture of colours, and in calico printing, bleaching, etc.
Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue
Author: Robert Ellis (F.L.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description