Author: Gertrude WhitingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Needlework
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Tools and Toys of Stitchery
Author: Gertrude WhitingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Needlework
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Old-time Tools and Toys of Needlework
Author: Gertrude WhitingPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486225173
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Describes the forms and uses of winders, bobbins, hoops, frames, bodkins, and other sewing implements used in various world cultures
Old-Time Tools & Toys of Needlework
Author: Gertrude WhitingPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486166546
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
More than 200 illustrations of hoops, frames, pins, pincushions, punches, bobbins, bodkins, shuttles, spinning wheels, sewing machines, and more from a wide array of cultures. Index.
Needlework through History
Author: Catherine Amoroso LesliePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313342474
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Needlework serves functional purposes, such as providing warmth, but has also communicated individual and social identity, spiritual beliefs, and aesthetic ideals throughout time and geography. Needlework traditions are often associated with rituals and celebrations of life events. Often-overlooked by historians, practicing needlework and creating needlework objects provides insights to the history of everyday life. Needlework techniques traveled with merchants and explorers, creating a legacy of cross-cultural exchange. Some techniques are virtually universal and others are limited to a small geographical area. Settlers brought traditions which were sometimes re-invented as indigenous arts. This volume of approximately 75 entries is a comprehensive resource on techniques and cultural traditions for students, information professionals, and collectors.
The Complete Encyclopedia of Stitchery
Author: Mildred Graves RyanPublisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9781402719486
Category : Crocheting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Here is the classic reference for all needleworkers, the one handy volume that covers all major types of stitchery and their techniques, tools, and materials. Over 1,400 detailed illustrations showcase every basic stitch or knot and its variations, and the more than 1,000 entries include bargello, crewel, crocheting, embroidering, knitting, macram�, needlepoint, rugmaking, sewing, and tatting. Find out how to crochet fringe and hairpin lace; do beadwork, candlewicking, gros point, and other forms of embroidery; knit Fair Isle, Scandinavian, and Shetland styles; create appliqu� patchwork by hand or machine; and braid, knot, and hook a range of rugs. For every mode of stitchery, there's a list of common abbreviations used in pattern instructions and a detailed summary of designs.
More Books
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
Hedonizing Technologies
Author: Rachel MainesPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801891469
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.
Antiques
Author: Electric Light
Author: Sandy IsenstadtPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026203817X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
How electric light created new spaces that transformed the built environment and the perception of modern architecture. In this book, Sandy Isenstadt examines electric light as a form of architecture—as a new, uniquely modern kind of building material. Electric light was more than just a novel way of brightening a room or illuminating a streetscape; it brought with it new ways of perceiving and experiencing space itself. If modernity can be characterized by rapid, incessant change, and modernism as the creative response to such change, Isenstadt argues, then electricity—instantaneous, malleable, ubiquitous, evanescent—is modernity's medium. Isenstadt shows how the introduction of electric lighting at the end of the nineteenth century created new architectural spaces that altered and sometimes eclipsed previously existing spaces. He constructs an architectural history of these new spaces through five examples, ranging from the tangible miracle of the light switch to the immaterial and borderless gloom of the wartime blackout. He describes what it means when an ordinary person can play God by flipping a switch; when the roving cone of automobile headlights places driver and passenger at the vertex of a luminous cavity; when lighting in factories is seen to enhance productivity; when Times Square became an emblem of illuminated commercial speech; and when the absence of electric light in a blackout produced a new type of space. In this book, the first sustained examination of the spatial effects of electric lighting, Isenstadt reconceives modernism in architecture to account for the new perceptual conditions and visual habits that followed widespread electrification.
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