Stitching the world embroidered maps and women's geographical education
Stitching the world: embroidered maps and women's geographical education

From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made and although American examples are more rare, they form a significant collection of artefacts. Descripti...

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1. Verfasser: Tyner, Judith A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham [u.a.] Ashgate 2015
Schriftenreihe:Studies in historical geography
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1600-1850
Geografie
Karte > Motiv
Frau
Sticken
Erziehung
England
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Zusammenfassung:From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made and although American examples are more rare, they form a significant collection of artefacts. Descriptions of these samplers stated that they were designed to teach needlework and geography. The focus of this book is not on stitches and techniques used in 'drafting' the maps, but rather why they were developed, how they diffused from the British Isles to the United States, and why they were made for such a brief time. There has been little serious study of these maps by cartographers and, moreover, historians of cartography have largely neglected the role of women in mapping. Children's maps have not been studied, although they might have much to offer about geographical teaching and perceptions of a period, and map samplers have been dismissed because they are the work of schoolgirls. Needlework historians, likewise, have not done in depth studies of map samplers until recently. Stitching the World is an interdisciplinary work drawing on cartography, needlework, and material culture. This book for the first time provides a critical analysis of these artefacts, showing that they offer significant insights into both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century geographic thought and cartography in the USA and the UK and into the development of female education
Beschreibung:Auch angekündigt u.d.T.: Geography through the needle's eye
Beschreibung:XXII, 142 S., [16] Bl. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9781409426356
1409426351

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