Threading time a cultural history of threadwork - Bausum, Dolores (TCU Press, 2001)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201)
"This is a book about both art and people. The author draws on stories about threadworkers from ancient literature - the Bible, the Iliad, and the Odyssey - and from more recent works by such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theodore Dreiser, Margaret Mitchell, and John Updike. Works by two Germans - play-wright Gerhart Hauptmann and artist Kathe Kollwitz - and English poets such as Robert Burns and William Blake illustrate the sweatshops characteristic of textile and garment production for centuries, a pattern that persists today in developing countries." "Artistic images from classic sculpture, a window from the Cathedral at Chartres, paintings by such masters as Vermeer and Monet, twentieth-century quilts, and works by contemporary painters such as Elien Day Hale and Margaret Schillie further illustrate the significence of thread-work." "As an original view of threadwork and those who create it written from a broad chronological perspective, Threading Time reaches beyond textile artisans and collectors to present a study significant to readers of literature, women's history, and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
1 - A Time to Sew -- - 2 - Athena's Gift -- - 3 - Threads 'Twixt Cloister and Crown -- - 4 - Art of the Loom -- - 5 - Ballads of Harp Weavers -- - 6 - With Passion and Thread -- - 7 - Battle Yarns -- - 8 - Sewing for Bread in Years Gone By -- - 9 - Fortunate Daughters and Sons