Author:
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862281
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Describes the shops, working methods, and products of the different types of tradesmen and craftsmen who shaped the early American economy.
Colonial Craftsmen
Author:
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862281
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Describes the shops, working methods, and products of the different types of tradesmen and craftsmen who shaped the early American economy.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862281
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Describes the shops, working methods, and products of the different types of tradesmen and craftsmen who shaped the early American economy.
The Colonial Craftsman
Author: Carl Bridenbaugh
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Excellent study examines lives and work of American cabinetmakers, silversmiths, pewterers, printers, painters, blacksmiths, and many other artisans, before 1775. "A fascinating study." — The New Yorker. 18 illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486144739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Excellent study examines lives and work of American cabinetmakers, silversmiths, pewterers, printers, painters, blacksmiths, and many other artisans, before 1775. "A fascinating study." — The New Yorker. 18 illustrations.
The Blacksmiths
Author:
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Introduces the history of blacksmithing and discusses the techniques, products, well-known blacksmiths, and commercial importance of this trade in colonial America.
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Introduces the history of blacksmithing and discusses the techniques, products, well-known blacksmiths, and commercial importance of this trade in colonial America.
Colonial Living
Author:
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Describes the industries, schools, society, culture, and growth of the coastal settlements during the colonial period.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Describes the industries, schools, society, culture, and growth of the coastal settlements during the colonial period.
Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre-colonial Eastern India
Author: Asha Shukla Choubey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100047769X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive socio-cultural history of crafts and crafts persons in pre-colonial Eastern India. It focuses on the technology of crafts as being integral to the traditional lives of the crafts persons and explores their cultural and social world. It offers an in-depth analysis of the complexities of craft technologies in the three sectors of cotton textile, sericulture and silk textile and mining and metallurgy in the regions of Bihar and Jharkhand in Eastern India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Apart from technology, the book discusses a range of socio-economic themes including craft production systems; marketing and financing patterns; impact of contact with the world market; craft persons’ identities in terms of caste affiliations and group divisions; negotiations for upward caste mobility; contestations and dissent of lower castes; power and social stratification; functioning of caste panchayats; gender division of craft labour; myths, beliefs and religiosity attributed to craft usages; social and ritual traditions; and contemporary craft traditions. Rich in archival and diverse sources, including oral traditions, paintings, and findings from extensive field visits and interactions with crafts persons, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of crafts, medieval Indian history, social history, sociology and social anthropology, economic history, cultural history, science and technology studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest government and non-governmental organisations, textile historians, craft and design specialists, contemporary craft industrial sector, and museums.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100047769X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive socio-cultural history of crafts and crafts persons in pre-colonial Eastern India. It focuses on the technology of crafts as being integral to the traditional lives of the crafts persons and explores their cultural and social world. It offers an in-depth analysis of the complexities of craft technologies in the three sectors of cotton textile, sericulture and silk textile and mining and metallurgy in the regions of Bihar and Jharkhand in Eastern India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Apart from technology, the book discusses a range of socio-economic themes including craft production systems; marketing and financing patterns; impact of contact with the world market; craft persons’ identities in terms of caste affiliations and group divisions; negotiations for upward caste mobility; contestations and dissent of lower castes; power and social stratification; functioning of caste panchayats; gender division of craft labour; myths, beliefs and religiosity attributed to craft usages; social and ritual traditions; and contemporary craft traditions. Rich in archival and diverse sources, including oral traditions, paintings, and findings from extensive field visits and interactions with crafts persons, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of crafts, medieval Indian history, social history, sociology and social anthropology, economic history, cultural history, science and technology studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest government and non-governmental organisations, textile historians, craft and design specialists, contemporary craft industrial sector, and museums.
Artisans in the North Carolina Backcountry
Author: Johanna Miller Lewis
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813161614
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
During the quarter of a century before the thirteen colonies became a nation, the northwest quadrant of North Carolina had just begun to attract permanent settlers. This seemingly primitive area may not appear to be a likely source for attractive pottery and ornate silverware and furniture, much less for an audience to appreciate these refinements. Yet such crafts were not confined to urban centers, and artisans, like other colonists, were striving to create better lives for themselves as well as to practice their trades. As Johanna Miller Lewis shows in this pivotal study of colonial history and material culture, the growing population of Rowan County required not only blacksmiths, saddlers, and tanners but also a great variety of skilled craftsmen to help raise the standard of living. Rowan County's rapid expansion was in part the result of the planned settlements of the Moravian Church. Because the Moravians maintained careful records, historians have previously credited church artisans with greater skill and more economic awareness than non-church craftsmen. Through meticulous attention to court and private records, deeds, wills, and other sources, Lewis reveals the Moravian failure to keep up with the pace of development occurring elsewhere in the county. Challenging the traditional belief that southern backcountry life was primitive, Lewis shows that many artisans held public office and wielded power in the public sphere. She also examines women weavers and spinsters as an integral part of the population. All artisans—Moravian and non-Moravian, male and female—helped the local market economy expand to include coastal and trans-Atlantic trade. Lewis's book contributes meaningfully to the debate over self-sufficiency and capitalism in rural America.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813161614
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
During the quarter of a century before the thirteen colonies became a nation, the northwest quadrant of North Carolina had just begun to attract permanent settlers. This seemingly primitive area may not appear to be a likely source for attractive pottery and ornate silverware and furniture, much less for an audience to appreciate these refinements. Yet such crafts were not confined to urban centers, and artisans, like other colonists, were striving to create better lives for themselves as well as to practice their trades. As Johanna Miller Lewis shows in this pivotal study of colonial history and material culture, the growing population of Rowan County required not only blacksmiths, saddlers, and tanners but also a great variety of skilled craftsmen to help raise the standard of living. Rowan County's rapid expansion was in part the result of the planned settlements of the Moravian Church. Because the Moravians maintained careful records, historians have previously credited church artisans with greater skill and more economic awareness than non-church craftsmen. Through meticulous attention to court and private records, deeds, wills, and other sources, Lewis reveals the Moravian failure to keep up with the pace of development occurring elsewhere in the county. Challenging the traditional belief that southern backcountry life was primitive, Lewis shows that many artisans held public office and wielded power in the public sphere. She also examines women weavers and spinsters as an integral part of the population. All artisans—Moravian and non-Moravian, male and female—helped the local market economy expand to include coastal and trans-Atlantic trade. Lewis's book contributes meaningfully to the debate over self-sufficiency and capitalism in rural America.
The Colonial Woodworker
Author: Laura Sullivan
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 150260485X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The crafts of colonial woodworkers could be found nearly everywhere, from homes and businesses to ships and battlefields. Learn about the tools and training of these busy craftsmen.
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 150260485X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The crafts of colonial woodworkers could be found nearly everywhere, from homes and businesses to ships and battlefields. Learn about the tools and training of these busy craftsmen.
The Cabinetmaker's Account
Author: Jay Robert Stiefel
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN: 9780871692719
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"English joiner John Head (1688–1754) immigrated to Philadelphia in 1717 and became one of its most successful artisans and merchants. However, his prominence was lost to history until the author’s discovery of his account book at the Library of the American Philosophical Society. A find of great historical importance, Head’s account book is the earliest and most complete to have survived from any cabinetmaker working in British North America or in Great Britain. It chronicles the commerce, crafts, and lifestyles of early Philadelphia’s entire community: its shopkeeping, cabinetmaking, chairmaking, clockmaking, glazing, metalworking, needleworking, property development, agriculture, botany, livestock, transport, foodstuffs, drink, hardware, fabrics, furnishings, household wares, clothing, building materials, and export trade. Jay Robert Stiefel, historian of Colonial Philadelphia society and its material culture, presents the definitive interpretation of the John Head account book and introduces many other discoveries. The culmination of nearly 20 years of research, this new volume serves as an essential reference work on 18th-century Philadelphia, its furniture and material culture, as well as an intimate and detailed social history of the interactions among that era’s most talented artisans and successful merchants. Profusely illustrated and in large format, the book includes a foreword from furniture historian Adam Bowett and an introduction by historian Patrick Spero, Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society Library" -- Provided by publisher.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN: 9780871692719
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"English joiner John Head (1688–1754) immigrated to Philadelphia in 1717 and became one of its most successful artisans and merchants. However, his prominence was lost to history until the author’s discovery of his account book at the Library of the American Philosophical Society. A find of great historical importance, Head’s account book is the earliest and most complete to have survived from any cabinetmaker working in British North America or in Great Britain. It chronicles the commerce, crafts, and lifestyles of early Philadelphia’s entire community: its shopkeeping, cabinetmaking, chairmaking, clockmaking, glazing, metalworking, needleworking, property development, agriculture, botany, livestock, transport, foodstuffs, drink, hardware, fabrics, furnishings, household wares, clothing, building materials, and export trade. Jay Robert Stiefel, historian of Colonial Philadelphia society and its material culture, presents the definitive interpretation of the John Head account book and introduces many other discoveries. The culmination of nearly 20 years of research, this new volume serves as an essential reference work on 18th-century Philadelphia, its furniture and material culture, as well as an intimate and detailed social history of the interactions among that era’s most talented artisans and successful merchants. Profusely illustrated and in large format, the book includes a foreword from furniture historian Adam Bowett and an introduction by historian Patrick Spero, Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society Library" -- Provided by publisher.
The Hatters
Author: Leonard Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Discusses the role of the hatter in Colonial society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Discusses the role of the hatter in Colonial society.
Colonial Crafts
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: New York ; Niagara Falls, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
ISBN: 9780865054905
Category : Artisans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Young readers will visit the workshops of the wheelwright, cooper, founder, shoemaker, milliner, gunsmith, and many more
Publisher: New York ; Niagara Falls, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
ISBN: 9780865054905
Category : Artisans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Young readers will visit the workshops of the wheelwright, cooper, founder, shoemaker, milliner, gunsmith, and many more