Author: Mrs. Godfrey Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Gleanings from an Old Portfolio: 1785-1799
Author: Mrs. Godfrey Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Gleanings from an Old Portfolio V2, 1785-1799
Author: Louisa Stuart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781436859189
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781436859189
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Gleanings from an Old Portfolio
Author: Alice Georgina Caroline Strong Clark
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain
Author: Serena Dyer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501349635
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers. It brings new attention to eighteenth-century craftswomen and men with its focus on the material knowledge possessed not only by professional artisans and amateur makers, but also by skilled consumers. This edited collection gathers together a group of interdisciplinary scholars working in the fields of art history, history, literature, and museum studies to unearth the tactile and tacit knowledge that underpinned fashion, tailoring, and textile production. It invites us into the workshops, drawing rooms, and backrooms of a broad range of creators, and uncovers how production and tacit knowledge extended beyond the factories and machines which dominate industrial histories. This book illuminates, for the first time, the material literacies learnt, enacted, and understood by British producers and consumers. The skills required for sewing, embroidering, and the textile arts were possessed by a large proportion of the British population: men, women and children, professional and amateur alike. Building on previous studies of shoppers and consumption in the period, as well as narratives of manufacture, these essays document the multiplicity of small producers behind Britain's consumer revolution, reshaping our understanding of the dynamics between making and objects, consumption and production. It demonstrates how material knowledge formed an essential part of daily life for eighteenth-century Britons. Craft technique, practice, and production, the contributors show, constituted forms of tactile languages that joined makers together, whether they produced objects for profit or pleasure.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501349635
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers. It brings new attention to eighteenth-century craftswomen and men with its focus on the material knowledge possessed not only by professional artisans and amateur makers, but also by skilled consumers. This edited collection gathers together a group of interdisciplinary scholars working in the fields of art history, history, literature, and museum studies to unearth the tactile and tacit knowledge that underpinned fashion, tailoring, and textile production. It invites us into the workshops, drawing rooms, and backrooms of a broad range of creators, and uncovers how production and tacit knowledge extended beyond the factories and machines which dominate industrial histories. This book illuminates, for the first time, the material literacies learnt, enacted, and understood by British producers and consumers. The skills required for sewing, embroidering, and the textile arts were possessed by a large proportion of the British population: men, women and children, professional and amateur alike. Building on previous studies of shoppers and consumption in the period, as well as narratives of manufacture, these essays document the multiplicity of small producers behind Britain's consumer revolution, reshaping our understanding of the dynamics between making and objects, consumption and production. It demonstrates how material knowledge formed an essential part of daily life for eighteenth-century Britons. Craft technique, practice, and production, the contributors show, constituted forms of tactile languages that joined makers together, whether they produced objects for profit or pleasure.
Small Things in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Chloe Wigston Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108834450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Playful, useful, decorative, revolutionary: small things possess a rich array of meanings, from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108834450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Playful, useful, decorative, revolutionary: small things possess a rich array of meanings, from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
Material Lives
Author: Serena Dyer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350127000
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century production and consumption. Genteel women's making has traditionally been seen as decorative, trivial and superficial. Yet their material archives, forged through fabric samples, watercolours, dressed prints and dolls' garments, reveal how women used the material culture of making to record and navigate their lives. Material Lives positions women as 'makers' in a consumer society. Through fragments of fabric and paper, Dyer explores an innovative way of accessing the lives of otherwise obscured women. For researchers and students of material culture, dress history, consumption, gender and women's history, it offers a rich resource to illuminate the power of needles, paintbrushes and scissors.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350127000
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century production and consumption. Genteel women's making has traditionally been seen as decorative, trivial and superficial. Yet their material archives, forged through fabric samples, watercolours, dressed prints and dolls' garments, reveal how women used the material culture of making to record and navigate their lives. Material Lives positions women as 'makers' in a consumer society. Through fragments of fabric and paper, Dyer explores an innovative way of accessing the lives of otherwise obscured women. For researchers and students of material culture, dress history, consumption, gender and women's history, it offers a rich resource to illuminate the power of needles, paintbrushes and scissors.
Labour of the Stitch
Author: Serena Dyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009188712
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009188712
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress.
Concert Life in London from Mozart to Haydn
Author: Simon McVeigh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521028906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book is a detailed investigation of a lively and innovative period in London's cultural life.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521028906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This book is a detailed investigation of a lively and innovative period in London's cultural life.
The Cambridge bibliography of English literature, edited by F.W. ...
Author: F.W. Bateson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
The Age of Undress
Author: Amelia Rauser
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300241208
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Exploring the popularity and meaning of neoclassical dress in the 1790s, this book traces its evolution in Europe and relationship to other artistic media.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300241208
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Exploring the popularity and meaning of neoclassical dress in the 1790s, this book traces its evolution in Europe and relationship to other artistic media.