Author: Kathleen Curtis Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The story of Irish Linen is a story of the Irish men and women who made Irish linen a global product and an international brand. It is also a story of innovation and opportunity. Irish linen has served its makers as sailcloth of incredible strength and durability for world exploration and trade; it has functioned as watertight containers for farmers and firemen; it has soothed the brows of royalty and absorbed the sweat of the working class. As outerwear and underwear, linen has clothed men, women, and children from birth to death- the rich and powerful, poor and pitiful alike. Into this cultural history, the author weaves personal narratives and the words and songs of individual spinners, factory workers, and outworkers. Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, each chapter tells of art, social and economic history, design, fashion, architecture, technology, and cultural traditions that celebrate the linen industry. -- from Book Jacket.
Irish People, Irish Linen
Author: Kathleen Curtis Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The story of Irish Linen is a story of the Irish men and women who made Irish linen a global product and an international brand. It is also a story of innovation and opportunity. Irish linen has served its makers as sailcloth of incredible strength and durability for world exploration and trade; it has functioned as watertight containers for farmers and firemen; it has soothed the brows of royalty and absorbed the sweat of the working class. As outerwear and underwear, linen has clothed men, women, and children from birth to death- the rich and powerful, poor and pitiful alike. Into this cultural history, the author weaves personal narratives and the words and songs of individual spinners, factory workers, and outworkers. Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, each chapter tells of art, social and economic history, design, fashion, architecture, technology, and cultural traditions that celebrate the linen industry. -- from Book Jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The story of Irish Linen is a story of the Irish men and women who made Irish linen a global product and an international brand. It is also a story of innovation and opportunity. Irish linen has served its makers as sailcloth of incredible strength and durability for world exploration and trade; it has functioned as watertight containers for farmers and firemen; it has soothed the brows of royalty and absorbed the sweat of the working class. As outerwear and underwear, linen has clothed men, women, and children from birth to death- the rich and powerful, poor and pitiful alike. Into this cultural history, the author weaves personal narratives and the words and songs of individual spinners, factory workers, and outworkers. Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, each chapter tells of art, social and economic history, design, fashion, architecture, technology, and cultural traditions that celebrate the linen industry. -- from Book Jacket.
Irish Linen - The Fabric of Elegance
Author: Anon
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473380367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A history of one of the most luxurious fabrics of the late 19th century. Perfect for any fan of textiles.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473380367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A history of one of the most luxurious fabrics of the late 19th century. Perfect for any fan of textiles.
The Irish Linen Trade Hand-book and Directory
Author: F. W. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Linen
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Linen
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783
Author: Thomas M. Truxes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526166
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book assaults well-established myths depicting Ireland's transatlantic trade as subordinate to British interests.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526166
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book assaults well-established myths depicting Ireland's transatlantic trade as subordinate to British interests.
Irish Materialisms
Author: Colleen Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019889483X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the Irish peasantry's subversive entanglement with nonhuman materiality. Each of the chapters engages a focused case study of an everyday object in colonial Ireland (coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, and pigs) to examine how each object's unique materiality contributed to the colonial ideology of British paternalism and afforded creative Irish expression. The main argument of Irish Materialisms is its methodology: of reading literature through the agency of materiality and nonhuman narrative in order to gain a more egalitarian and varied understanding of colonial experience. Irish Materialisms proves that new materialism holds powerful postcolonial potential. Through an intimate understanding of the materiality Irish peasants handled on a daily basis, this book presents a new portrait of Irish character that reflects greater empowerment, resistance, and expression in the oppressed Irish than has been previously recognized.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019889483X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is the first book to apply recent trends in new materialist criticism to Ireland. It radically shifts familiar colonial stereotypes of the feminized, racialized cottier according to the Irish peasantry's subversive entanglement with nonhuman materiality. Each of the chapters engages a focused case study of an everyday object in colonial Ireland (coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, and pigs) to examine how each object's unique materiality contributed to the colonial ideology of British paternalism and afforded creative Irish expression. The main argument of Irish Materialisms is its methodology: of reading literature through the agency of materiality and nonhuman narrative in order to gain a more egalitarian and varied understanding of colonial experience. Irish Materialisms proves that new materialism holds powerful postcolonial potential. Through an intimate understanding of the materiality Irish peasants handled on a daily basis, this book presents a new portrait of Irish character that reflects greater empowerment, resistance, and expression in the oppressed Irish than has been previously recognized.
The Rise of the Irish Linen Industry
Author: Conrad Gill
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon
ISBN:
Category : Bedding and Linens
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon
ISBN:
Category : Bedding and Linens
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Irish Linen
Author: Irish Linen Merchants' Association, New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Linen
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Linen
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Irish Homestead
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Ireland and the Industrial Revolution
Author: Andy Bielenberg
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134061013
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Chapter Introduction -- part Part I The linen industry: The lead sector in the industrialisation of Ulster -- chapter 1 The evolution of the linen industry prior to mechanisation, 1700-1825 -- chapter 2 Transition: the first generation of wet spinners, 1825-50 -- chapter 3 The high watermark of the Ulster linen industry, 1850-1914 -- part Part II Southern comfort: The food, drink and tobacco industries -- chapter 4 The food-processing industries -- chapter 5 Drink and tobacco -- part PART III Missing links? Engineering, shipbuilding and the dearth of mineral wealth -- chapter 6 The mining and engineering industries -- chapter 7 Shipbuilding: An exception to the rule? -- part Part IV Construction and the Irish economy -- chapter 8 The timber trade and the Irish building industry.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134061013
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Chapter Introduction -- part Part I The linen industry: The lead sector in the industrialisation of Ulster -- chapter 1 The evolution of the linen industry prior to mechanisation, 1700-1825 -- chapter 2 Transition: the first generation of wet spinners, 1825-50 -- chapter 3 The high watermark of the Ulster linen industry, 1850-1914 -- part Part II Southern comfort: The food, drink and tobacco industries -- chapter 4 The food-processing industries -- chapter 5 Drink and tobacco -- part PART III Missing links? Engineering, shipbuilding and the dearth of mineral wealth -- chapter 6 The mining and engineering industries -- chapter 7 Shipbuilding: An exception to the rule? -- part Part IV Construction and the Irish economy -- chapter 8 The timber trade and the Irish building industry.