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.
How Much Do You Know about Irish Linen
Author: Irish Linen Guild
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
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
A Short History of the Irish People
Author: Mary Teresa Hayden
Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Irish Linen
Author: Irish Linen Merchants' Association, N.Y.
Publisher:
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Category : Linen
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Linen
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Irish Linen
Author: Irish Linen Merchants' Association, New York
Publisher:
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Category : Linen
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Linen
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Irish linen: the fabric of elegance
Author: Irish Linen Guild (Belfast).
Publisher:
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Category : Handkerchiefs
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Handkerchiefs
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
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.
Irish Linen
Author: McCrea Daniel F.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Irish and Scottish Linen and Jute Trades Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description