Author: Susannah Read
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
ISBN: 9780670505760
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Barbara Burman
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789147514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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From the pleasures of mending to the problems of fast fashion, an intimate look at the creativity, community, and deep meaning sewed into every stitch. Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. The Point of the Needle redresses the balance: this is a book that argues for sewing’s place in our lives. It celebrates not only sewing’s recent resurgence but sewists’ creativity, well-being, and community. Barbara Burman chronicles new voices of people who sew today, by hand or machine, to explore what they sew, what motivates them, what they value, and why they mend things, revealing insights into sewing’s more intimate stories. In our age of superfast fashion with its environmental and social injustices, this eloquent book makes a passionate case for identity, diversity, resilience, and memory—what people create for themselves as they stitch and make.

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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1340

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Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Betty J. Mills
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896721289
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Calico Chronicle is the source book for teachers, students, historians, customers, re-enactors, of history buffs searching for custom history of the Texas frontier and the American West - an area which has had scarce priceless pieces of the past found in excerpts from letters, diaries, oral histories, historic journals, and even police blotters, to compile and account that reveals much about the lifestyles of frontier women.

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 850

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Author: Carl Rollyson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491750170
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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Emily Dickinson exemplified the virtue of self-discipline. She wrote poetry largely for her own pleasure and to exercise and increase her creative talents. Very few of her poems were published during her own lifetime, yet we know that she wrote consistently--perhaps every day--over several decades. Poetry was her way of knowing herself and understanding the world. She could control and express her ideas and emotions through poetry, perhaps the most demanding form of writing. What does it mean to be a disciplined poet? It means writing and rewriting poems until they seem to be as perfect as possible. Dickinson left behind many drafts of her poems--sometimes including alternate wordings, as if to acknowledge that her writing was still seeking perfection. Dickinsons discipline was self-imposed. She met no publishing deadlines. She did not write for a patron who sponsored her creative efforts. She did not expect the world to acknowledge her poetry as soon as it was written. Yet now she is considered one of the greatest poets ever to have written in the English language. She valued the labor and the results of a job well done. Emily Dickinson is a model not only for writers, but for anyone who wishes calmly and determinedly to pursue a goal, even without the prospect of an immediate reward.

Author: Catherine J. Sestay
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
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Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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