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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Fabric and Leather Crafts"”.
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Embroidering and the Body Under Threat: Suffragette Embroidered Cloths Worked in Holloway Prison, 1911-1912
Between 1911 and 1912 hundreds of suffragettes were incarcerated in Holloway Prison for participating in the window breaking campaign. Denied political status, some suffragettes used the hunger strike as a political tool and were forcibly fed. Whilst in prison some of the women hand-embroidered …
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I am a knitter: hand-knitting in a digitally-mediated society
Hand-knitting continues to be a popular past-time for many people. It underwent a resurgence in the latter part of the 1990s, which was around the same time as the development of the World Wide Web. Knitting went on to become more widespread around 2007, alongside the time social media and …
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The Paradox and Contradictions in Cultural Value and Exchange Worth of Anatolian Hand-crafted Wool Felted Textiles
This thesis seeks to explain the development and implementation of a new model, methods and process of practice required for the rejuvenation of hand crafted woolfelted textile making customs and practices of the Anatolian region of Turkey, which mediates tradition in a contemporary context. In …