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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"needlework"”.
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The Creativity Loophole: Needlework, Social Conventions, and the Permissibility of Creative Expression for Early American Women
… thesis investigates creative expression through needlework by wealthy or elite women in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century, focusing on women in the United States South. This inquiry begins in broad terms and proceeds to the close examination of one particular needlework sampler held in …
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'Remember me': Domestic textiles in Britain, 1790-1890: Memory, identity and emotion
… command ‘Remember Me’ into their domestic needlework production. The thesis ‘“Remember Me”. Domestic Textiles in Britain 1790–1890: Memory, Identity and Emotion’ presents items of domestic needlework as objects of selfhood, akin to life writing. These often-overlooked objects reveal how …
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Mend: a personal exploration of healing
… though marked by many separations, the love for needlework connects us again and provides a meeting place that bridges the divide caused by absences in the past and in the present. Divided into two columns, 'academic' and 'personal', in subtitled paragraphs elaborate and reflect on 'memory', …
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The Arts and Crafts movement: exchanges between Greece and Britain (1876-1930)
… leading figures in the Royal Hellenic School of Needlework and Laces at the end of the nineteenth century. This was one of a number of craft workshops set up in Athens to provide training and to revive folk crafts in the spirit of the amateur side of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
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Women's handbags in the United States, 1855-1910
… references focusing on women, fashion, and needlework were examined. Following the content analysis, seriation was used to organize the data for analysis and interpretation. From the histograms provided by the seriation, the Authentication instrument was developed. ln the first part, the …
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Embroidery, business enterprise and philanthropic ventures in Nineteenth Century Britain
<p>In the nineteenth century a new form of needlework 'Art Embroidery' fuelled entrepreneurial ventures. The significance of these ventures will be explored and the contribution made by women employed in this industry, investigating their prevalent working practices and relating this to our …
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'Hidden stitches, silent chords : a play in monologues' and 'Exegesis : a stitching from the inside out (including an audio CD featuring my original song, None Can Name)
… by my only tangible connection with them, their needlework. Hidden Stitches, Silent Chords is aimed at addressing, in some measure, the silences around their lives and their omissions from familial, historical documentation. Although the playscript could be adapted to suit performance by an …
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Elite women's household management: Yorkshire, 1680-1810
… feminine accomplishment in the 'delicate' art of needlework or the knowledge of pickling and preserving. In her role as household manager, this space was more heavily imbued with command, authority and organisational skill.
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Women, tactility and consumption : middle-class female sensory participation in Victorian shopping environments
… female activities within the home, namely needlework, and how these affected the development of the sensorium. Following on from this, the study analyses how those habits of touch were used when shopping. This involved assessments of fabric quality, the marketing of ‘hygienic’ clothing on …
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Art, gender ideology and Afrikaner nationalism : a history of the Voortrekker Monument tapestries
… tapestries, investigating instead the status of needlework. I argue that the gender ideology embedded in the production of the tapestries is parallel1ed in the historically sanctioned separation of 'art' from 'craft'. Just as 'craft' has been marginalised in relation to 'art', so the Voortrekker …
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May Morris and the Making of Art, c. 1880 - 1938
… and reveals how Morris and her peers understood needlework within narratives of art’s prehistoric origins and its contemporary forms at the end of the nineteenth century. Chapter three focuses on the artist’s ambition and stylistic eclecticism in her design practice, and demonstrates the ways in …
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An investigation of educational services perceived as needed by older persons which may be provided by the community college
… Plants, Tennis, Bowling, Health and Nutrition, Needlework, Legal Information, English Skills, and Painting and Sketching. There are two major hindrances in delivering information to the elderly about the college: visibility and flow of information. Many older adults are isolated. More aggressive …