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The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and Beyond
Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteenth-century American South typically featured colored wool and cotton threads woven into striking geometric patterns. Although they are not as well known as other textiles and domestic objects, overshot coverlets were, and continue to be, significant examples of material culture that require tremendous skill and creativity to produce. They also express currents of conformity and dissent.In addition to being pleasing to the eye and hand, overshot coverlets have advanced a variety of social and politic…
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Weitere Autoren: Smith, Jessica R.
- ISBN: 978-0-8203-5772-0
- EAN: 9780820357720
- Produktnummer: 32771728
- Verlag: Templar
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 14'875 KB
- Abbildungen: 38 b&w and 16 color images
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Susan Falls and Jessica R. Smith
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