Threading Time
Subtitle: A Cultural History of Threadwork
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780875652412
Subjects: Cultural studies; Needlecraft art (eg lace, quilts, etc as art objects); Needlework & fabric crafts; Needlework; Art Needlework; Crafts & Hobbies; Crafts / Hobbies; Hobbies/Crafts; Needlework - General; Fancy work; History
First sentence: Two seminude figures, standing under as apple tree encircled by a serpent, introduced visitors to an exhibition of seventeenth-century English needlework at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Description: "This is a book about both art and people. The author draws on stories about threadworkers from ancient literature - the Bible, the Iliad, and the Odyssey - and from more recent works by such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theodore Dreiser, Margaret Mitchell, and John Updike.

Works by two Germans - play-wright Gerhart Hauptmann and artist Kathe Kollwitz - and English poets such as Robert Burns and William Blake illustrate the sweatshops characteristic of textile and garment production for centuries, a pattern that persists today in developing countries.".

"Artistic images from classic sculpture, a window from the Cathedral at Chartres, paintings by such masters as Vermeer and Monet, twentieth-century quilts, and works by contemporary painters such as Elien Day Hale and Margaret Schillie further illustrate the significence of thread-work.".

"As an original view of threadwork and those who create it written from a broad chronological perspective, Threading Time reaches beyond textile artisans and collectors to present a study significant to readers of literature, women's history, and cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.