Shaker cut-and-fold booklets
Subtitle: unfolding the gift drawings of Emily Babcock
By: by Sandra A. Soule
Series: Shaker studies -- no. 8; Shaker studies -- no. 8.
Publisher: Richard W Couper Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Clinton, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9781937370107
Subjects: Shaker drawing; History; Spirit writings; Spirit art; Paper folding (Graphic design); Shaker women; Biography; Shakers
Description: "Stark images and inspired messages appear in Shaker cut-and-fold booklets, one of the more unusual forms of gift drawings created in the early 1840s during the Shakers' internal revival known as Mother's Work. This study unfolds some of the puzzling aspects of these heavenly communications. The Shaker concept of union is embodied in the mysteriously decorated, interleaved sheets bearing prophetic spiritual messages. New findings about the visionary activities of Emily Babcock point to her as the instrument for these uniquely constructed gift drawings."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Unfolding the Shakers' inspired cut-and-fold booklets; title: Appendix 1. Transcription of the booklet, "Power" ; Transcription of the booklet, "Spirit" ; Transcription of NYPL 102, one sheet of the booklet "Truth"; title: Appendix 2. Unfolding the pages of the "Spirit" and "Power" booklets.