Needlework Through History: An Encyclopedia - Rilegato

Leslie, Catherine Amoroso

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ISBN 10: 0313335486 ISBN 13: 9780313335488

Casa editrice: Greenwood Pub Group, 2007

Riassunto

Explores the history of needlework by providing alphabetically arranged entries about techniques, patterns, and styles used around the world and their changes with time.

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Product Description:

Needlework serves functional purposes, such as providing warmth, but has also communicated individual and social identity, spiritual beliefs, and aesthetic ideals throughout time and geography. Needlework traditions are often associated with rituals and celebrations of life events. Often-overlooked by historians, practicing needlework and creating needlework objects provides insights to the history of everyday life. Needlework techniques traveled with merchants and explorers, creating a legacy of cross-cultural exchange. Some techniques are virtually universal and others are limited to a small geographical area. Settlers brought traditions which were sometimes re-invented as indigenous arts. This volume of approximately 75 entries is a comprehensive resource on techniques and cultural traditions for students, information professionals, and collectors.

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• Editore: Greenwood Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0313335486
• ISBN 13: 9780313335488
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 236