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HISTORICAL TEXT ON ANTIQUE
NEEDLEWORK
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The Age of
Homespun: Objects and Stories in the
Creation of an American Myth
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
In 1851, when theologian Horace
Bushnell stood on the village green
in Litchfield, CT, and looked back
lovingly on the Age of Homespun he
was expressing a perennial American
nostalgia for the "good old days",
when clothing and other necessities
were mostly made at home by family
labor. Historian Ulrich has not set
out to deflate the sentimentality
that accompanies Bushnell's vision,
but rather to trace its genesis and
understand how it has weathered the
test of time. Under the tutelage of
various museum curators, Ulrich
studies the artifacts of a material
culture, to understand the people
who used them. From 14 artifacts of
early American life (baskets,
spinning wheels, and especially
needlework) Ulrich uncovers details
about their makers and users and the
communities they built. Each chapter
reads like a well-crafted detective
story, and will appeal immensely to
historical sleuths and us "textilians"!
Hardbound, 165 illustrations, 480
pages, $35.00
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LADIES
OF THE GRAND TOUR: British Women in
Pursuit
 of
Enlightenment and Adventure in
Eighteenth-Century Europe,
By
Brian Dolan
According to the 1747 publication
The Art of Governing a Wife women in
Georgian England were to "lay
up and save, look to the house; talk
to few and take of all within."
However, some daring women broke
from these directives and took up
the distinctly male privilege of
traveling to the Continent to
develop mind, spirit, and body. The
author leads us into the hearts and
minds of the ladies through their
stories, thoughts, and court gossip,
recorded in journals, letters and
diaries. A fascinating account,
brilliantly researched, of women's
lives and travels in the 18th
century. Hardbound, 338 pages,
$27.00
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 THIS HAVE I
DONE:
SAMPLERS AND EMBROIDERIES FROM CHARLESTON AND THE LOWCOUNTRY (text by Jan Hiester
and Kathleen Staples)The results of new research on a group of samplers and embroideries connected to Charleston, South Carolina, worked between 1728 and 1840, are now organized in a catalog produced in conjunction with an exhibition of the embroideries at The Charleston Museum. The text examines the relationship between local sampler designs and the embroidery traditions of various groups who immigrated to South Carolina, among them English, French Huguenot, Dutch and German settlers. 55 pages, 44 color illustrations, $19.95
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 SAMPLERS: Town and Country: an exhibition of
samplers at Witney Antiques in
Witney, Oxfordshire, England,
48 pages, $32.00
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PLAIN
AND FANCY:
American Women and their
Needlework 1650-1850
by Susan Burrows Swan. 238
pages, $29.95
SAMPLERS:
All Creatures Great and Small,
an exhibition catalogue
from Witney Antiques
focusing on early samplers with animal motifs.
48 pages, limited
edition $24.00
MERKLAPPEN UIT DE LAGE LANDEN
by Joke Visser. A study of Dutch
samplers,
with text in Dutch.
176 pages, $35.00
 SAMPLERS
by Susan
Mayor and
Diana Fowle.
40 full
color
plates
of early
samplers.
86
pages,
$15.00
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THE FINE ART OF TEXTILES: The Collections of the Philadelphia
Museum of Art 
by Dilys E. Blum
Nearly
four hundred textiles from East and
West are reproduced in full color in
this handbook of the Philadelphia
Museum of Art's encyclopedic
collections, which cover a broad range
of geographic areas, periods, and
techniques. Europe and the
Americas are represented by woven
textiles, printed textiles,
embroidery, lace, samplers, quilts,
and coverlets. Each chapter is
introduced by a brief history of that
particular aspect of the museum's
collections, placing it within the
context of textile scholarship and
collecting in the United States and
Europe. Softbound, full
color,
208 pages, $35.00
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