Textile History Forum Proceedings

2007 Textile History Forum Proceedings Now Available!

The new issue of the Textile History Forum Proceedings is now available.  The cost for one issue is $25.00 plus $2.50 shipping and handling. 

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Contents, with a foreword by Rabbit Goody:

Adams, Anne. "Done Without Spectacles: Three Generations of a Quaker Family and Their Textiles."

Baldia, Christel. "The Use of Colorants in Hopewell Textiles from the Seip Mound Group in Southern Ohio."

Dean, Phyllis. "The Rocker Beater Loom: An Early Form of Standing Beater Loom."

Heffernan, Sandy. "Peasant? The Transformation of an Aesthetic."

Koch-Esterline, Caryn Elizabeth. "Mary Alexander: Fashioning Colonial New York."

Laube, Gary. "The New England Pine Tree Flag."

Lovett, John. "Research and Restoration of a 19th-century Textile Machinery Collection."

McClintock, Deb. "The Lao Khao Tam Huuk--One of the Foundations of Lao Pattern Weaving."

Robare, Mary. "Quaker Networks Revealed in Quilts."

Sider, Sandra. "Origins of American Art Quilts: Politics and Technology."

Sweeney, Melodie. "The Flowering of the Rose Blanket."

Walter, Ron. "Decorated Hetchels." 

With Works in Progress by Stan Gorski and Martha Graham.

 

Also Available: Textile History Forum Proceedings 2003

Contents:

Foreword by Rabbit Goody

"Knitted Handwear: Preserving Cultural Identity  in Hand-Stitches" by Jay Ruckel

"Advertising and Knitting: Cranking Out Socks on Contract at Home, 1900-1926" by Richard Candee

"Whose Corset Is It?" by Nancy Boulin

"Exploring the Textures of Prehistoric Textiles: The Replication of Footwear and Bags" by Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff

"To Market To Market: The Trials and Tribulations of Textile Adaptation--Highland Guatemalan Maya Women Through the Centuries" by Amber H. J. Judge

"Homespun Myths: Middleclass Values Meet the Marketplace" by Judith Rygiel

"The Ithaca Carpet Factory: Fancy Weaving, Home Production, and Superior Design" by Jill Maney and Jonathan Maney

"Regional Preferences in Fancy Coverlet Designs: an Ohio Study" by Viginia Gunn

"The Nineteenth-Century Diaries of Samantha and Zeloda Barrett, Weavers and Spinners in Nineteenth-Century Hartford, Connecticut" by Sharon Usba Steinberg

"Airplanes, Balloons, and Cartridge Bags: A Few Fabrics of World War I" by Katharine Dirks

"The Value of Staying in Touch: A Researcher's Use of Public History" by Michael J.Smith