ISBN:
9781501349614
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 309 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Material culture of art and design
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4/6094209033
Keywords:
Geschichte 1700-1800
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Decorative arts / bicssc
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Material culture / England / History / 18th century
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Textile crafts / England / History / 18th century
;
Needleworkers / England / History / 18th century
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Consumers / England / History / 18th century
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Consumption (Economics) / England / History / 18th century
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Textilhandwerk
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Textilkunst
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Großbritannien
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Konferenzschrift 2017
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Großbritannien
;
Textilkunst
;
Textilhandwerk
;
Geschichte 1700-1800
Abstract:
"The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers. It brings new attention to eighteenth-century craftswomen and men with its focus on the material knowledge possessed not only by professional artisans and amateur makers, but also by skilled consumers. This edited collection gathers together a group of interdisciplinary scholars working in the fields of art history, history, literature, and museum studies to unearth the tactile and tacit knowledge that underpinned fashion, tailoring, and textile production. It invites us into the workshops, drawing rooms, and backrooms of a broad range of creators, and uncovers how production and tacit knowledge extended beyond the factories and machines which dominate industrial histories. This book illuminates, for the first time, the material literacies learnt, enacted, and understood by British producers and consumers. The skills required for sewing, embroidering, and the textile arts were possessed by a large proportion of the British population: men, women and children, professional and amateur alike. Building on previous studies of shoppers and consumption in the period, as well as narratives of manufacture, these essays document the multiplicity of small producers behind Britain's consumer revolution, reshaping our understanding of the dynamics between making and objects, consumption and production. It demonstrates how material knowledge formed an essential part of daily life for eighteenth-century Britons. Craft technique, practice, and production, the contributors show, constituted forms of tactile languages that joined makers together, whether they produced objects for profit or pleasure"--
Description / Table of Contents:
'Work'd pockets to my entire satisfaction' : women and the multiple literacies of making / Ariane Fennetaux -- Material literacies of home comfort in Georgian England / Jon Stobart -- Making, measuring and selling in Hampshire : the provincial tailor's accounts of George and Benjamin Ferrey / Sarah Howard -- Learning to craft / Beth Fowkes Tobin. - Mode of access: World Wide Web
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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