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Martha’s Mob Cap? A Milliner’s Hand-Sewn Inquiry into Eighteenth-Century Caps ca.1770 to 1800
DownloadSpring 2017
This thesis seeks to answer the question: “how can the act of hand sewing enable us to contextualize the cap Martha Washington wears in The Washington Family Portrait?” The project reconsiders a style of cap Mrs. Washington wears in the Edward Savage portrait The Washington Family in the...
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Stitching Generations Together: The Isadore and Mary Rose Charlo Family Exhibit and Doll Sewing Workshops
Download2023-12-01
Bourgeois, Rebecca L., Gelderman, Karen, Goldberg, Elizabeth (Libby)
This booklet is the second volume of the Tłı̨chǫ Cultural Commons Research Series which is centered around the work being done surrounding the development of the Tłı̨chǫ archive and museum. Here we detail the first installation of the rotating Tłı̨chǫ Family Exhibit, curated by Elizabeth...
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The fruits of nimble finger: garment construction and the working lives of eighteenth-century English needlewomen
DownloadFall 2010
The research objective of this thesis is to re-examine women‟s labour in the eighteenth-century English sewing trades. Several aspects women‟s working lives in the sewing trades are explored in three sections. The first section examines diversity within the sewing trades, employment...
