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Threads Of Life
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Author : Clare Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Sceptre
Release Date : 2019-02-07
Threads Of Life written by Clare Hunter and has been published by Sceptre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** **WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH** 'An astonishing feat' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times 'An inspiring and moving sideways look at history' Eithne Farry, Sunday Express An eloquent blend of history and memoir, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we all have to tell our story. From political propaganda in medieval France to secret treason in Tudor England, from the mothers of the desaparecidos in Argentina to First World War soldiers with PTSD, from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland, Threads of Life is a global chronicle of identity, protest, memory and politics. Banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator Clare Hunter chronicles the stories of the men and women, over centuries and across continents, who have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. 'A beautifully considered book... Clare Hunter has managed to mix the personal with the political with moving results.' TRACY CHEVALIER
Threads Of Life
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Author : Clare Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2019-10-15
Threads Of Life written by Clare Hunter and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with History categories.
This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.
Threads Of Life
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Author : Clare Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-02-07
Threads Of Life written by Clare Hunter and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** **WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH** 'An astonishing feat' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times 'An inspiring and moving sideways look at history' Eithne Farry, Sunday Express An eloquent blend of history and memoir, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we all have to tell our story. From political propaganda in medieval France to secret treason in Tudor England, from the mothers of the desaparecidos in Argentina to First World War soldiers with PTSD, from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland, Threads of Life is a global chronicle of identity, protest, memory and politics. Banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator Clare Hunter chronicles the stories of the men and women, over centuries and across continents, who have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. 'A beautifully considered book... Clare Hunter has managed to mix the personal with the political with moving results.' TRACY CHEVALIER
Weaving The Threads Of Life
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Author : Renaat Devisch
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993-11
Weaving The Threads Of Life written by Renaat Devisch and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-11 with Family & Relationships categories.
For the Yaka of Southwestern Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of reweaving the damaged strands. In Weaving the Threads of Life Rene Devisch offers an extended analysis of the Khita cult, which leads to an original account of the workings of ritual healing. Drawing on many years among urban and rural Yaka, Devisch analyzes their understanding of existence as a fabric of firmly but delicately interwoven threads of nature, body, and society. The fertility healing ritual calls forth forces, feelings, and meanings that allow women to rejoin themselves to the complex pattern of social and cosmic life. These elaborate rites—whether simulating mortal agony and rebirth, gestation and delivery, or flowering and decay; using music and dance, steambath or massage, dream messages or scarification—are not based on symbols of traditional beliefs. Rather, Devisch shows, the rites themselves generate forces and meaning, creating and shaping the cosmic, physical, and social world of their participants. In contrast to current theoretical methods such as postmodern or symbolical interpretation, Devisch's praxiological approach is unique in also using phenomenological insights into the intent and results of anthropological fieldwork. This innovative work will have ramifications beyond African studies, reaching into the anthropology of medicine and the body, comparative religious history, and women's studies.
Threads Of Life
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Author : Richard Freadman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001-02
Threads Of Life written by Richard Freadman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02 with Education categories.
Many autobiographers share profound questions about human life with their readers—questions like: To what extent was my life imposed on me? To what extent did I bring it about through particular choices and actions, through the activity of my own will? Indeed, the issue of the will is central to autobiographical writing, and some of the greatest autobiographies give extended consideration to the will—its nature; its powers; its limitations; the forms of freedom, constraint, and expression it finds in various cultures; its role in particular human lives. In this new study, unprecedented in subject and scope, Richard Freadman offers the first sustained account of how changing theological, philosophical, and psychological accounts of the human will have been reflected in the writing of autobiography, and of how autobiography in its turn has helped shape various understandings of the will. Early chapters trace narrative representations of the will from antiquity (the Greeks and Augustine) to postmodernism (Derrida and Barthes), with particular emphasis on late modernity's culture of the will. Later chapters then present detailed and powerfully original readings of autobiographical texts by Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, B. F. Skinner, Ernest Hemingway, Simone de Beauvoir, Arthur Koestler, Stephen Spender, and Diana Trilling. Freadman's interdisciplinary approach to autobiography and the will includes a theoretical defense of the view that autobiographers are, in varying degrees, agents in their own texts. Threads of Life argues that late modernity has inherited deeply conflicted attitudes to the will. Freadman suggests that these attitudes, now deeply embedded in contemporary cultural discourse, need reexamining. In this, he contends, 'reflective autobiography' has an important part to play.
Threads
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Author : Julia Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-04-02
Threads written by Julia Blackburn and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017 John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. For the rest of his life he kept moving in and out of what was described as ‘a stuporous state’. In 1923 he started making paintings of the sea and boats and the coastline seen from the sea, and later, when he was too ill to stand and paint, he turned to embroidery, which he could do lying in bed. His embroideries were also the sea, including his masterpiece, a huge embroidery of The Evacuation of Dunkirk. Very few facts about Craske are known, and only a few scattered photographs have survived, together with accounts by the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner and her lover Valentine Ackland, who discovered Craske in 1937. So - as with all her books - Julia Blackburn’s account of his life is far from a conventional biography. Instead it is a quest which takes her in many strange directions - to fishermen’s cottages in Sheringham, a grand hotel fallen on hard times in Great Yarmouth and to the isolated Watch House far out in the Blakeney estuary; to Cromer and the bizarre story of Einstein’s stay there, guarded by dashing young women in jodhpurs with shotguns. Threads is a book about life and death and the strange country between the two where John Craske seemed to live. It is also about life after death, as Julia’s beloved husband Herman, a vivid presence in the early pages of the book, dies before it is finished. In a gentle meditation on art and fame; on the nature of time and the fact of mortality; and illustrated with Craske’s paintings and embroideries, Threads shows, yet again, that Julia Blackburn can conjure a magic that is spellbinding and utterly her own.
Threads From The Web Of Life
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Author : Stephen Daubert
language : en
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Release Date : 2006
Threads From The Web Of Life written by Stephen Daubert and has been published by Vanderbilt University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Nature categories.
Creative, science-grounded stories about nature for the curious and imaginative of all ages.
Wear And Tear
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Author : Tracy Tynan
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-07-12
Wear And Tear written by Tracy Tynan and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"The memoirs of a celebrity costume designer describe her upbringing in the fashionable celebrity circles of her literary parents, her family's artistic but traumatizing approaches to shopping and how the fashion-savvy perspectives of her early years shaped her relationships and career, "--NoveList.
Threads Of Light
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Author : Patrick Dowdey
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 1999
Threads Of Light written by Patrick Dowdey and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art categories.
Collaboration between the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute and Robert Glenn Ketchum. Photographs by Ketchum were recreated as pieces of embroidery by SERI.
Threads Of Identity
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Author : Widad Kawar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Threads Of Identity written by Widad Kawar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Clothing and dress categories.
A history of Palestinian women of the 20th century told through aspects of popular heritage, focusing on traditional dresses but also including textiles and rug weaving, rural and urban customs, cuisine, and festivities.