Stitching the self : identity and the needle arts /: identity and the needle arts. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Johanna Amos, Lisa Binkley.
• Editors: Amos, Johanna; Binkley, Lisa
• Contents: List of FiguresList of PlatesList of TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Stitching the self ...Johanna Amos and Lisa BinkleyPart I: Emerging identity: Reconsidering the narratives of the needle1 The identity of an embroidering woman: The needle arts in Brussels, Belgium, 1850-1914Wendy Wiertz2 'Experiments in silk and gold work afterwards to bloom': The embroidering of Jane Burden MorrisJohanna Amos3 Becoming the boss of your knitting: Elizabeth Zimmermann and the emergence of critical knittingM. Lilly Marsh4 'Knitting is the saving of life; Adrian has taken it up too': Needlework, gender and the Bloomsbury group Joseph McBrinnPart II: Elaborating identity: Expressing ideology, crafting community5 Whig's Defeat: Stitching settler culture, politics, and identityLisa Binkley6 'From Prison to Citizenship, ' 1910: The making and display of a suffragist bannerJanice Helland7 Our Lady of the Snows: Settlement, empire, and 'the children of Canada' in the needlework of Mary Seton Watts (1848-1938)Elaine Cheasley PatersonPart III: Recovering Identity: Locating the self through needlework8 'Je me declare Dieu-Mère, Femme Créateur': Johanna Wintsch's needlework at the Swiss psychiatric asylums Burghölzli and Rheinau, 1922-25Sabine Wieber9 Hybrid language: The interstitial stitches of Anna Torma's embroideriesAnne Koval10 Suturing my soul: In pursuit of the Broderie de BayeuxJanet Catherine BerloIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 746.4; Needlework -- History; Needlework -- Social aspects; Expression in art
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350070400; 9781350070394
• Related ISBNs: 9781350070387
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