Fashioning Fabric The Arts of Spinning and Weaving in Early Canada

Name: Fashioning Fabric The Arts of Spinning and Weaving in Early Canada
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ISBN: 9781550289800

ISBN-10: 1550289802

ISBN-13: 9781550289800

Edition: 2007

Authors: Adrienne Hood

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Beautiful full-colour photographs reveal the story of spinning and weaving in Canada Every spring in early Canada, fluffy sheep dotted the countryside, and in summer, blue flax flowers waved in the wind. By the fall harvest, they provided raw materials for the production of wool and linen, the focus of Fashioning Fabric: The Arts of Spinning and Weaving in Early Canada. This engaging social history explores the methods, tools, and patterns used by early immigrants to create their homemade textiles. The Acadians, Quebecois, Scots, English, American Loyalists, and German Mennonites all brought with them traditions that were reflected in their beautiful handiwork. The process was laborious --…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 8.25" wide x 9.13" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.792

ADRIENNE D. HOOD, herself a spinner and weaver, is a professor of history at University of Toronto and the former curator of textiles at the Royal Ontario Museum. She is the author of The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania. Adrienne Hood lives in Toronto.