Overshot - The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South

Informationen zum Autor SUSAN FALLS is a professor of anthropology at the Savannah College of Art & Design and the author of White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing and Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds . Zusammenfassung Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteenth-century American South typically featured coloured wool and cotton threads woven into geometric patterns. Susan Falls and Jessica Smith analyse what we can learn by examining these materials.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Falls, Susan/ Smith Falls, Jessica R Smith, Jessica R. Smith
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780820357713
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-5771-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Afrikanische Geschichte, HISTORY / African American, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, DESIGN / Textile & Costume