Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (hardcover)
- Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- SKU: 7083
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Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased out from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth - and history - in early America.
Under the singular and brilliant lens that Ulrich brings to this study, ordinary household goods - Indian baskets, spinning wheels, a chimneypiece, a cupboard, a niddy-noddy, bed coverings, silk embroidery, a pocketbook, a linen tablecloth, a coverlet and Pulling these divergent threads together in a rich and revealing tapestry of "the age of homespun," Ulrich demonstrates how ordinary objects reveal larger economic and social structures, and, in particular, how early Americans and their descendants made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert identities, shape relationships, and create history. 2001. 512pp.
