The shock and trauma are obvious in what women wove. Females were then, and keep on being these days, “the backbone of Lao society,” reported Linda McIntosh, a textile specialist in Luang Prabang, Laos. Women not only were being in demand of handling the house and boosting youngsters they ended […]
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Victorian fashion history influences modern textile artist
Alessia Sushko in Abstract of Recollections and Andre Ornish wears ‘attorney Lamb stares down a ruffian’ at the Petiti Palais in Paris. (Photograph by Sharon Avraham) Mary Ornish presented a lecture, “Tattered Splendor,” at The Gaslamp Quarter Historic Basis in the Gaslamp Museum at the Davis-Horton Property on Jan. 18. […]
Mapping the history of New England’s once-booming textile industry
“Spinning cotton yarn in the great textile mills, Lawrence, Mass.” is one of the images from the exhibit “Industry, Wealth, and Labor: Mapping New England’s Textile Industry” at the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine. Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern […]