The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress.
Les mer
1. Introduction; 2. Stitched dress; 3. Recreating the English gown; 4. The manual labour of style; References.
Labour of the Stitch activates recreative practice to stitch back together the complex and symbiotic eighteenth-century cultures of fashion.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781009177696
Publisert
2024-04-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
150 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
150 mm
Dybde
5 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
90
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