[Read ebook] The Laces of Ipswich: The Art and Economics of an Early American Industry, 1750–1840
• Marta Cotterell Raffel •
| #2207857 in Books | UPNE | 2003-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.75 x6.75 x.50l,.84 | File Name: 1584651636 | 176 pages |
||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Quite a well-researched little book|By Lady La|While researching handmade laces of the eighteenth century for a grad-school project, I came across a small reference to Ipswich laces in an article from the early part of the twentieth century. I was totally intrigued by the idea of there being a handmade lace industry in New England. I had previously believed everyone was too|From the Publisher|7 x 10 trim. 101 illus. LC 2002-015336|About the Author|Marta Cotterell Raffel is a lace maker who learned the craft over the course of ten years from some of the most skilled people in the field. She ha
In its lace making heyday in the late eighteenth century, Ipswich, Massachusetts boasted 600 lace makers in a town of only 6OI households. Marta Cotterell Raffel's study is the first to focus specifically on the Ipswich lace industry in the wider world of eighteenth-century work. She explores how lacemakers learned their skills and how they combined a traditional lace making education with attention to market-driven changes in style. She shows how the tools of lacemakin...
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