The Laces of Ipswich: The Art and Economics of an Early American Industry, 1750–1840
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (735 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1584651636 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Great book for Massachusetts History Buffs My ancestors came from England to Ipswich, MA in the 1820s and 1830s, and helped revolutionize the lace and hosiery industries there, so I had a personal interest in this subject. This book explores both the cottage industry and the mills, and discusses the lace patterns in detail. I learned a lot from this book! Lace patterns denoted social standing; George Washington visited Ipswi. Lady La said Quite a well-researched little book. 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 puritanical to make lace (in seventeenth-century Massac. A great book with wonderful information! M. Auker If you are interested in bobbin lace, history of textiles in America, early American industries or just history in general this is a wonderful book. Full of information and has great photos. The history of this style of lace is something that needs to be appreciated and not lost to us today.I only wish that lace such as this was still as valued and could support those who are still
Her research for this book was partially supported by the Great Lakes Lace Guild and the Chesapeake Region Lace Guild. . She has published essays about Ipswich lace in Antiques and Civilization Magazine, and lectured on the topic at the Heard House in Ipswich, Massachusetts, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Dublin Seminar, among others. 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 fiel
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. With extensive research based on hundreds of previously unseen artifacts and documents, Raffel shows how this preindustrial labor and craft - absolutely central to the economic health of Ipswich - created and sustained forms of early American culture such as fashion and political symbolism, and shaped an entire community for several generations.. She shows how the tools of lacemaking were intrinsic parts of the craft, and how the shawls, bonnets, and capes created by the lacemakers designated the social class, and sometimes even the political affiliation, of those that wore them. In its lace making heyday in the late eighteenth century, Ipswich, Massachusetts boasted 600 lace makers in a town of only 6OI households
LC 2002-015336 . From the Publisher 7 x 10 trim. 101 illus