TY  - GEN
T1  - Hands to the spindle : Texas women and home textile production, 1822-1880
T2  - Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ;
A1  - Marks, Paula Mitchell, 1951-
LA  - English
PP  - College Station, Tex.
PB  - Texas A & M University Press
YR  - 1996
ED  - 1st ed.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm48138448
AB  - In nineteenth-century Texas women's hands often created the fabrics their families wore, the blankets used to cover their tired bodies, and the textiles that furnished their homes. Through spinning, weaving, dyeing, and knitting of clothing and linens, women displayed their abilities and their dreams of a better future. These day-to-day activities of Texas women spinners and weavers come to life in award-winning author Paula Mitchell Marks's Hands to the Spindle. The hum.
AB  - Of the spinning wheel and the clatter of the loom provided regular accompaniment to the lives of many Texas women immigrants and their families. Producing much-needed garments and cloth also provided an escape from the worries and isolation of frontier life. One early chronicler, Mary Crownover Rabb, kept her spinning wheel whistling all day and most of the night because the spinning kept her "from hearing the Indians walking around hunting mischief." Through the stories.
AB  - Of real women and an overview of their textile crafts, Paula Mitchell Marks introduces readers to a functional art rarely practiced in our more hurried times. Photographs of some of their actual handiwork and evocative pen sketches of women at work and the tools and dye plants they used, delicately drawn by artist Walle Conoly, bring the words to life.
OP  - 133
CN  - HD6073.T42 U55 1996eb
SN  - 0585381151
SN  - 9780585381152
SN  - 0890966990
SN  - 9780890966990
KW  - Women textile workers : Texas : History : 19th century.
KW  - Women weavers : Texas : History : 19th century.
KW  - Hand weaving : Texas : History : 19th century.
KW  - Spinning : Texas : History : 19th century.
KW  - Travailleuses du textile : Texas : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Tisserandes : Texas : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Tissage à la main : Texas : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Filature : Texas : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Labor.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Labor & Industrial Relations.
KW  - Hand weaving
KW  - Spinning
KW  - Women textile workers
KW  - Women weavers
KW  - Texas
KW  - Textielindustrie.
KW  - Thuiswerk.
KW  - Vrouwenarbeid.
KW  - Business & Economics.
KW  - Labor & Workers' Economics.
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - History
ER  -