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Title: Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber, E. J. W. Barber ISBN: 0-393-03506-9 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredible history of women and fiber art
Comment: As a fiber artist, I am very interested in the history of fiber. Elizabeth Barber's "Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years" is fantastic, both as a history of the use of fibers and as a history of working women. I learned a great deal about women's role in society from her research, and it makes me proud to be a modern woman working with fiber, just as my ancestors did. Highly recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: Interesting history of some parts of women's work. I enjoyed it very much. Whether you are interested in fabric or not, I think you'll enjoy this book. It is scholarly but still a good read that keeps your interest.
Rating: 5
Summary: It's no work to read this book!
Comment: This book covers a huge amount of information without ever being dry or boring. The tone is conversational throughout and incredibly interesting. The author shows us the oldest surviving fragment of cloth (a wool plaid from 800 B.C.) and then weaves a replica herself to see how long it would have taken to make. There are examples of Greek pottery showing women weaving at warp-weighted looms, which allows the author to tell us about the migration of peoples by describing finds of loom weights in Egypt. Other pottery fragments show women walking and hand spinning at the same time, and then a drawing of the Venus de Milo, with arms drawn on, shows that her arms are in the same position and she was very likely spinning thread. It's a marvelous book that's as easy to understand as a conversation over a fence with your neighbor. In fact, there's a picture of two modern Hungarian girls doing just that while wearing their typical bell-like national costume, and beside this picture is a scene from a mid-first millennium B.C. vase found in Hungary showing a very similar costume. The author moves us back and forth through history and across the continents with ease and interest. It's a fabulous book.
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Title: The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Wayland Barber, E. J. W. Barber ISBN: 0393320197 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Prehistoric Textiles by E. J.W. Barber ISBN: 069100224X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 14 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Cloth and Human Experience (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry) by Annette B. Weiner, Jane Schneider ISBN: 0874749956 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Book of Looms: A History of the Handloom from Ancient Times to the Present by Eric Broudy ISBN: 0874516498 Publisher: Brown Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Working Women in America: Split Dreams by Sharlene Janice Hesse-Biber, Gregg Lee Carter ISBN: 0195110250 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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