[Ebook free] The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth






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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| How Woman Clothed America|By Fierce & Fond Reader|One stitch at a time, one woven inch a day. It's hard for us nowadays when every piece of clothing from our skin to winter hats & gloves come from every country in the world, made on machines.

My kind of history book: it takes a handstitched/woven relic & expands on its past & future, reminding us that after the War|From Publishers Weekly|In 1851, when theologian Horace Bushnell stood on the village green in Litchfield, Conn., and looked back lovingly on the "Age of Homespun," he was expressing a perennial American nostalgia for the "good old days," when clothing and other

They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history.

In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates unravel those simplifi...


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