TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newell,Aimee E.
TI  - A stitch in time: the needlework of aging women in antebellum America 
SN  - 9780821420522
AV  - NK8812 .N49 2014
U1  - 746.46 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Athens
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Needlework
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Quilting
KW  - Samplers
KW  - Older women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Middle class women
KW  - Aging
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
KW  - Textiles & Costume
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - 19th Century
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Women's Studies
KW  - Travaux d'aiguilles
KW  - ram
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Femmes des classes moyennes
KW  - Vieillissement
KW  - Aspect psychologique
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-259) and index; The physical challenges of needlework -- Growing old gracefully -- The technological reshaping of antebellum needlework -- I give and bequeath this quilt: needlework as property -- Family currency: the gift needlework of aging women -- Biographical needlework: telling a life story -- Threads of life: needlework as memorial
N2  - "Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework -- primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States -- made by individual women aged 40 and over between 1820 and 1860, this exquisitely illustrated book explores how women experienced social and cultural change in antebellum America. The book is filled with individual examples, stories, and over eighty fine color photographs that illuminate the role that samplers and needlework played in the culture of the time. For example, in October 1852, Amy Fiske (1785-1859) of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, stitched a sampler. But she was not a schoolgirl making a sampler to learn her letters. Instead, as she explained, "The above is what I have taken from my sampler that I wrought when I was nine years old. It was w[rough]t on fine cloth [and] it tattered to pieces. My age at this time is 66 years." Situated at the intersection of women's history, material culture study, and the history of aging, this book brings together objects, diaries, letters, portraits, and prescriptive literature to consider how middle-class American women experienced the aging process. Chapters explore the physical and mental effects of "old age" on antebellum women and their needlework, technological developments related to needlework during the antebellum period and the tensions that arose from the increased mechanization of textile production, and how gift needlework functioned among friends and family members. Far from being solely decorative ornaments or functional household textiles, these samplers and quilts served their own ends. They offered aging women a means of coping, of sharing and of expressing themselves. These "threads of time" provide a valuable and revealing source for the lives of mature antebellum women"--
ER  -