Peggy Hart: Wool | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780764354311 | Wool | Unraveling an American Story of Artisans and Innovation | Hart

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Beschreibung

Keeping people warm for four centuries, wool has been an essential commodity from colonial times to the present. This book tells wool's colorful and surprisingly epic tale and how it has impacted millions of lives from immigrants, slaves, Native Americans, to farmers and advertisers. Author Hart reveals little-known but fascinating facts about US societyâfor example, how huge flocks of sheep were driven to the California gold fields to feed hungry miners, and why sheep grazed on the White House lawn during World War I. Moving from the realms of handcrafted artisanry to industrialization and back, Wool is a story of technological and social change, marketing forces, and above all, consumer choices. A must-read for anyone who has knitted socks, woven a tapestry, or curled up with a warm wool blanket.

Über den Autor

Peggy Hart is a teacher and production weaver. She designs, produces, and markets hundreds of blankets each year, including custom blankets for sheep and alpaca farmers using their own yarn. She weaves on totally obsolete Crompton and Knowles W-3 industrial looms.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780764354311
ISBN-10:	0764354310
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hart, Peggy
Hersteller:	Schiffer Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	226 x 155 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Peggy Hart
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.11.2017
Gewicht:	0,499 kg