No Idle Hands (audio book)
The Social History of American Knitting
Seiten
2008
Knitting Out Loud (Verlag)
978-0-9796073-3-2 (ISBN)
Knitting Out Loud (Verlag)
978-0-9796073-3-2 (ISBN)
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Tells an intimate story of hand knitting in America from Colonial times onwards. This title tells how women knit through the hardships of covered wagon travel across the West. It also tells how they knit to save their husbands and sons from freezing to death on battlefields.
CONTAINS 4 CDs
Knitting was interwoven into the lives of women throughout American history.
Drawn from diaries, letters and personal reminiscences, No Idle Hands tells an intimate and sometimes hair-raising story of hand knitting in America from Colonial times onward. Women knit through the hardships of covered wagon travel across the West. They knit to save their husbands and sons from freezing to death on battlefields. Shell-shocked men knit to save their sanity in hospitals during both world wars. No Idle Hands documents the importance knitting has had in American life.
CONTAINS 4 CDs
Knitting was interwoven into the lives of women throughout American history.
Drawn from diaries, letters and personal reminiscences, No Idle Hands tells an intimate and sometimes hair-raising story of hand knitting in America from Colonial times onward. Women knit through the hardships of covered wagon travel across the West. They knit to save their husbands and sons from freezing to death on battlefields. Shell-shocked men knit to save their sanity in hospitals during both world wars. No Idle Hands documents the importance knitting has had in American life.
Historian Anne L. Macdonald, the former head of the History Department at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. is also the author of Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America (1994) and Perrot: The Story of a Library (2006).
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.9.2008 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Stockton Springs |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 143 x 145 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-9796073-3-7 / 0979607337 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-9796073-3-2 / 9780979607332 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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