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2007 Textile History Forum Proceedings

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Contents, with a foreword by Rabbit Goody:

  • Adams, Anne. "Done Without Spectacles: Three Generations of a Quaker Family and Their Textiles."
  • Baldia, Christel. "The Use of Colorants in Hopewell Textiles from the Seip Mound Group in Southern Ohio."
  • Dean, Phyllis. "The Rocker Beater Loom: An Early Form of Standing Beater Loom."
  • Heffernan, Sandy. "Peasant? The Transformation of an Aesthetic."
  • Koch-Esterline, Caryn Elizabeth. "Mary Alexander: Fashioning Colonial New York."
  • Laube, Gary. "The New England Pine Tree Flag."
  • Lovett, John. "Research and Restoration of a 19th-century Textile Machinery Collection."
  • McClintock, Deb. "The Lao Khao Tam Huuk–One of the Foundations of Lao Pattern Weaving."
  • Robare, Mary. "Quaker Networks Revealed in Quilts."
  • Sider, Sandra. "Origins of American Art Quilts: Politics and Technology."
  • Sweeney, Melodie. "The Flowering of the Rose Blanket."
  • Walter, Ron. "Decorated Hetchels." 
  • With Works in Progress by Stan Gorski and Martha Graham.

2003 Textile History Forum Proceedings

Contents, with a foreword by Rabbit Goody:

  • "Knitted Handwear: Preserving Cultural Identity in Hand-Stitches" by Jay Ruckel
  • "Advertising and Knitting: Cranking Out Socks on Contract at Home, 1900-1926" by Richard Candee
  • "Whose Corset Is It?" by Nancy Boulin
  • "Exploring the Textures of Prehistoric Textiles: The Replication of Footwear and Bags" by Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff
  • "To Market To Market: The Trials and Tribulations of Textile Adaptation–Highland Guatemalan Maya Women Through the Centuries" by Amber H. J. Judge
  • "Homespun Myths: Middleclass Values Meet the Marketplace" by Judith Rygiel
  • "The Ithaca Carpet Factory: Fancy Weaving, Home Production, and Superior Design" by Jill Maney and Jonathan Maney
  • "Regional Preferences in Fancy Coverlet Designs: An Ohio Study" by Viginia Gunn
  • "The Nineteenth-Century Diaries of Samantha and Zeloda Barrett, Weavers and Spinners in Nineteenth-Century Hartford, Connecticut" by Sharon Usba Steinberg
  • "Airplanes, Balloons, and Cartridge Bags: A Few Fabrics of World War I" by Katharine Dirks
  • "The Value of Staying in Touch: A Researcher’s Use of Public History" by Michael J.Smith