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Daily Life Under Duress: Richard Vaux, A Philadelphia Textile Merchant And His Business, 1777-1790, Marisa A. Morra
Daily Life Under Duress: Richard Vaux, A Philadelphia Textile Merchant And His Business, 1777-1790, Marisa A. Morra
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
Richard Vaux was a Philadelphia merchant who sold textiles during and immediately after the Revolution. His story may be told as the biography of a Quaker merchant and businessman. But his story has more to offer. It may, more importantly, shed light on the merchant profession itself, for it is possible to show how this man's personal life influenced the goods he distributed to the American market .
The Revolutionary period, when Vaux reached the peak of his business activity, has traditionally been considered a "transitional" period, and has not been the focus of much recent material culture scholarship.2 …
Japanese Textiles Of Daily Life, Iwao Nagasaki
Japanese Textiles Of Daily Life, Iwao Nagasaki
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
The main function of textiles in daily life is that of clothing. Along with food and shelter, clothing the body from the elements has been one of the most essential conditions since primitive times. Since the time when animal hides and plant parts were used to protect one's body from the external world, clothing has always been closely related to human life. Therefore, it can be said that clothes were invented and developed for daily use and, at the primitive level, one type of garment served all purposes.
At this level, the material and style of clothing were one hundred …
Textiles And Identity In Prehistoric Southwestern North America, Lynn S. Teague
Textiles And Identity In Prehistoric Southwestern North America, Lynn S. Teague
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
This study focuses on the place that textiles had in the lives of people in the central Greater Southwest after about A.D.1000, and in particular on the development of two distinctive traditions in cloth that co-existed in the central Southwest during this period. These traditions were the predecessors of two equally distinctive historic textile traditions, those of the puebloan people of the Colorado Plateau and those of the O'Odham in the Sonora Desert of southern and central Arizona.
Clothing is a basic means of indicating social identity, and in the prehistoric Southwest provides some of our most intriguing evidence of …