Fascination with Fiber: Michigan's Handweaving Heritage
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Fascination with Fiber: Michigan's Handweaving Heritage
Fascination with Fiber: Michigan's Handweaving Heritage

Fascination with Fiber: Michigan's Handweaving Heritage

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Marie A. Gile (Author) Marion T. Marzolf (Author)  

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Fascination with Fiber focuses on the forces that have kept the craft of handweaving alive in Michigan and throughout the country: individuals, organizations, and communities enlivened through necessity, opportunity, and creativity. For decades, Michigan has been at the center of handweaving and fiber arts and crafts, from the early days of immigrants who brought their skills with them from the Old Country through the latter part of the twentieth century, when the state was a vital part of the national fiber movement, including handweaving. Like the rest of the country, Michigan attracted immigrants who enriched its way of life. They hailed from countries where handicrafts and weaving were traditionally strong, and yet the textiles they produced in their new country, from linens to coverlets to rugs, took on a distinctly American expression. The book is based on oral histories, interviews, and documentary and artifact research, from stories of colorful characters such as Mary Atwater, the gun-toting weaver from Montana who helped organize the hand-weaving industry and who published the Shuttle-Craft Bulletin, to the story of Hartland as the site of the first national weaving institute in 1938, all the way to the formation of the Michigan League of Handweavers in 1959. 40 illustrations
Marie A. Gile is Curator of Michigan State University Museum in Lansing. She has been a handweaver for 25 years. Marion T. Marzolf was Professor in the Department of Journalism and Communication at the University of Michigan. She retired in 1995. She is he author of Up From the Footnote: A History of Women Journalists and Civilizing Voices: American Press Criticism. She lives in Ann Arbor.
  • Contributor: Marie A. Gile
  • Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
  • ISBN13: 9780472031139
  • Number of Pages: 168
  • Packaged Weight: 333
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
  • Release Date: 2006-06-30
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Marie A. Gile is Curator of Michigan State University Museum in Lansing. She has been a handweaver for 25 years. Marion T. Marzolf was Professor in the Department of Journalism and Communication at the University of Michigan. She retired in 1995. She is he author of Up From the Footnote: A History of Women Journalists and Civilizing Voices: American Press Criticism. She lives in Ann Arbor.

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