Southern Tufts: The Regional Origins and National Craze for Chenille Fashion
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820345164 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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ASHLEY CALLAHAN has an MA in the history of American decorative arts from Parsons School of Design and the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Institution, and a BA in art history from the University of the South. Callahan, an independent scholar and former curator of decorative arts at the Georgia Museum of Art, is the author of Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry E
history. Soon after the bedspreads became popular, enterprising women began creating hand-tufted garments, including candlewick kimonos in the 1920s and candlewick dresses in the early 1930s. Southern Tufts is the first book to highlight the garments produced by northwestern Georgia’s tufted textile industry. The well-researched and heavily illustrated text presents a broad history of tufted textiles, as well as sections highlighting individual craftspeople and manufacturers involved with the production of chenille fashion.. At the end of the century, interest in chenille fashion revived, fueled by nostalgia and an interest in recycling vintage materials.Chenille bedspreads, bathrobes, and accessories hung for sale both in roadside souvenir shops, especially along the Dixie Highway, and in department stores all over the nation. Though best known now for its production of carpet, in the early twentieth century the region was revered for its handtufted candlewick bedspreads, products that grew out of the Southern Appalachian Craft Revival and appealed to the vogue for Colonial Revival–style household go
Tufting grew from the candlewicking hand-production in southern Appalachia into the chenille automated commercial industry centered around Dalton, Georgia. Parmal author of Women's Work: Embroidery in Colonial Boston)The book is a thoroughly researched survey of the fuzzy fabric’s history, beginning with Catherine Evans Whitener, credited for reviving the art form and first commercializing it in 1895, and encompassing profiles of the northwest Georgia textile companies that produced the fabric as it rose and fell in popularity over the years. (Philis Alvic author of Weavers of the Southern Highlands)Callahan’s handling of this material is masterful. (Dale Couch, Curator of Decorative Arts, Georgia Mu
"Fashion and Southern History along Peacock Alley in Georgia" according to bookwomenFashion and Southern History along Peacock Alley in Georgia I picked up this book because I enjoy reading about fashion and southern history and this book combined the two. The author has done a great job with her research and written a very readable book combined with wonderful photographs. The author begins with the beginning of the candlewick/chenille bedspread in Northern Georgia and ends with the revival of chenille fashion. She also provides shor. 7. I picked up this book because I enjoy reading about fashion and southern history and this book combined the two. The author has done a great job with her research and written a very readable book combined with wonderful photographs. The author begins with the beginning of the candlewick/chenille bedspread in Northern Georgia and ends with the revival of chenille fashion. She also provides shor