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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

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They started their existence as on a regular basis objects, but within the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial The united states–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history.

In an age when even meals are rarely comprised of scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates resolve those simplified illusions, revealing essential clues to the culture and those that made them. Ulrich uses an Indian basket to explore the uneasy coexistence of native and colonial Americans. A piece of silk embroidery reveals racial and class distinctions, and two old spinning wheels remove darkness from the connections between colonial cloth-making and war. Pulling these divergent threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made, used, sold, and saved textiles as a way to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history.

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