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Blog | The Spinning Project | Spinning in the era of the spinning wheel, 1400-1800
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Spinning in the era of the spinning wheel, 1400-1800. Robert Allen’s spinning jenny is broken. 25 January, 2016. The late Eric Hobsbawm famously remarked ‘whoever says Industrial Revolution says cotton’. Traditional accounts of the British Industrial Revolution tell the story of an Asian textile cotton transformed into a cheap, mass-produced British staple by means of cost-cutting mechanical inventions. Indeed, technology was centre stage in Adolphe Blanqui’s 1837. The Enlightened Economy: An Economic Hi...
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Flax dressing in Pennsylvania | The Spinning Project
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Spinning in the era of the spinning wheel, 1400-1800. Robert and Nathan Hyde pattern book, 1771. Richard Arkwright goes to Germany →. Flax dressing in Pennsylvania. 25 November, 2013. Thanks to Christian and Johannes Zinzendorf (and Linda Eaton who arranged it and drove me! I finally achieved a two year ambition, to turn flax stems into fibre. Christian and Johannes have been growing. Flax since the 1980s, and were kind enough to share their expertise with me (even though it was 3 degrees out! Next the f...
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garment/research › a point of reference, a portable system of investigation and a tool of connection.
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A point of reference, a portable system of investigation and a tool of connection. GRAIN(Garment Research Agricultural Research Initiative). Sunday, June 3, 2012. Our clothing is our second skin and portable shelter, our cloth familiar. My work unravels the disconnect in the most immediate of daily interactions, that of the wearer to his/her clothing. Psychologically, clothing is the wearers’ pliable context, a tangible imprint of individual and relational identities. Slow and steady wins the race.
