Silk Stocking

Author : Paula Laverty
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773525068
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silk Stocking Mats written by Paula Laverty and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1928, the Grenfell Mission sent out a call to socialites: "When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador!" The creative recycling of tattered stockings, dyed in soft hues, is just one of many innovations that made Grenfell hooked mats highly collectible folk art. In Silk Stocking Mats, Paula Laverty chronicles the development of a local craft into an art form. For generations Newfoundland women had augmented their family's unreliable fishing income with a "matting season" in February and March. Through the Grenfell Mission's Industrial Department, set up in 1909 to help develop cottage industries, the mat industry became an increasingly important source of income reaching peak production in the late 1920s and early 1930s when the women's mats became renowned for their strong design, meticulous craftsmanship, and distinctive northern images chronicling life in the north. Reindeer, sled dog teams, polar bears, schooners, outports, and florals are but a few of the mat designs.Silk Stocking Mats is the result of over seventeen years of exhaustive research and draws on personal interviews with older women who recall their hooking days, the study of hundreds of archival documents, and careful examination of countless Grenfell hooked mats. Laverty's book is beautifully illustrated with photographs and descriptions including rare and unusual as well as common mat designs.

Author : Sharon McConnell-Sidorick
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632969
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silk Stockings and Socialism written by Sharon McConnell-Sidorick and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement. A more complex story was unfolding among the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic fashion item of the flapper culture then sweeping America and the world. Although the young people who flooded into this booming industry were avid participants in Jazz Age culture, they also embraced a surprising, rights-based labor movement, headed by the socialist-led American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers (AFFFHW). In this first history of this remarkable union, Sharon McConnell-Sidorick reveals how activists ingeniously fused youth culture and radical politics to build a subculture that included dances and parties as well as picket lines and sit-down strikes, while forging a vision for social change. In documenting AFFFHW members and the Kensington community, McConnell-Sidorick shows how labor federations like the Congress of Industrial Organizations and government programs like the New Deal did not spring from the heads of union leaders or policy experts but were instead nurtured by grassroots social movements across America.

Author : Cyril Harcourt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pair of Silk Stockings written by Cyril Harcourt and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silk Stocking Murders written by Anthony Berkeley and published by Doubleday, Doran. This book was released on 1928 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the daughter of a country parson goes missing in London, Roger Sheringham receives a letter from her father pleading for help. As the amateur sleuth investigates, he discovers that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a door by her own silk stocking. It is presumed suicide, but when more young women are found dead in the same manner, questions arise. Was it merely copycat suicide, or will the case lead Sheringham into a maze of murder?

Author : Carla Landreth
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463497873
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silk Stocking Road written by Carla Landreth and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just outside of a small Texas town on a lazy hot day in 1919, sixteen year old Rachel Brock was found in the sea canes by the railroad tracks brutally murdered. A black man, Samuel Ford, was accused of the crime and was illegally hung. Seventeen years later Texas Special Agent Cal McKleen returns home to face the crime that not only tore a town apart but his family. His judgement comes into question when his partner, Jim Connors, learns that Cal and his cousin Jack have three things in common; a very lucrative family owned and operated mercantile; Katie, Jack's kind and caring wife, who had been Cal's true love that he abandonded years earlier; and a deadly secret they all share that is sure to destroy them. Can the combination of the three be the reason two innocent people died that hot August day? If so, will Cal be able to find the truth before there is another causality of that summer and will he be able to regain his partner's trust before it's too late?

Author : Jeanne Charters
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504086422
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silk Stocking written by Jeanne Charters and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of Irish American women seek better lives in Boston, in this historical saga of hope, hardship, and love by the author of Lace Curtain. Mary Boland suffered aboard a coffin ship to escape famine and make her way to America. Her daughter, Nellie, was born in South Boston—a beautiful girl, smart enough to graduate from college when few women, let alone women of her background, could. But her glowing future as a teacher is ruined when she becomes pregnant—and she is forced to cope on her own as the baby’s father disappears after returning to Ireland to fight for his nation’s liberation. Her subsequent rushed marriage to an ambitious politician will throw Nellie’s life far off course—and reverberate in her mother’s and daughter’s lives as well. Nothing will ever be the same in this gripping conclusion to the Daughters of Ireland saga—a tale of poverty and wealth, opportunity and danger, and family and forbidden love set against the tumultuous backdrop of the late nineteenth-century Gilded Age. Praise for Shanty Gold, the first in the Daughters of Ireland trilogy “Charters interweaves many important topics—immigration, civil rights, women’s rights—into her exciting novel . . . An evocative portrait of South Boston . . . Gripping.” —Kirkus Reviews “The story of a young Irish girl’s struggles told with an authentic, historically accurate voice.” —Sallie Bissell, author of the Mary Crow series “A wild ride of discovery, romance, and the search for a new way of life . . . with twists and turns along the way.” —Susan Blexrud, author of the Fang series

Author : Kate Chopin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486292649
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pair of Silk Stockings written by Kate Chopin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-09-24 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 9 masterful portraits of black and white inhabitants of Louisiana's bayou and urban areas. Written with grace, delicate humor, and a keen understanding of the female psyche.

Author : Thomas J. Lentini
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480924881
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silk Stocking Bandits written by Thomas J. Lentini and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk Stocking Bandits: City of Violence by Thomas J. Lentini For decades, the story of Youngstown, Ohio, was a story of violence. Organized crime, murder and political corruption were forces in the lives of residents, and shaped the city’s reputation to the larger world: Youngstown became Murdertown, USA. In vivid bursts of fiction and memoir, The Silk Stocking Bandits tracks the rise and fall of the mafia underworld as it weaves through the Mahoning Valley community and brushes up against the life of the author, Thomas J. Lentini, bringing the reader along from gambling heists to botched contract killings to Havana vacations, and from thrilling suspense to tragedy.

Author : Paula Laverty
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773582924
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silk Stocking Mats written by Paula Laverty and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1928, the Grenfell Mission sent out a call to socialites: When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador! The creative recycling of tattered stockings, dyed in soft hues, is just one of many innovations that made Grenfell hooked mats highly collectible folk art. In Silk Stocking Mats, Paula Laverty chronicles the development of a local craft into an art form. For generations Newfoundland women had augmented their family's unreliable fishing income with a matting season in February and March. Through the Grenfell Mission's Industrial Department, set up in 1909 to help develop cottage industries, the mat industry became an increasingly important source of income, reaching peak production in the late 1920s and early 1930s when the women's mats became renowned for their strong design, meticulous craftsmanship, and distinctive images chronicling life in the north. Reindeer, sled dog teams, polar bears, schooners, outports, and florals are but a few of the mat designs. Silk Stocking Mats is the result of over seventeen years of exhaustive research and draws on personal interviews with older women who recall their hooking days, the study of hundreds of archival documents, and careful examination of countless Grenfell hooked mats. Laverty's book is beautifully illustrated with photographs and descriptions, including rare and unusual as well as common mat designs.

Author : Anthony Berkeley
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008333898
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silk Stocking Murders written by Anthony Berkeley and published by Collins. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer. Investigating the disappearance of a vicar's daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sheringham is shocked to discover that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a screw by her own silk stocking. Reports of similar deaths across the capital strengthen his conviction that this is no suicide cult but the work of a homicidal maniac out for vengeance - a desperate situation requiring desperate measures. Having established Roger Sheringham as a brilliant but headstrong young sleuth who frequently made mistakes, trusted the wrong people and imbibed considerable liquid refreshment, Anthony Berkeley took his controversial character into much darker territory with The Silk Stocking Murders, a sensational novel about gruesome serial killings by an apparent psychopath bent on targeting vulnerable young women.