A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress

Part memoir, part cultural history, A Woven World celebrates the fading crafts, industries, and artisans that have...
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Author: Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Language: English
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A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress by Deming, Alison Hawthorne

A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress

BD$45.65

A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress

BD$45.65
Author: Alison Hawthorne Deming
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Part memoir, part cultural history, A Woven World celebrates the fading crafts, industries, and artisans that have defined communities for generations.

The desire to create is the cornerstone of civilization. But as we move into a world where machine manufacturing has nearly usurped craft, Alison Hawthorne Deming resists the erasure of our shared history of handiwork with this appeal for embracing continuity and belonging in a time of destabilizing change.

Sensing a need to preserve the crafts and stories of our founding communities, and inspired by an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute featuring Yves St. Laurent's "sardine" dress, Deming turned to the industries of her ancestors, both the dressmakers and designers in Manhattan in the nineteenth century and the fishermen on Grand Manan Island, a community of 2,500 residents, where the dignity of work and the bounty of the sea ruled for hundreds of years.

Reweaving the fabric of those lives, A Woven World gives presence on the page to the people, places, and practices, uncovering and preserving a record of the ingenuity and dignity that comes with such work. In this way the lament becomes a song of praise and a testament to the beauty and fragility of human making.

Author: Alison Hawthorne Deming
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 08/24/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781640094826


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2021
Booklist 07/01/2021 pg. 8
Publishers Weekly 08/02/2021

About the Author
Alison Hawthorne Deming's most recent books include Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit and the poetry collection Stairway to Heaven. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and Walt Whitman Award, she is Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. She lives in Tucson and on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada.

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