With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nehrig, Nicole

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

Knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting--throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as...
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Author: Nicole Nehrig
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Language: English
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With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nehrig, Nicole

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

$50.68

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

$50.68
Author: Nicole Nehrig
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting--throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely "women's work" and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience. Yet, as psychologist and avid knitter Nicole Nehrig wonderfully explores in this captivating book, textile work has often been a way for women to exercise power. When their voices were silenced and other avenues were closed off to them, women used the tools they had--often a needle and thread--to seek freedom within the restrictive societies they lived in.

Spanning continents and centuries, With Her Own Hands brings together remarkable stories of women who have used textiles as a means of liberation, from an eighteenth-century Quaker boarding school that used embroidered samplers to teach girls math and geography to the Quechua weavers working to preserve and revive Incan traditions today, and from the Miao women of southern China who, in the absence of a written language, pass down their histories in elaborate "story cloths" to a midcentury British women's postal art exchange. Textiles have been a way for women to explore their intellectual capacities, seek economic independence, create community, process traumas, and convey powerful messages of self-expression and political protest.

Heartfelt and deeply moving, With Her Own Hands is a celebration of women who have woven their own stories--and a testament to their resilience.



Author: Nicole Nehrig
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/19/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781324074854


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2025
Library Journal 07/01/2025 pg. 68
Booklist 07/01/2025 pg. 12

About the Author
Nehrig, Nicole: - Nicole Nehrig is a clinical and research psychologist and a passionate knitter and textile crafter living in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a PhD in clinical psychology.

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