With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories Book

$33.00

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nicole Nehrig Psychologist and knitter Nicole Nehrig delves into the myriad ways that art forms such as knitting, sewing and embroidery are liberating for women. Spanning continents and centuries, Nehrig brings together remarkable stories of women, from an eighteenth-century Quaker boarding school that used embroidered samplers to teach girls maths and geography to the Quechua weavers working to preserve and revive Incan traditions today, and from the Miao women of southern China who pass down their histories in elaborate story cloths to a mid-century British women’s postal art exchange. Throughout history, 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.With Her Own Hands is a celebration of women who have woven their own stories and created objects of beauty and significance.

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With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nicole Nehrig Psychologist and knitter Nicole Nehrig delves into the myriad ways that art forms such as knitting, sewing and embroidery are liberating for women. Spanning continents and centuries, Nehrig brings together remarkable stories of women, from an eighteenth-century Quaker boarding school that used embroidered samplers to teach girls maths and geography to the Quechua weavers working to preserve and revive Incan traditions today, and from the Miao women of southern China who pass down their histories in elaborate story cloths to a mid-century British women’s postal art exchange. Throughout history, 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.With Her Own Hands is a celebration of women who have woven their own stories and created objects of beauty and significance.

Brand new from publisher

S H I P P I N G & I N T E R N A T I O N A L C U S T O M E R S

This find will ship to you within one week of purchasing.

International and combined shipping is available, however please contact us via instagram DM at @Folkling for a personalized shipping quote, or via the email on our contact page.

If you are an international buyer, please do not purchase without confirming shipping charges beforehand, there may be a shipping profile at checkout that is for another customers order and not intended for anyone else’s use.