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Fusing aesthetic and economic perspectives in exploring the lives and work of women in the Lucknow, India embroidery industry, this book offers insights into anthropology of work and women’s studies.
This title provides everything sewing machine users need to know, from the types and formats of embroidery design available, how to get them off the internet and into their machine, how to stabilise fabric, which threads and needles to use, and how to use these designs creatively for beautiful results.
Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Information Management, grade: 4.0, , language: English, abstract: The personal motivation selecting this capstone project topic goes back to 2014. I visited Otto Dotzauer’s factory with my undergraduate study group in a small town in Saxony, South-East Germany. The company consists of an office and one factory hall which has a few types of machinery that operate in an old traditional way and with less automation. Despite Meinels Stick and Designerspitzen Plauen GmbH, it is one of three companies in this region that preserves the German textile heritage. The products of Otto Dotzauer are considered as traditional craftsmanship.
Cluckie explores the growth and development of Art Embroidery in Britain circa 1870-1890, giving special consideration to the support received from the art establishment in designing for and educating embroiderers. This thesis demonstrates the hidden workforce's contribution to the British economy.
Study conducted in the four villages of the Howrah District of West Bengal, India.
This edited collection, first published in 1991, focuses on the commercial relations, marketing structures and development of consumption that accompanied early industrial expansion. The papers examine aspects of industrial structure and work organisation, including women’s work, and highlight the conflict and compromise between work traditions and the emergence of a market culture. With an overarching introduction providing a background to European manufacturing, this title will be of particular interest to students of social and economic history researching early industrial Europe and the concurrent emergence of a material, consumer culture.