Faded and Threadbare Historic Textiles and Their Role in Houses Open to the Public

ISBN-13: 9781138307179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017

Margaret Ponsonby

Opis

Taking National Trust properties as its central focus, this book examines three interlocking themes to examine the role of historic textiles. It looks at houses with preserved contents together with the reasons for individual families choosing this lifestyle, the role of the National Trust as both guardian and interpreter of these houses and their collections, and finally, the influence of textiles to contribute to the appearance of interiors, and their physical attributes that carry historical resonances of the past.

Spis treści

Faded and threadbare interiors; Preserving historic houses: interpreting the fabric of the past; Families who preserved their textiles in the past; Conserving textiles: from needlework and housekeeping to professional intervention; Textiles as palimpsest: history held in the surface attributes; Historic textiles with a past and a future; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Margaret Ponsonby is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Her research focuses on the acquisition and use of furnishings for the home and on the interpretation of domestic interiors open to the public.