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"[E]njoyably fresh and informative."-Gayle Stege, Curator, Ohio State University, Historic Costumes & Textiles Collection."[A] most informative essay about the production of woolen clothing in late 18th-century America."-Karen Parsons, Coordinator, Depreciation Lands Museum."On display in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., is the only uniform worn by George Washington known to survive. As a rareartifact it is priceless; but it also has value for what it can tell us about everyday life during a significant period in American history.The sewing machine hadn't been invented, so all clothing was sewn by hand, one stitch at a time. The fabric, too, was made by hand-in fact, by many hands. Using Washington's uniform as a model, Donald Tunnicliff Rice takes us through the many steps necessary to make an eighteenth-century garment. Along theway we learn a great deal about the colonies'-and the new nation's-social structure, economy, industry, foreign relations, and hopes for the future.… (mais)
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"[E]njoyably fresh and informative."-Gayle Stege, Curator, Ohio State University, Historic Costumes & Textiles Collection."[A] most informative essay about the production of woolen clothing in late 18th-century America."-Karen Parsons, Coordinator, Depreciation Lands Museum."On display in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., is the only uniform worn by George Washington known to survive. As a rareartifact it is priceless; but it also has value for what it can tell us about everyday life during a significant period in American history.The sewing machine hadn't been invented, so all clothing was sewn by hand, one stitch at a time. The fabric, too, was made by hand-in fact, by many hands. Using Washington's uniform as a model, Donald Tunnicliff Rice takes us through the many steps necessary to make an eighteenth-century garment. Along theway we learn a great deal about the colonies'-and the new nation's-social structure, economy, industry, foreign relations, and hopes for the future.