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PDF version (non interactive). This is a faithful copy of the book with original illustrations ©David M. Hunt and cover art ©Hazel P. Mason. Text ©Penelope Hemingway. Published 2020, York, England, published at the sign of the Pretty Baa Lambs Press.”Their Darkest Materials” is a compelling history of the dark side of material culture. Quite literally “material culture” as it concerns textile history.’Their Darkest Materials’ is about the seamy, dark, sometimes creepy underside of material culture and textile history. A sort of ‘Horrible History’ for grown-ups.In ‘Their Darkest Materials’, we creep through nineteenth century asylums, debtors’ prisons, charity schools, pubs and marketplaces, the ‘stews’ (brothels) of the city, school-rooms, collapsing London houses, workhouse toilets, small-town waxwork exhibitions in back rooms and see ladies knitting in grand Georgian drawing rooms, following the unravelling thread of history’s textiles.We’ll find out which Victorian novelist’s mauve ribbon was trapped in her coffin lid and discover clothing-as-evidence in an infamous London burking case (“Burking” as in “Burke and Hare”).And we’ll watch a Yorkshire farmer’s wife knit a blue stocking on the morning of her murder and a caddish, handsome soldier murdering his stocking-knitting new wife. And we’ll spend time in the county asylum with a world famous dyer’s incendiarist wife and an embroiderer who used her art to say the unsayable.Chapters:1. Grim and Less Grim Deaths: The Approach of the Destroyer, the Partly-Murdered Knitter & Other Tales2. The Bewitched Spinning Wheel & Other Tales3. Murder, Mayhem and Knitting as Evidence4. The Small Woman: The Nineteenth Century Needlewoman5. “Virtute et Industria”. The Stick, the Carrot and the Virtuous Child & Also the Trope of the Extremely Old Knitter6. The Lost: Runaways – Slaves, Servants, Apprentices and The Captive7. “Twelve Bobbins Spinning”. Charity Schools & Poor Houses8. Prisons and Idle Loiterers9. The Dyer Who Watched Storms and also Concerning A Properly Shaped Female10. Nathaniel Smith, the Knitting Schoolmaster232 pages. Non interactive PDF. See separate listing for physical copy of book. Made in UK. Published by Pretty Baa Lambs Press.Physical copies available on separate listing.

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