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The Silk Weaver

2017-01-31 Fiction
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Release : 2017-01-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 937/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Silk Weaver by : Liz Trenow

Download or read book The Silk Weaver written by Liz Trenow. This book was released on 2017-01-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Buttterfield moves from her Suffolk country home to her uncle's house in London, to be introduced to society. A chance encounter with a local silk weaver, French immigrant Henri, throws her from her privileged upbringing to the darker, dangerous world of London's silk trade. Henri is working on his 'master piece' to make his name as a master silk weaver; Anna meanwhile is struggling against the constraints of her family and longing to become an artist. Henri realizes that Anna's designs could lift his work above the ordinary, and give them both an opportunity for freedom . . . This is a charming story of illicit romance, set against the world of the burgeoning silk trade in 18th century Spitalfields - a time of religious persecution, mass migration, racial tension and wage riots, and ideas of what was considered 'proper' for women.

The Silk Weavers of Kyoto

2003-01-15 Political Science
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Release : 2003-01-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 764/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Silk Weavers of Kyoto by : Tamara Hareven

Download or read book The Silk Weavers of Kyoto written by Tamara Hareven. This book was released on 2003-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for kimono, they find their livelihood and pride harder to sustain. This book is a poignant exploration of a vanishing world. Tamara Hareven integrates historical research with intensive life history interviews to reveal the relationships among family, work, and community in this highly specialized occupation. Hareven uses her knowledge of textile workers' lives in the United States and Western Europe to show how striking similarities in weavers' experiences transcend cultural differences. These very rich personal testimonies, taken over a decade and a half, provide insight into how these men and women have juggled family and work roles and coped with insecurities. Readers can learn firsthand how weavers perceive their craft and how they interpret their lives and view the world around them. With rare immediacy, The Silk Weavers of Kyoto captures a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.

The Silk Weaver

1998 Fiction
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Release : 1998
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 197/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Silk Weaver by : Gabrielle Warnock

Download or read book The Silk Weaver written by Gabrielle Warnock. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dublin in 1798, Anton Paradis is a silk weaver whose only desire is to create beautiful patterns on the finest of silk. He finds his life in turmoil when he is forced to betray his employer and friend and is caught in a spiralling nightmare of events.

The Silk Weaver

2017-01-26 Fiction
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Release : 2017-01-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 255/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Silk Weaver by : Liz Trenow

Download or read book The Silk Weaver written by Liz Trenow. This book was released on 2017-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Buttterfield moves from her Suffolk country home to her uncle's house in London, to be introduced to society. A chance encounter with a local silk weaver, French immigrant Henri, throws her from her privileged upbringing to the darker, dangerous world of London's silk trade. Henri is working on his 'master piece' to make his name as a master silk weaver; Anna meanwhile is struggling against the constraints of her family and longing to become an artist. Henri realizes that Anna's designs could lift his work above the ordinary, and give them both an opportunity for freedom ... This is a charming story of illicit romance, set against the world of the burgeoning silk trade in 18th century Spitalfields - a time of religious persecution, mass migration, racial tension and wage riots, and ideas of what was considered 'proper' for women.

Blackberry and Wild Rose

2019-05-07 Fiction
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Release : 2019-05-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 749/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Blackberry and Wild Rose by : Sonia Velton

Download or read book Blackberry and Wild Rose written by Sonia Velton. This book was released on 2019-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in eighteenth-century Spitalfields, London, Blackberry and Wild Rose is the rich and atmospheric tale of a household of Huguenot silk weavers as the pursuit of the perfect silk design leads them all into ambition, love, and betrayal. When Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel, she thinks she is doing God’s will, but her good deed is not returned. Sara quickly realizes that the Thorel household is built on hypocrisy and lies and soon tires of the drudgery of life as Esther’s new lady’s maid. As the two women’s relationship becomes increasingly fractious, Sara resolves to find out what it is that so preoccupies her mistress ... Esther has long yearned to be a silk designer. When her early watercolors are dismissed by her husband, Elias, as the daubs of a foolish girl, she continues her attempts in secret. It may have been that none of them would ever have become actual silks, were it not for the presence of the extraordinarily talented Bisby Lambert in the Thorel household. Brought in by Elias to weave his master piece on the Thorel’s loom in the attic of their house in Spitalfields, the strange cadence of the loom as Bisby works is like a siren call to Esther. The minute she first sets foot in the garret and sees Bisby Lambert at his loom marks the beginning of Blackberry and Wild Rose, the most exquisite silk design Spitalfields has ever seen, and the end of the Thorel household’s veneer of perfection. As unrest among the journeyman silk weavers boils over into riot and rebellion, it leads to a devastating day of reckoning between Esther and Sara.

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