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Featuring textiles from the Kentucky Museum and Kentucky Historical Society,
Whitework: Women Stitching Identity explores the significance of early white embellished textiles that have been largely ignored, undervalued, and misinterpreted.
Whitework holds a “special place” within the cultural geography of textile making, connecting regional textile making with broader narratives of American women’s lives, political participation, and self-expression during the formative years of the Early Republic.
What is Whitework?
Disregarded for years as an exaggeration of American colonial self-sufficiency or as fancy work made for a future home, recent research has shown that whitework textiles are elaborate both in make and meaning. In make, the textiles are often an elaborate arrangement of intricately stitched motifs expressed in large scale. Some are created as “whole-cloth” quilts from two layers of woven cloth stitched together, typically with a loose cotton filling
21 WKU Students Earn Gilman Scholarship for Study Abroad wku.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wku.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WKU News
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
WKU has released the honors lists for the spring 2021 semester. Full-time undergraduate students with a semester grade-point average of 3.4 to 3.79 are named to the Dean’s List. Students with a GPA of 3.8 to 4.0 are named to the President’s List. Their names are marked with an asterisk ( ).
Senior Aliza Norman Creates Song Adaptation of Lanval for British Literature Course wku.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wku.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.