Embroidered stories : interpreting women's domestic needlework from the Italian diaspora

Embroidered stories : interpreting women's domestic needlework from the Italian diaspora /

"For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and cro...

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Other Authors: Giunta, Edvige (Editor), Sciorra, Joseph (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014
Subjects:
Needlework > Italy.
Women and the decorative arts > Italy.
Italians > Foreign countries > Ethnic identity.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central

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