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Describes the social and cultural significance of pins, needles, thimbles, scissors, and other sewing accessories and tools. Through the stories that grow out of the archaeological findings, this book shows the extent to which such 'small things' were entrenched in the construction of gender, personal identity, and social class.

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"In Findings, Beaudry offers for the first time a scholarly, theoretically enriched and historically situated guide to the needlework and sewing tools of the British isles and North America. She employs these ‘small finds’ to write 'large histories.'"—Lu Ann De Cunzo, Professor of Anthropology and Early American Culture, University of Delaware

-- Lu Ann De Cunzo

"Comprehensive in its time and geographic scale in a way that is rarely attempted in our field. The work is extraordinarily sound and original scholarship."—Laurie Wilkie, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley

-- Laurie Wilkie

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/31/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780300110937, 978-0300110937
      ISBN10: 0300110936
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Describes the social and cultural significance of pins, needles, thimbles, scissors, and other sewing accessories and tools. Through the stories that grow out of the archaeological findings, this book shows the extent to which such 'small things' were entrenched in the construction of gender, personal identity, and social class.

      Trade Review

      "In Findings, Beaudry offers for the first time a scholarly, theoretically enriched and historically situated guide to the needlework and sewing tools of the British isles and North America. She employs these ‘small finds’ to write 'large histories.'"—Lu Ann De Cunzo, Professor of Anthropology and Early American Culture, University of Delaware

      -- Lu Ann De Cunzo

      "Comprehensive in its time and geographic scale in a way that is rarely attempted in our field. The work is extraordinarily sound and original scholarship."—Laurie Wilkie, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley

      -- Laurie Wilkie

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