In 1851, when theologian Horace Bushnell stood on the village green in Litchfield, Conn., and looked back lovingly on the "Age of Homespun," he was expressing a perennial American nostalgia for the "good old days," when clothing and other necessities were mostly made at home by family labor.
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Between us and the eighteenth century there looms a formidable nineteenth-century mythology that romanticized the colonial era as an "Age of Homespun"—a simpler, happier, and more authentic time when virtuous living and hard work by self-sufficient households produced an almost universal sufficiency,
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Pulling these divergent threads together into a rich and revealing tapestry of "the age of homespun," Ulrich demonstrates how ordinary objects reveal larger economic and social structures, and, in particular, how early Americans and their descendants made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert identities,
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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth. By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. (New York: Knopf, 2001. 501 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-44594-3.) ... The Age of Homespun is a history of women's textile making in New England from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth. As readers of...
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A meticulously researched, fascinating rumination on material culture in the early United States, The Age of Homespun is both an earnest examination of and an intellectual challenge to the nostalgia of Americana.
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