Women's Domestic Crafts in Thornaby
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Women's Domestic Crafts in Thornaby
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/036
Creator(s): Schrut, Judith Lynne
Site Location(s): Subject - Thornaby, Stockton on Tees, England, United Kingdom( 54.5333, -1.3 ); Subject - Teesside, Redcar and Cleveland, England, United Kingdom( 54.5667, -1.23333 )
Date(s): 1977
Size and medium: 65 unbound typed leaves, 40; 6 b/w, 13 colour photographs; newspaper/magazine cuttings.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409932
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
M.A. thesis written in four parts. The first provides background material to the study, including introductory remarks, some historical background to women's domestic crafts and a discussion of methodology. The second part concerns fieldwork, and gives a historical, geographic and social background to Thornaby-on-Tees, general information on the range of domestic crafts in Thornaby and the women who do them. This part also focuses on two women as case studies, and includes photographs and excerpts from interviews with them. Part Three analyses the fieldwork, and comments on the women, the community of Thornaby and its geographic, economic and historical peculiarities, the tradition, transmission, manufacture and function of domestic crafts. The final part offers some concluding remarks.
The appendices which accompany the text comprise maps of North Yorkshire, Teesside and Thornaby, information on the informants and their crafts, transcripts of recorded interviews with Brenda Conway and Margaret Postgate, photographs of Thornaby in 1977, some of the informants and items they have made, copies of sample interview questions, correspondence, sample patterns, transfers, magazine and newspaper articles.
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