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Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women's Geographical Education (Paperback)
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Stitching the World: Embroidered Maps and Women's Geographical Education (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Historical Geography
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From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in
the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map
samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made
and although American examples are more rare, they form a
significant collection of artefacts. Descriptions of these samplers
stated that they were designed to teach needlework and geography.
The focus of this book is not on stitches and techniques used in
'drafting' the maps, but rather why they were developed, how they
diffused from the British Isles to the United States, and why they
were made for such a brief time. The events of the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries stimulated an explosion of interest
in geography. The American and French Revolutions, the wars between
France and England, the War of 1812, Captain Cook's voyages, and
the explorations of Lewis and Clark made the study of places
exciting and important. Geography was the first science taught to
girls in school. This period also coincided with major changes in
educational theories and practices, especially for girls, and this
book uses needlework maps and globes to chart a broader discussion
of women's geographic education. In this light, map samplers and
embroidered globes represent a transition in women's education from
'accomplishments' in the eighteenth century to challenging
geographic education and conventional map drawing in schools and
academies of the second half of the nineteenth century. There has
been little serious study of these maps by cartographers and,
moreover, historians of cartography have largely neglected the role
of women in mapping. Children's maps have not been studied,
although they might have much to offer about geographical teaching
and perceptions of a period, and map samplers have been dismissed
because they are the work of schoolgirls. Needlework historians,
likewise, have not done in depth studies of map samplers until
recently. Stitching the World is an interdisciplinary work drawing
on cartography, needlework, and material culture. This book for the
first time provides a critical analysis of these artefacts, showing
that they offer significant insights into both eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century geographic thought and cartography in the USA
and the UK and into the development of female education.
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