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    Towards an Interpretation of Textiles in the Provincial Domestic Interior: Three Homes in the West Midlands, 1780-1848

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    Authors
    Ponsonby, Margaret
    Issue Date
    2007
    
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    This article explores the role of textiles in the home in the later eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The methodology adopted is a response to the difficulties of researching homes in this period when probate inventories had largely ceased to be made. Instead of using quantitative analysis, this essay focuses on three case studies of homes where detailed lists allow speculation on the uses of furnishing textiles in these homes. Three themes are identified: conspicuous consumption, domestic ideology and the possible meanings of stored textiles. These themes are explored using recent cultural theories to provide a framework for analysis. (Ingenta)
    Citation
    Textile History, 38(2): 165 - 178
    Publisher
    Maney Publishing
    Journal
    Textile History
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/27188
    DOI
    10.1179/004049607x240761
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    Journal article
    Language
    en
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    00404969
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    10.1179/004049607x240761
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