Early American Textile Mending and Repair Work with Emily Whitted
In this episode of Historians & Their Histories, we learn about an overlooked element of the textile industry in early American society. Emily Whitted, a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, discusses the practice of mending and repair work on various textiles throughout eighteenth century America. Emily also discusses the similarities between and difficulties of using both material culture and manuscript pieces for this project.
Emily Whitted is a recipient of the Louis Leonard Tucker Alumni Fellowship from the MHS and a fellowship from the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium.
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Episode Special Guest:
Emily Whitted is a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her dissertation investigates early American material histories of textile repair and maintenance within homes, ships, and military camps. She also holds an M.A. in American Material Culture from the Winterthur Program at the University of Delaware.
This episode uses materials from:
Colocate by Podington Bear (Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported)
