With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nicole Nehrig wool CHAPTER FIVE: TEXTURE

CHAPTER FIVE: TEXTURE

As an orphan living on New Moon Farm

"Slow steps--shuffle

textured illustrations take on the look of heavily outlined block prints

Tiffany Yecke Brooks is the lead or contributing author on more than two dozen books

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nicole Nehrig wool CHAPTER FIVE: TEXTUREKnitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely "women's work" and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience. Yet, as psychologist and avid knitter Nicole Nehrig wonderfully explores in this captivating book, textile work has often been a way for women to exercise power. When their voices were silenced and other avenues were closed off to them, women used the