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Author : Judith Allnatt
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007523009
A beautiful and eerie story of love and memory from the author of The Moon Field.
Author : Tash Aw
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007232284
Running an impressive Chinese silk factory in the Malaysian region throughout the first half of the twentieth century, Johnny Lim finds his life complicated by his son's belief that he uses the factory as a front for illegal businesses.
Author : Gail Tsukiyama
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429952293
In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own. Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.
Author : Luca Molà
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801876554
How 16th century Venetian silk manufacturers met the challenge of demand for lighter and cheaper fabric. The manufacture of luxury textiles, such as silk, was central to an Italian Renaissance economy based on status and conspicuous consumption. From the rapidly changing fashions that drove demand to the jobs created for craftsmen, weavers, and merchants, the wealth and prestige associated with silk throughout Europe made it Italy's leading export industry. In this important book, Luca Molà examines the silk industry in Renaissance Venice amid changing markets, suppliers, producers, and government regulations. Drawing on archival research and a vast amount of European scholarship, Molà documents the innovations Venetians made in manufacturing and marketing to spur the silk industry. He uncovers the alliance between manufacturers and government to promote the industry in a changing international economic environment. Through flexible laws, quality was regulated to meet the varying requirements of an increasing range of customers. Molà also analyzes state policy that favored the development and organization of silk producers throughout the Terraferma. His findings contribute in an important way to the ongoing scholarly assessment of Venice's place in the economy of the Renaissance and the Mediterranean world.
Author : Judith Allnatt
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007522965
A poignant story of love and redemption, The Moon Field explores the loss of innocence through a war that destroys everything except the bonds of human hearts.
Author : Kayte Nunn
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780733643262
Weaving. Healing. Haunting. The spellbinding story of a mysterious boarding school sheltering a centuries-old secret... Australian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 150-year history. She is to stay with them in Silk House, a building with a long and troubled past. In the late 1700s, Rowan Caswell leaves her village to work in the home of an English silk merchant. She is thrust into a new and dangerous world where her talent for herbs and healing soon attracts attention. In London, Mary-Louise Stephenson lives amid the clatter of the weaving trade and dreams of becoming a silk designer, a job that is the domain of men. A length of fabric she weaves with a pattern of deadly flowers will have far-reaching consequences for all who dwell in the silk house. Intoxicating, haunting and inspired by the author's background, THE SILK HOUSE is an exceptional gothic mystery. 'The ghostly stories of three women who had all spent time at a mysterious boarding school are beautifully woven together in this spellbinding tale. An exceptional gothic mystery' Woman's Day 'This spellbinding story intertwines three strong, fearless women in the pursuit of fulfilling their dreams' Family Circle 'The stories of three fascinating women weave seamlessly together in this atmospheric book set against the sumptuous backdrop of the eighteenth-century silk trade... a mystery that is so compelling I found myself racing towards the final pages. Utterly spellbinding' NATASHA LESTER **Contains BONUS extract from Kayte's compelling historical mystery, The Only Child**
Author : Judith Allnatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446487891
It is 1841. Patty is married to John Clare: peasant poet, genius and madman. Travelling home one day, Patty finds her husband sitting, footsore, at the side of the road, having absconded from a lunatic asylum over eighty miles away. Hopeful that his condition has improved, she takes his hands in delight but he fails to recognize her. She is devastated to discover that he has not returned home to find her, but to search for his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, to whom he believes he is married. Patty still loves John deeply, but he seems lost to her, obsessed with the idealised image of a woman that she cannot possibly match. Plagued by jealousy, she seeks strength in memories: their whirlwind courtship, the poems John wrote for her, their shared affinity for the land. She must try to heal John's turbulent, unhappy soul and restore him to the man she married. But as John descends further into delusion and his behaviour becomes increasingly volatile, hope seems to be fading. Will she ever be able to conquer her own anger and hurt and reconcile with this man she now barely knows?
Author : Sharon Farmer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812248487
Sharon Farmer analyzes the evidence concerning the medieval silk industry, adding new perspectives to our understanding of medieval French history, luxury trade, labor migration, intercultural exchange, and gendered work.
Author : Andrew Ure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Factory system
ISBN : UOM:39015008164140
Author : Tash Aw
Publisher : Random House
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588369833
From the author of the internationally acclaimed The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent place and time—1960s Indonesia during President Sukarno’s drive to purge the country of its colonial past. A page-turning story, Map of the Invisible World follows the journeys of two brothers and an American woman who are indelibly marked by the past—and swept up in the tides of history.
Author : Sarah S. Kilborne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451671797
Kilborne presents this account of 19th-century millionaire William Skinner, a leading founder of the American silk industry. He lost everything in a devastating flood, but had an inspiring comeback to the top of the business world.
Author : Helena Fairfax
Publisher : Helena Fairfax
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099336151X
Sophie Challoner is a modern-day Cinderella: sensible, hard-working, and a devoted carer of her father. When her grandmother throws a romantic ball for her in Paris, for one wonderful night Sophie forgets her promise to her family and does something reckless she will never forget. Years later, Sophie is reunited with the man she left behind her that evening, and she finds Jean-Luc Olivier is not the glamorous socialite she thought. Jean-Luc is a force to be reckoned with... Praise for The Silk Romance: "Deliciously different... A good story, a believable and charming romance, and utterly delightful." "Alyssa Lynn Palmer reviews" "Unforgettable, powerfully intense and beautifully written" "Caroline Barker, A Reader's Review" "A beautiful love story that deepens with each turn of the page." "Goodreads reviewer" "One of the most well-crafted books I have read." "Ladybug Lin Reviews" ""A lovely dance of give and take, where Lyon and the old city, famed for silk manufacture, become a character in the story itself.""
Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Centennial Exhibition
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0055599036
Author : Madeline Hunter
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420150001
USA Today Bestseller “Stellar…vibrant and witty writing.” – Booklist “Another smart pairing and a genuinely romantic ending.” —Publishers Weekly A sparkling new love story from a historical romance legend, perfect for Bridgerton fans and readers of Sabrina Jeffries, Eloisa James, and Grace Burrowes. In one life-changing windfall, Rosamund Jameson goes from struggling shopkeeper to heiress—and co-owner of a new business. Not only will her sudden fortune allow her to move her millinery shop to fashionable London, but Rosamund will be able to provide her younger sister with a proper entry into society. The only hitch for resourceful Rosamund is her arrogant, infuriatingly handsome business partner... Kevin Radnor is shocked that his late uncle, the Duke of Hollinburgh, bequeathed half his company to a total stranger—worse, a beguiling beauty who can only hinder his enterprise. But Rosamund insists on an active, equal partnership, so Kevin embarks on a plan: a seduction that will lead to a marriage of convenience, giving Rosamund the social status she needs, and guaranteeing him the silent partner he desires. Yet as this charismatic gentleman sets his flirtation in motion, he begins to wonder who is seducing whom—and if he can learn to share himself body and mind, without losing his heart . . . “A book that hooked right into my emotions and gave me what I wanted and needed from a story right now.” —Smart Bitches, Trashy Books “Romance and mystery combine to entertain.” —Fresh Fiction
Author : Carolyn Marsden
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763671914
"A sensitive portrayal of a family in Thailand. . . . This gracefully told story will resonate with many young readers." — Booklist (starred review) Eleven-year-old Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend many rapt hours in the jungle watching as Kun Ya paints delicate silk umbrellas to sell at the market. But one day Kun Ma and Kun Pa announce that Ting must start working at a local radio factory to help support the family. As the days and weeks pass, Noi anxiously sees her own fate reflected in her sister’s constricting world. Can Noi find a way to master her fear of failure and stand up for her gift — and Kun Ya’s tradition — before the future masters her?
