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Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags (Science.Culture)
Hanna Rose Shell
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Description for Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags (Science.Culture)
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You know shoddy: an adjective meaning cheap and likely poorly made. But did you know that before it became a popular descriptor, shoddy was first coined as a noun? In the early nineteenth century, shoddy was the name given to a new textile material made from reclaimed wool. Shoddy was, in fact, one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling as old rags and fabric clippings were ground into "devil's dust" and respun to be used in the making of suits, army uniforms, carpet lining, mattress stuffing, and more. In Shoddy, Hanna Rose Shell takes readers on a ... Read more
You know shoddy: an adjective meaning cheap and likely poorly made. But did you know that before it became a popular descriptor, shoddy was first coined as a noun? In the early nineteenth century, shoddy was the name given to a new textile material made from reclaimed wool. Shoddy was, in fact, one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling as old rags and fabric clippings were ground into "devil's dust" and respun to be used in the making of suits, army uniforms, carpet lining, mattress stuffing, and more. In Shoddy, Hanna Rose Shell takes readers on a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226377759
SKU
9780226377759
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About Hanna Rose Shell
Hanna Rose Shell is associate professor in the Department of Art & Art History, the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts, and the History Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author, most recently, of Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance and a director of the film Secondhand [Pepe].
Reviews for Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags (Science.Culture)
"Shoddy is that rare book that takes you from the direct experiences you share with the author (what to do with your used clothes? the feeling of 'doing good' when you donate them to clothe someone 'less fortunate') to the larger social, economic, historical, and yes, moral universe in which those experiences live. Shell brings gives us this kind of ... Read more