Textile Talks
Drop-In Gam is now featuring Textile Talks each month!
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Join us February 27 & 28 for a 2-day class making decorative marble papers using traditional tools that have been used for over 200 years.
On the second day, we will learn how to put them to use by making marble paper folios - great for keeping papers and artwork clean and flat!
Sign up for this workshop at NHA.org or using this link 🔗 https://nha.org/learn/decorative-arts/courses/marbled-papers-fancy-folios/
#nantucket #decarts #marblepaper #decorativearts
LOOK CLOSE 👀 shown in this colorized photograph is a weather vane previously installed on top of this home at 8 Quince Street in the early 20th-century.
Swipe over to check out this beautifully carved wooden weather vane, now on display in the Decorative Arts Gallery in the Whaling Museum.
Carved weathervane
NHA purchase, 2024.26.7
Colorized photo of Quince St.
by H. Marshall Gardiner
Gift of Jason Tilroe, 2024.8003.1
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Check out our past lecture with Author Constance Escher, as she discusses her book about a formerly enslaved woman named Betsey Stockton who circumnavigated the globe in 1826.
She shares the research that shaped the book, including several research trips to the NHA Research Library. Specifically, Escher examines early portraits of missionaries and details on the captain of Stockton’s ship, Reuben Clasby, from Nantucket.
While examining material from the NHA archive, Constance discovered findings on the Essex survivor Charles Ramsdell, who served as boat-steerer on Stockton’s ship. These visits to the Research Library, made over twenty years, allowed Escher to unravel another important puzzle of Nantucket’s history and to publish her book on Betsey Stockton titled “She Calls Herself Betsey Stockton: The Illustrated Odyssey of Princeton Slave.”
Catch the entire lecture on our YouTube channel - link in bio or by visiting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWPm63zXJyo&list=PLjgJVmnztYsTqYVn_ijBhCGxA5-7DMtGw&index=28
#nantucket #ackhistory #nantucketisland #nantuckethistoricalassociation #blackhistory #bhm #blackhistorymonth #womenshistory
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