Category: Women’s History

Refined by: (Author) Stephanie Hall; (Year) 2017

A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

Teaching the Japanese Tea Ceremony: Mine Somi Kubose

May 10, 2017

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism—Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts …

Posted in: Asian American History, Beliefs, Foodways, Japanese Americans, Religion, Women's History

From Thread to Fabric to Art

March 29, 2017

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Before the industrial era, much of the work of the creation of clothing was done at home or at small shops. Spinning was a daily activity. Depending on one’s culture, the production of thread and yarn might be entirely women’s work, or work done by the whole family. In northern Europe, spinning was so closely …

Posted in: Folksong, Material Culture, Narratives, Oral History, Textiles, Women's History

Refined by: (Author) Stephanie Hall; (Year) 2017