1. 19 th C. Women & Textile History The Bad, the Ugly and the Good!

2. Textile Revolution: 1.Happens in 19 th c. (1800s) 2.Is the product of THREE THINGS!

3. #1: Rise in Slavery  Eli Whitney and S. L. Greene invent the Cotton Gin.  Slave numbers skyrocket, from 250,000 in 1800 to 4 million in 1860. 90% of slaves, including women, work in cotton fields.

4. #2 Industrial Revolution  Factories and Factory style work develops, early 1800s  The First Factories make mostly Textiles and Shoes.  Factories at first use almost all female workers (because they can be over-worked and under-waged)

5. Like LOWELL, MA

6. #3 Domesticity  True Womanhood said “real women” were Domestic. Domesticity included housework and child rearing.  NOW: Think Martha Stewart (But be nice– sexism isn’t cool).  Real women were crafty. They crocheted, knitted, etc.  They QUILTED!!!!

7. Quilting as an American Art  Cheap Cotton Available (Female Slaves and Factory workers)  First Sewing Machine introduced 1830s (First Singer Sewing Machine 1851).  Middle Class Women have time and Money. They can afford sewing machines, Fabric and thread.

8. Early Quilt Patterns

9. Nine Patch

10. Whole Cloth

11. Under Ground Rail Road Quilts  Watch /www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmsNGrkbHm4  (Harriet Tubman- Mini Bio)  Peg Shall Demonstrate about the blocks and then you shall make some!