Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and Beyond, Paperback - Susan Falls

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Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Mihaela MihaiNumber of pages: 312Collection: Cultural Memory in the PresentPublication date: 2022Dim...

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