Carol Quarini
Biographic Data
| ID | 7829167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Quarini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Quarini |
| SIGNATURE | QUARINI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | ORCID |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2236-2278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Domestic Trauma
One result of the public health quarantine measures resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic has been an increase in the incidence of domestic abuse against women. This practice-based interdisciplinary research paper considers the domestic trauma resulting from confinement, coercion and control within the home and textile responses to it. It aims to highlight these domestic concerns, challenge attitudes about coercive control and provoke discussion. …
Early Twentieth-Century Nottingham Lace Curtains
This paper demonstrates the extent to which the lace curtain industry in Britain in the early twentieth century differentiated in the consumer market to produce the ‘ideal window furnishing’ for a range of social groups. It is based on research into three archives of Nottingham lace curtains and illustrated catalogues produced by the manufacturers and sales outlets. The differentiation is manifest in the curtain sizes, styles, patterns and prices…
Neo-Victorianism, Feminism, and Lace
This practice-based, interdisciplinary research focuses on the life and work of Amy Atkin, who claimed to be the first female Nottingham machine-lace designer. This study contextualizes her work within the framework of other early female British art students. Constrained by domesticity, like many other middle-class women in the early twentieth century, she had to relinquish paid work on marriage. The waste of talent resulting from this requiremen…
Lace Unarchived
The Domestic Veil
In this practice-based research the net curtain embodies Freud’s uncanny as the point of slippage between the homely and the unhomely. In this liminal role the net curtain is used to reconsider women’s equivocal experience of home as sanctuary and prison, based on tropes from Victorian gothic novels, but with contemporary parallels. Considered as a domestic veil the net curtain is a metonym for the trapped heroine in those nineteenth-century, got…
Unravelling the Battle of Britain Lace Panel
The Battle of Britain commemorative lace panel was made by Dobson & Browne between 1942 and 1946 to commemorate the famous air battle that was a pivotal moment in World War II. It is a huge piece of machine-made lace measuring 180 × 65 inches (450 × 163 cm). This paper considers the collaborative nature of the endeavor and aims to reveal some of the hidden heritage behind the lace. It also considers the myths that have grown up around the product…
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Lace Unarchived
The Domestic Veil
In this practice-based research the net curtain embodies Freud’s uncanny as the point of slippage between the homely and the unhomely. In this liminal role the net curtain is used to reconsider women’s equivocal experience of home as sanctuary and prison, based on tropes from Victorian gothic novels, but with contemporary parallels. Considered as a domestic veil the net curtain is a metonym for the trapped heroine in those nineteenth-century, got…
Unravelling the Battle of Britain Lace Panel
The Battle of Britain commemorative lace panel was made by Dobson & Browne between 1942 and 1946 to commemorate the famous air battle that was a pivotal moment in World War II. It is a huge piece of machine-made lace measuring 180 × 65 inches (450 × 163 cm). This paper considers the collaborative nature of the endeavor and aims to reveal some of the hidden heritage behind the lace. It also considers the myths that have grown up around the product…
Neo-Victorianism, Feminism, and Lace
This practice-based, interdisciplinary research focuses on the life and work of Amy Atkin, who claimed to be the first female Nottingham machine-lace designer. This study contextualizes her work within the framework of other early female British art students. Constrained by domesticity, like many other middle-class women in the early twentieth century, she had to relinquish paid work on marriage. The waste of talent resulting from this requiremen…
Early Twentieth-Century Nottingham Lace Curtains
This paper demonstrates the extent to which the lace curtain industry in Britain in the early twentieth century differentiated in the consumer market to produce the ‘ideal window furnishing’ for a range of social groups. It is based on research into three archives of Nottingham lace curtains and illustrated catalogues produced by the manufacturers and sales outlets. The differentiation is manifest in the curtain sizes, styles, patterns and prices…
Domestic Trauma
One result of the public health quarantine measures resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic has been an increase in the incidence of domestic abuse against women. This practice-based interdisciplinary research paper considers the domestic trauma resulting from confinement, coercion and control within the home and textile responses to it. It aims to highlight these domestic concerns, challenge attitudes about coercive control and provoke discussion. …
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