British Printed Textiles of the 1970S a Material Culture Study
British Printed Textiles of the 1970s A Material Culture Study A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Natasha Ann Thoreson IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Advisor Barbara E. Martinson, Ph.D. December 2016 Copyright © 2016 by Natasha Ann Thoreson. Acknowledgements A sincere and humble thank you to all the people who helped me with this paper. Thank you to my advisor Barbara Martinson and all the faculty who served on my various committees over the years: Gail Dubrow, Marilyn DeLong, Karen LaBat, Jean McElvain, and Stephanie Zollinger. Thank you to my writing group: Leigh Gleason, Reva Main, and Diana Rose. Thank you to the kind British archivists who helped me with my research: Alexia Kirk, Victoria Platt, Kimberley Smith, Nicholas Smith, Deborah Sutherland, Sarah Westbury, Eva White, Lesley Whitworth, and Sally Williams. Thank you to my many colleagues, mentors, and professors at the Goldstein Museum of Design, Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Leslie Bellais, Terry Boyd, Marilyn Bruin, Kathleen Campbell, Caitlin Cohn, Laura DeBiaso, Holly Easland, Marj Ford-Sethna, Charisse Gendron, Laureen Gibson, Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Sherry Harlacher, Eunice Haugen, Joe Horse Capture, Carolyn Jenkinson, Kim Johnson, Charleen Klarquist, Curt Lund, Clare Moran, Rebekah Njaa, Jennifer Komar Olivarez, Roberto Rengel, Eike Schmidt, Mark Schultz, Ann Sisel, Meaghan Tongen, Anne-Marie Wagener, Gabriel Weisberg, and JuanJuan Wu. i Thank you to my friends and family who cheered me on, especially Jeremy Benedict, Melody Boeser, Katherine Buenger, Sarah Connor, Naomi Farabee, Luann Freitag, Candy Helget, Erika Holmquist-Wall, Callie Hutchinson, Kim Laughter, Adam Roberts, Mary O’Rourke, Chauntae Ruppe, Donna Seys, George Seys, Elizabeth Spear, Angie Thoreson, Brent Thoreson, Courtney Wilder, and Bill Wittenbreer.
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