Book Title

Shaker Cut-and-Fold Booklets: Unfolding the Gift Drawings of Emily Babcock

Authors

Sandra A. Soule

Type of Work

Book

Files

Publication Date

2014

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

City

Clinton, NY, USA

Series

Shaker Studies

ISBN

9781937370107

Abstract

Stark images and inspired messages appear in Shaker cut-and-fold booklets, one of the more unusual forms of gift drawings created in the early 1840s during the Shakers’ internal revival known as Mother’s Work. This study unfolds some of the puzzling aspects of these heavenly communications. The Shaker concept of union is embodied in the mysteriously decorated, interleaved sheets bearing prophetic spiritual messages. New findings about the visionary activities of Emily Babcock point to her as the instrument of these uniquely constructed gift drawings. This volume features full color facsimiles of a number of examples.

97 pages, illustrations

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