Sailors’ Valentines: Shell Mosaics from Victorian Barbados
Octagonal shell mosaics---colloquially known as sailors' valentines---were produced in a cottage industry by black and brown Barbadian women for the burgeoning Caribbean tourism industry in the Victorian era. As a commercial colonial craft, sailors' valentines have been occluded in...
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| Language: | English |
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Yale University
2023-11-01
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| Series: | British Art Studies |
| Online Access: | https://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/25/shell-mosaics-from-victorian-barbados/ |
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