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Updated links on the slide listing...
Also, I updated my entry on the Slide List from From Old London to New London with a few more links to items and museums. -
Artful Adornments
Pam Parmal, the David and Roberta Logie Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts, Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston
Artful Adornments: The Embroidered Accessories of Eighteenth-Century Boston Schoolgirls
Boston girls in the 18th Cent were often boarded into their later teens.
Madame Turfrey, in the South end of Boston, Sept-Oct 1706 placed an ad in the Boston ( Read more... ) -
Slide List: Tracing Needlework Patterns
From Old London to New London: Tracing Needlework Patterns and Skills in Early America
Susan P. Schoelwer, Curator, George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Winterthur Needlework Conference, October 2011
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Tracing Needlework Patterns and Skills in Early America
Dr. Susan P. Schoelwer, Curator at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate
From Old London to New London: Tracing Needlework Patterns and Skills in Early America
Took a look specifically at Connecticut embroideries, in certain styles:
Decorated Bed Rugs, 1770-1810
Norwich embroidered canvas works
Norwich samplers
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Hallowe'en weekend
Had quite the Halloween weekend. Friday night was dinner at Sabatino's and then dancing out at Club Orpheus with attack_laurel and lisettelaroux. The plan was to go Steam Punk, but my skirt plan fell flat so I improvised.
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It's All About the Clothes
Here are my scribbled notes from the lecture by Jill M. Hall, Co-Manager of the Jacket Project and Scholar of Historical Costume on It’s All About the Clothes
Trying to place the jacket in context. Susan Vincent in her Dressing the Elite says that looking for evidence of embroidered jackets is like “looking for salt in the sea” in that it is ( Read more... ) -
Listening to the Makers
Here are my scribbled notes from the lecture given by Dr. Tricia Wilson Nguyan, Owner of Thistle Threads
on The Plimoth Jacket: Listening to the Makers
Pattern:
Started looking at the master pattern used on the jacket. A panel in the Royal School of Needlework collection, the 1359-1900 embroidered jacket at the V&A, and possibly a nightcap in ( Read more... ) -
Winterthur in Fall
So much to see, and so much to do, but I did manage to squeeze in 45 minutes to run around the Enchanted Woods, and poke around a lovely glade/grotto with a series of koi ponds and waterfalls. So lovely in the Fall colors. You can see that set of pictures on Flickr.
But here are some of my favorites:
Peeking at the Faerie Cottage across the Gathering ( Read more... ) -
With Cunning Needle
I uploaded and annotated my pictures from the With Cunning Needle exhibit currently on display at Winterthur. I wish I had gotten better ones of the sweet bag and knife sheath, but I also wish they didn't have the tag for the bag hanging down over the embroidery. You can see the entire set of pictures on Flickr, but here are some of my favorites:
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Needlework Conference
Oh. Hai there. Sorri it haz been so long...
Took a couple of days to go to the Needlework Conference at Winterthur this Friday and Saturday. My sweetie agreed to it as an early birthday present. He's awesome. I also got to see the With Cunning Needle exhibit of four centuries of needlework in conjunction with the conference. Particularly interesting ( Read more... )
