This book centers around the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s preeminent collection of embroidered objects from England’s late Tudor and Stuart eras. These seventeenth-century embroideries, some eighty works in all, include samplers, gloves, headgear, purses, raised work panels, boxes and mirrors, portrait miniatures, lavishly embroidered Bibles, and a spectacular burse made to hold the Great Seal of England. In a series of essays the book explores the important role of embroidery in the history of textiles and decorative arts and also offers new insight into the role of women in the production of decorative arts. Expert scholars discuss embroidered furnishings, fashion accessories, biblical narratives, and pastoral imagery, to create a superb and comprehensive overview of embroidery during this tumultuous period in English history.
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“. . . has energized what was . . . a dormant subject. . . . It offers new insight into the role of women in the decorative arts . . . [A] scholarly work; it includes a table of chronological English constitutional history, and for embroiderers the essential glossary of stitches.” — Esther Fitzgerald, Selvedge
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Melinda Watt is assistant curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Andrew Morrall is professor, Bard Graduate Center. He specializes in Early Modern Northern European fine and applied arts.
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Exceptional presentation of extraordinary objects!,
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This review is from: English Embroidery in the Metropolitan Museum 1580-1700: 'Twixt Art and Nature (Published in Association with the Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture) (Hardcover)
Any catalog of this exhibition of 85 seldom-seen items from the Met's vast textile collection would be an essential addition to any collection of books about embroidery, but this is far more than a simple list of items. In addition to clear photographs and descriptions of each piece, there are six well-written essays which discuss such varied topics as the significance of specific Biblical episodes in the context of the English Civil War and the role of highly embroidered items in Jacobean society. The specific techniques which made possible the remarkable depth and textural complexity of these embroideries are revealed in a sequence of highly enlarged photographs which are simply breathtaking. Not to be missed!
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If you are a history or stitch addict this book is for you. The history from 1500 - 1700 in these incredible pieces is worth the price besides the amazing pictures.What a great book worth every penny. A must for stitcher a library!
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fabulous photography,
By Yvette Stanton "Step-by-step embroidery author" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: English Embroidery in the Metropolitan Museum 1580-1700: 'Twixt Art and Nature (Published in Association with the Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture) (Hardcover)
This was an expensive book that I ummed and aahed about purchasing. But on receiving it, I could see what the fuss was all about. Many textiley, embroidery people are very visual people, and I was thrilled to see the quantity and quality of colour photos in this book. Some of them are very close-up so that you can see wonderful details in the embroidery. I still haven't actually read the text - but that's not why I bought it! The photos just enthrall me.
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