PieceWork, May/June 2002
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Threadwork from the East
Articles
- Threadwork from the East- Dolores Bausum shares some favorite textile treasures from her travels to China and India. (Dolores B. Bausum)
- The Liturgical Textiles of the Order of the Golden Fleece- The vestments and paraments commissioned circa 1425-1440 by Philip the Good, third duke of Burgundy, for his private chapel and now in the collection of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, are among the finest examples of European embroidery ever made. (Ricky Clark)
- The Hair Workers of Sweden- Nineteenth-century "hair workers" traveled throughout Europe and the United States to market their craft, earning as much as forty times the average yearly wage in rural Sweden. People commissioned keepsakes such as jewelry, hair bands, and watch chains made of braided hair. Today, the Swedish association of hair workers is actively promoting the craft. (Nancy Bush)
- Jerusha Pitkin's Embroidered Coat of Arms- This piece would have symbolized the prominence of a wealthy New England family in mid-eighteenth-century Colonial America, but the Pitkin coat of arms was never completed. The maker's descendants carefully preserved the unfinished embroidery in its frame along with many skeins of silk and metallic thread. Differing stitching styles and threads suggest that other family members may have attempted to complete it. (Lynne Zacek Bassett)
- Parsi Trade and Chinese Gara Embroidery- Embroidered crepe de Chine saris of Chinese origin called garas were an important part of a flourishing trade between Chinese artisans and Indian Parsi merchants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Brinda Gill)
- Nineteenth-Century American Women's Collars and Cuffs: Beautiful and Necessary- While wealthy Americans wore expensive European laces, middle-class women of more modest means made cotton collars and cuffs in crochet, knitting, tatting, needle lace, and whitework to keep up with the changing fashions of the mid-l800s. (Nicole H. Scalessa)
Projects
- A Goldwork Pattern to Stitch- Smooth Passing gold is couched with silk thread onto 40-count silk gauze in this elegant design stitched by Linn Skinner, which she adapted from a woodblock in Peter Quentel's Ein New Kunstlich Modelbuchen, published in Cologne, Germany, in 1527.
- Point D'Eglantier Collar to Crochet- Nicole H. Scalessa adapted the design for this lace collar crocheted with fine cotton thread from a pattern that originally appeared in the June 1854 issue of Frank Leslie's Gazette of Fashion.
Item #: P0205
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