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PieceWork, November/December 2002
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Articles
- Animals from the Nowotny Collection- The Nowotny Shop in Vienna, Austria, purveyors of needlework supplies for nearly 200 years, has a strong record of commissioning leading designers to create original patterns. A collection of some of these historic charts, excerpted from Raffaella Serena's Animal Embroideries and Patterns from 19th Century Vienna, are presented here. For information on how to win a copy of Animal Embroideries and Patterns from 19th Century Vienna, see page 26. (Raffaella Serena)
- Plush-Stitch Animals- The plush stitch was a popular means of creating raised, sculpted embroidery in Berlin woolwork during the mid-nineteenth century. Three animal embroideries from the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, Behring Center, are fine examples of this technique. (Sheryl De Jong)
- The Cattley Animals- The Cattley children of Ealing, a London suburb, had a collection of stuffed animals, including nine bears, three rabbits, a dog, and an elephant named Pumpie, which they clothed and treated as members of the family. In the l970s, the last surviving Cattley sibling donated the collection, along with watercolor paintings of the animals, to the Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green. (Deborah Pulliam)
- Lacy Griffins, Tigers, Bears, and Peacocks- Some of the earliest surviving pieces of lace are neither delicate nor floral but depict animals and mythical beasts often adapted from illustrations in medieval bestiaries or German and Italian pattern books from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (Elaine Merritt)
- Enchanting Half Dolls- During the mid-nineteenth century, molded porcelain, bisque, plaster, wood, wax, papier-mâché, and composition-compound half dolls fitted with gathered fabric skirts were used to protect powder puffs and clothes brushes or serve as pincushions. Well-preserved examples can be worth hundreds of dollars to collectors today. (Mary Polityka Bush)
- Reflections on Fashion, Dolls, and the Art of Growing Up- An exhibition of the same name at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, explores the importance of dolls and fashion in the development of young girls over the past 200 years. This is the first of two articles by the curators of the exhibition. (Deborah E. Kraak and Barbara C. Abrams)
- Victorian Life and Knitting- The Weldon's Practical Needlework series contains not only a glimpse of the fashions and needlework techniques of the Victorian period but also insights into late-nineteenth-century social concerns and attitudes. (Carol Huebscher Rhoades)
Projects
- A Perforated Paper Box to Cross-Stitch- This project is one of twenty-four projects designed by Ann Caswell for Stitching a Legacy: American Needlework Projects and Stories. Hand-dyed silk threads bring the butterfly motif on this box to life.
- Pretty Cuffs to Knit- These cuffs, adapted by Carol Huebscher Rhoades from "Weldon's Practical Knitter, 15th Series" in Weldon's Practical Needlework, Volume 5, are knitted with cashmere and silk yarn to provide warmth and comfort on cold winter days.
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