The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 52, Nos. 1 & 2 (1969)
Double issue (Vol. 52, Nos. 1 & 2) of the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, 1969. It contains Luba Gurdus's study of a newly discovered epitaphios (embroidered Orthodox funeral cloth) attributed to the Serbian artist Christopher Zefarovic, with comparison to epitaphioi by Despoineta and Theodosia Kasymbouri. Margaret T. J. Rowe examines textile fragments from the tomb of an unknown bishop at Saint Denis, including knitted silk gloves and tablet-woven silver-gilt bands. Marguerite Dubuisson's French-language article surveys medieval knitting (bonneterie) through surviving socks, gloves, mittens and cushion covers. The issue ends with a book note on William Justema's The Pleasures of Pattern, club notes, an obituary section and a list of officers.
- Type
- Periodical
- Date
- 1969
- Languages
- English, French
- Pages
- 51