Double issue (Vol. 66, Nos. 1 & 2, 1983) of the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club with two illustrated articles. Patricia Wardle's study of seventeenth-century Holland examines professional linen seamstresses (linnennaaisters), their pay and working conditions, orphanage training, sewing-schools, and the whitework, samplers, bed linen and bobbin lace they produced, with notes and many plates. Marianne Carlano's article describes the Henri Clouzot collection of printed textiles at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, focusing on early Dutch printed fabrics, French toiles from Jouy, and English roller-printed pieces. The issue ends with author notes, book notes (including a review on Flemish and French tapestries in Hungary), club notes, and an In Memoriam list.

Type

Periodical

Date

1983

Language

English

Pages

58