'Embroidery Most Sumptuously Wrought'; Dutch Embroidery Designs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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An article by Patricia Wardle on a seventeenth-century book of about 110 embroidery designs in the Print Room of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The designs cover stomachers, sleeves, gloves, caps, purses, knife-cases, pincushions and sword belts. Wardle dates the book to about 1626-38 and argues it is Dutch, by comparing the designs with embroidery in Dutch portraits by Hals, Mierevelt, Moreelse and others and with surviving gloves and purses. She also discusses fashion and sumptuary criticism, the chatelaine, black-embroidered caps, and the relationship between embroiderers and pattern-drawers. Many plates show pattern-book pages, portraits and surviving objects, and footnotes follow the text.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1986
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 43
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