English embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700 : 'twixt art and nature

Book

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BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library

Name/Title

English embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700 : 'twixt art and nature

Entry/Object ID

NK9243.W38 2008

Description

"This book centers around the Metropolitan Museum of Art's preeminent collection of embroidered objects from England's late Tudor and Stuart eras. These seventeenth-century embroideries, over eighty works in all, include samplers, gloves, headgear, purses, raised-work panels, boxes and mirrors, portrait miniatures, lavishly embroidered Bibles, and a spectacular burse made to hold the Great Seal of England. In a series of essays, the book explores the important role of embroidery in the history of textiles and decorative arts and also offers new insight into the role of women in the production of decorative arts. Expert scholars discuss embroidered furnishings, fashion accessories, biblical narratives, and pastoral imagery to create a superb, comprehensive overview of embroidery during this tumultuous period in English history." -- BOOK JACKET

Context

Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decortive Arts, Design, and Culture from Dec. 11, 2008-April 12, 2009.

Lexicon

Search Terms

embroidery--england--history--16th century, embroidery--england--history--17th century, embroidery--exhibitions, museum catalogs

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Exhibition catalog

Book Details

Author

Andrew Morrall, Melinda Watt

Publisher

Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts

Place Published

City

New York

Date Published

2008

ISBN

9780300129670, 030012967X

LCCN

2008022112

Notes

Length: 308

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

Foreword / Susan Weber -- Preface / Philippe de Montebello -- Introduction / Andrew Morrall and Melinda Watt -- Chronology of English Constitutional history, 1558-1702 -- Collecting English domestic embroidery / Melinda Watt -- Embroidered furnishings: questions of production and usage / Kathleen Staples -- "An instrument of profit, pleasure and of ornament": embroidered Tudor and Jacobean dress accessories / Susan North -- Embroidered Biblical narratives and their social context / Ruth Geuter -- Regaining Eden: representations of nature in seventeenth-century English embroidery / Andrew Morrall -- Materials and techniques of secular embroideries / Cristina Balloffet Carr -- Catalogue of the exhibition : The royal image ; Embroidery and education ; Accessories of dress ; Interior furnishings ; Biblical subjects ; Nature and pastoral imagery -- Stitch glossary.