Fashion & virtue : textile patterns and the print revolution, 1520-1620

Publication

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BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library

Name/Title

Fashion & virtue : textile patterns and the print revolution, 1520-1620

Entry/Object ID

NK8809.3.S64 2015

Description

"This Bulletin discusses the Met's extensive collection of Renaissance textile pattern books, used primarily by women to embroider clothes and accessories. The practice of embroidery was seen as a virtuous endeavor, and textile pattern books, published with great frequency from the 1520s onward, were designed to inspire, instruct, and encourage 'beautiful and virtuous women' in this esteemed practice. Straddling the disciplines of early printmaking, ornament design, and textile decoration, these works help shed light on the crucial period when the concept of fashion as a means of distinguishing individual identity became fixed in Western society." -- PUBLISHER

Context

Issued in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 20, 2015-January 10, 2016.

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Carolyn Hahn

Notes

Gift of Carolyn Hahn, August 2022.

Lexicon

Search Terms

pattern books--history, textile design--history--16th century, textile design--history--17th century

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Exhibition catalog

Publication Details

Publication Type

Bulletin

Periodical

Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin

Author

Femke Speelberg, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

Volume/Number/Issue

Vol. 73, No. 2 (Fall 2015)

Publisher

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Place Published

City

New York, NY

Date Published

2015

Notes

Length: 48

General Notes

Note

Part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, fall 2015, volume LXXIII, number 2.

Note Type

Contents

Note

"Things of small price, and great value" -- The print revolution -- Book printing & the age of entrepreneurship -- Ornament as subject -- Introducing the textile pattern book -- Finding form -- Techniques of representation -- Patterns for openwork & lace -- "Painting with the needle" : an art of virtue & virtuosity.