Let’s begin Monday off with an fascinating little little bit of studying!
I discover previous needlework books fascinating and inspirational, and I’m at all times grateful for the a number of on-line sources that provide entry to obscure and onerous to seek out public area works from previous eras of needlework historical past.
My good friend Margaret (at The Sharp Needler) despatched alongside a couple of publications she’s lately come throughout in her on-line explorations. She nerds out the identical approach I do on these previous writings!
I dove into one of many books and was vastly diverted. I believed I’d share it with you at this time.
Designing for Artwork Needlework (the hyperlink will take you to the itemizing on Web Archive) springs from a really particular and relatively quick lived period of needlework historical past encompassing the final a number of a long time of the 1800’s and the primary couple of the 1900’s, particularly right here within the the US. This was the period of “Society Silk.”
Within the late 1870’s Candace Wheeler established The Society of Ornamental Artwork right here within the US, which established a cottage trade all through the US and Canada, whereby ladies had the chance to work at home to herald much-needed, post-Civil Battle revenue by way of needlework.
The ladies embroidered effective family linens with silk floss, creating tablecloths and different family ornamental accents.
The entire motion lasted till about 1912, so this specific guide, Designing for Artwork Needlework (printed in 1915), is a little bit behind the instances for Society Silk, but it surely nonetheless falls within the common period and magnificence of artwork needlework that was typical in the course of the first a part of the 1900’s.
It’s a really fascinating guide on design, I believe. Would all approaches in it apply to designing for at this time’s viewers? Not essentially – however there are good ideas in it which might be price looking at!
There are additionally some enjoyable plates of sew directions – which is sensible, as a result of you’ll be able to’t actually design for embroidery should you don’t have at the very least a primary understanding of the varieties of stitches employed in embroidery.
I hope you benefit from the guide! Cautious, although! Web Archive is usually a actual rabbit gap in terms of shopping by way of previous needlework publications!
