English Embroidery From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700: 'Twixt Art and Nature - Hardcover

Watt, Melinda; Morrall, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030012967X ISBN 13: 9780300129670

Publisher: Bard Center, 2009

Synopsis

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, some 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 and comprehensive overview of embroidery during this tumultuous period in English history.

About this title

About the Author:

Melinda Watt is assistant curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Andrew Morrall is professor, Bard Graduate Center. He specializes in Early Modern Northern European fine and applied arts.

Review:

“. . . has energized what was . . . a dormant subject. . . . It offers new insight into the role of women in the decorative arts . . . [A] scholarly work; it includes a table of chronological English constitutional history, and for embroiderers the essential glossary of stitches.” — Esther Fitzgerald, Selvedge (Esther Fitzgerald Selvedge)

About this edition

• Publisher: Bard Center
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 030012967X
• ISBN 13: 9780300129670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308