{"id":112,"date":"2009-03-04T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=112"},"modified":"2009-03-04T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:06:00","slug":"book-review-twixt-art-and-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2009\/03\/04\/book-review-twixt-art-and-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: "Twixt Art and Nature""},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309480797935955138\"<\/a>I recently bought a copy of “English Embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700: Twixt Art and Nature”<\/p>\n

This is a gorgeous hefty book – 308 pages! It is actually an exhibition<\/a> catalogue from the exhibition of the same name currently on at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture<\/a> in New York, until 12 April 2009.<\/p>\n

Firstly there is a series of essays on aspects of English embroidery. Following that, there is the actual catalogue section, showing the articles on display in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

The photos (all 280 of them, with the majority in colour) are magnificent – and that’s always what I’m after in any embroidery book. There are photos of complete objects, but also really good quality, lovely close-ups of details of the embroideries.<\/p>\n

The styles of embroidery include goldwork, counted thread samplers, needlelace samplers, stumpwork, blackwork, Elizabethan embroidery. There are articles of clothing, such as jackets, hats and gloves. There is also a section of furnishings like boxes, cushions, chair covers and even embroidered picture frames (I used to work as a picture framer while at uni, but never came across anything like these!). There are sweetbags, wall panels, valances, and book covers.<\/p>\n

Even if you never read a word, there is SO much to look at in this book. I highly recommend it. Copies can be purchased from Yale University Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And if you’re lucky enough to be in New York, there is actually a lecture entitled “The Needle’s Excellency: Tudor and Stuart Embroidery in British and American Collections” on in conjunction with this exhibition TONIGHT! Reservations are required, so you’ll have to get in quick! (For your sake, I hope that its not fully booked already!) More information can be found at the Bard Center website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, if any of you lovely readers happen to go to this, I want to know about it! ‘Fess up and tell all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently bought a copy of “English Embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700: Twixt Art and Nature”<\/p>\n

This is a gorgeous hefty book – 308 pages! It is actually an exhibition catalogue from the exhibition of the same name currently on at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-elizabethan-embroidery","category-goldwork","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}