{"id":266,"date":"2010-02-10T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T07:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=266"},"modified":"2010-02-10T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T07:58:07","slug":"more-mountmellick-and-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/02\/10\/more-mountmellick-and-silk\/","title":{"rendered":"more Mountmellick and silk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following on from yesterday<\/a>, Meri<\/a> very kindly sent me the following link to a Brainerd and Armstrong publication which features Mountmellick embroidery in silk. (Just to be clear: Mountmellick embroidery in silk is NOT something I support!!)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/cu31924085658643<\/a>
\nIt starts at about p69, and onwards from there.<\/p>\n

Curiously, this is not the publication I had in the back of my brain. I was remembering one with a name like “Cornelli”. A little internet searching brought up the name “Corticelli Home Needlework”, which later became “Home Needlework Magazine”.<\/p>\n

From what I can tell, the January 1903 edition (and maybe others) of the magazine has some Mountmellick embroidery in it, but as I don’t have a copy, I can’t confirm this.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in the Brainerd publication (marvellous name…!) the treatment of Mountmellick in coloured silk is about as bad as I would have expected. The embroidery plates are black and white, but it seems that had they not been, we would have seen those designs replete in glorious colour… Certainly the instructions say which coloured threads they are suggesting that the unsuspecting embroiderer should use. They do also say that you can use their plain white Mountmellick silk, but that doesn’t seem to be their preferred option.<\/p>\n

What on earth made those people think that it should be done in coloured silk? Surely that means it is not Mountmellick embroidery anymore, considering that some of the defining characteristics of Mountmellick embroidery are that it is white embroidery using cotton thread?<\/p>\n

Yes, yes, I know the answer: they wanted to cash in on the popularity of Mountmellick embroidery, at the same time as selling more of their (undoubtedly lovely) silk.<\/p>\n

I have said it before, and will say it again:
\nWhile I love Mountmellick embroidery and I love working with silk, I keep those two loves separate.<\/p>\n

Also, the designs themselves are NOT typical of Mountmellick embroidery, showing very stylised plant forms and ridiculously complicated scalloped edges. The designs were available stamped on white damask fabric, which is completely the wrong sort of fabric; it should have been white cotton satin jean. Wrong wrong wrong!<\/p>\n

Right-eo, I will now step down off the soapbox once again. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

JTG6GF37P85T<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following on from yesterday, Meri very kindly sent me the following link to a Brainerd and Armstrong publication which features Mountmellick embroidery in silk. (Just to be clear: Mountmellick embroidery in silk is NOT something I support!!)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/cu31924085658643 It starts at about p69, and onwards from there.<\/p>\n

Curiously, this is not the publication I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-mountmellick-embroidery","category-whitework","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}