{"id":9705,"date":"2020-01-10T07:37:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T20:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=9705"},"modified":"2020-01-10T07:37:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T20:37:39","slug":"guild-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2020\/01\/10\/guild-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Guild libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"

I often find that some of my best thinking time is in the early morning when I wish I was still asleep. This morning my mind drifted towards my guild’s excellent library. I have spent time there, trawling through books, particularly trying to identify stitches that I’ve seen on historical works, trying to identify their name (in any language – doesn’t have to be English!)<\/p>\n

I’m a member of the Embroiderers Guild of NSW, and we have an excellent library, with many books on various textile and design related subjects. I have no idea how many books that are in it, but there are many! There are enough to fill a good sized room, with shelving space to grow into. There are desks at which quiet study can be made. This is the main library at the guild headquarters. I expect most of the guild groups also have their own informal book collections too.<\/p>\n

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Photo by mentatdgt from Pexels. (Not of the library at the Embroiderers Guild NSW!)<\/p><\/div>\n

And so I was wondering if you’d like to tell me about your guild’s library. Does it have an excellent selection of books that are a wonderful resource for you? What are its strengths? What do you wish it had that it doesn’t have? Is it easily accessible to members (and non-members)?
\nAre there are guild libraries or textile museum libraries that you’ve visited that you found particularly helpful or of note?<\/p>\n

Just a word of caution: Libraries often hold special and valuable copies of books. I’m not expecting for you to tell me about anything that could cause security issues!<\/p>\n

If you happen to be the librarian or book collection custodian for your guild library, perhaps you would consider contacting me, because I’d love to interview you about your library!<\/p>\n

Some years ago with help from many people, I put together a listing of textile museum collections<\/a> that were searchable online. I’ve found it to be a very useful list that I go back to again and again. If there’s enough interest, perhaps I could put together a textile library list too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I often find that some of my best thinking time is in the early morning when I wish I was still asleep. This morning my mind drifted towards my guild’s excellent library. I have spent time there, trawling through books, particularly trying to identify stitches that I’ve seen on historical works, trying to identify their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-embroidery-stitches","category-exploring-the-needlework-internet","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705","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=9705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9710,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions\/9710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}