Devon, I did a quick Google search and found one in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia. It's English, needle lace, linen, silk, and human hair.
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=183127 I also found a site on artistic depictions of Judith and Holofernes, although it's probably not relevant for your piece, which is very stylized. http://bjws.blogspot.com/2010/10/judith-and-holofernes.html Avital On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:04 AM, <dmt11h...@aol.com> wrote: > I am researching a piece of lace depicting the story of Judith and > Holofernes and I wondered if anyone had seen other laces with this theme. > Also of > interest would be embroideries depicting a chronological progression of the > story as exists in the lace. > I know of laces showing Judith and Holofernes that are in the Metropolitan > Museum of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt, the V & A (a lace picture), also one > depicted in the Subversive Stitch in the Fitzwilliam museum (a cutwork). I > have > been told there is one in St. Gallen and would be interested to hear more > about it. > Of particular interest would be discovering the source of the design. > _http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp?command=text&datascope=all&attr1 > =09.68.90_ -- Blog: http://apinnick.wordpress.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
