In a message dated 9/22/2012 9:48:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, hottleco writes: Also worth a mention-- http://needleprintmirrortomyart.blogspot.co.uk Twenty finalists are posted & several incorporate lace, including #15 & #16. ------------------------------------------------- Dear Lacemakers: I've been meaning to respond to this note (above) from Susan. The U.K. publisher, Needleprints, is a favorite of mine. Though their books can be expensive, every illustrated page has (when possible) full-size color photographs. And a lot of educational content. Hardbacks. They are well proofread -- not a frustrating mess of misspellings and grammar errors so often seen today, even in expensive books. What I find reassuring is that if a embroidery (this includes needlelace) is signed/dated, scholars are digging into archives of patterns, sales records, estate inventories, etc. The contemporary use of community data bases, especially in England, is resulting in a lot of new documentation leading to the provenance of signed/dated embroidered pieces, usually samplers. The very fine needlework (embroidery) using silks and metal threads (including stumpwork - which some scholars now call "detached needlepoint") was made by girls and women who - from the 1600s forward - often had some basic reading and writing lessons. Some of the best needlework stayed in the historic properties where they were made centuries ago, along with family portraits. Hardwick Hall - where Santina Levey has done so much research, is an example. As to Needleprint, the publisher: You saw two books in the right column of their web page. They are simply wonderful! "The Goodhart Samplers" is a collection at Montacute House, England. This is a National Trust Property, and when I visited I saw quite a variety of samplers and needlework, plus a fabulous portrait of Bess of Hardwick was in a gallery on the top floor. I reviewed the Goodhart book on Arachne Nov. 26, 2009. Put Goodhart Samplers in the search box at: _http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/index.html_ (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/index.html) The other book is: "The Needlework Collection: 1 (the collection of Micheal and Elizabeth Feller). In the U.S., I was able to get this from Ruth Kern, Phoenix, the book supplier at Embroiderers' Guild of America seminars. It was $85, published in 2011. I thought some of you might like to know that volume 2 is expected to be available this month. Ruth sent out a notice to her customers that it will include 400 samplers, plus pinballs, pockets, huswifs (little needleworked holders for needlework tools: needles, scissors, etc.). Some of you collect both lace and embroidery, and the books on historic needlework from Needleprint often show and document both. You could try to borrow these books from guilds to which you belong, or through Interlibrary Loan, a program available in many countries at community, college and university libraries. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center
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