For what it is worth, I got the original e-mail at 12:29pm EST. Thank you for the detailed information. I love reading the Arachne e-mail each and every day.
Cindy from Dallas Ravelry ID:cinhad knittingyards.wordpress.com On Nov 3, 2015, at 3:34 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Devon has had problems posting to Arachne today. Now, I am trying for > her, but it seems that AOL may have me locked out, too. Hope this reaches > our > members! > > Jeri Ames in Maine USA > Lace and Embroidery Resource Center > > > ____________________________________ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: 11/3/2015 4:23:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time > Subj: Fwd: Fashion and Virtue: Texile Patterns and the Print Revolution > 1520-1620 > > > > > ____________________________________ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: 11/3/2015 12:24:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time > Subj: Fashion and Virtue: Texile Patterns and the Print Revolution > 1520-1620 > > > Dear Friends, > Susan Hottle has been kind enough to draw attention to the new exhibit > Fashion and Virtue, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I think > this is a very interesting exhibit. In the 16th and 17th century printing > evolved in the direction of printing pattern books for lace and needlework. > The > Metropolitan Museum of Art has an excellent collection of these early > pattern books which curator Femke Speelberg has paired with textiles that > show > the patterns in use. For people who are interested in the history of lace > and embroidery this is really a stunning show. In the 1930s the museum put > on an exhibition pairing patterns with textile samples, most of them lace, > and this entire exhibit appears on one wall as a side light. These are very > interesting study cards which are frequently consulted by early lace > enthusiasts in order to understand the translation of the patterns to lace. > This is an intellectually exciting exhibit in which you have to read the > labels to get the entire effect. The textiles were chosen to demonstrate the > patterns in the books, so they were not chosen on the basis of being world > class textiles, although several of them are quite nice. It is really > incredible that she found as many textiles as she did to match with the > patterns. My hat is off to her. Some of them are loan objects. > Details of the exhibit can be found here: > http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/fashion-and-virtue > Of interest to lacemakers there is a 1557 copy of Le Pompe on display. I > counted 35 pieces of lace in the exhibit, but many are small samples on the > study cards. There is filet, cutwork, burato, needle lace and bobbin lace. > Notable among the bobbin laces are a gold lace around a collar, and a > fascinating piece of bobbin lace that is a tour de force in technique that I > dealt with in an article in the Bulletin of the International Old Lacers, > Inc., winter 2007-8. > There are actually more pieces of lace in this Prints exhibit, than have > simultaneously been on display in the museum for quite some time. The last > major lace display was in the 1950s and I don't know if there were that many > then. Our lace display several years ago in the Ratti Gallery had only 13 > pieces. My husband, who is not a lace enthusiast found the woodblock carved > by Durer of a design by da Vinci to be the most interesting thing in the > exhibit. According to the curator, it has not been outside of Germany since > the 18th century. > I was lucky to be invited to the opening of the exhibit. After everyone > else had left, I got the idea to make a video of it with my phone just as a > memory aid to myself. It has occurred to me that posting this on youtube > might help some of my fellow lacemakers to decide whether they want to make > the expensive and time consuming journey to the exhibit, which is, after > all, > a Prints exhibit. Unfortunately, the video is of terrible quality and > really doesn't capture how interesting the exhibit is if you carefully read > the > labels. About 4 minutes into the video, my husband who after nearly two > hours in an exhibit that everyone else had already left, had been pushed > beyond his endurance level, and who didn't realize I was taping, gave me my > coat check tag and announced he was going to the car. This certainly gives > this otherwise very poorly done video some pathos. When he realized what I > was > doing, he didn't actually leave me. People who know my husband can see him > dodging behind a chasuble in the final seconds of the film. Hope the film > doesn't put anyone off, since it is an excellent exhibit. Here is the link. > > > https://youtu.be/5sC20kXwa1Y > Devon > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
