Re: [lace] Programme on Opus Anglicanum on BBC4
Hi Louise and fellow Arachnids, Thank you very much for this link. I got up early this morning (05.45 hrs. on a Sunday morning) to watch it and I was enchanted. As I am involved in Medieval Living History, including demonstrating some medieval textile-crafts I found this program riveting. Let's hope Dan Jones will do some equally good programs in the future. Joepie, East Sussex, UK Louise Bailey wrote;- Subject: [lace] Programme on Opus Anglicanum on BBC4 . BBC 4 has just finished had a short run series Fabric of Britan Opus Anglicanum (English work), the work of English embroiders was desired by kings and popes throughout Christendom.. Dan Jones, Plantagenet expert and medievalist, goes in search of these fragile yet stunning survivors from the great age of embroidery - encountering a world of finery, bejewelled luxury and sacred beauty on an undreamt-of scale. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03c2766/Fabric_of_Britain_The_Wonder_of _Embroidery/ Enjoy! Louise, - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
Re: [lace] Programme on Opus Anglicanum on BBC4
Many thanks to Louise for posting this. I watched last night on catch up TV (what a great invention that is!) and I totally agree that the programme was absolutely fascinating. The close ups of the needlework showed the stitching in fantastic detail and it was mind-blowing how many hundreds of hours of work must have gone into making each of the articles that was shown. I hope that non UK members will be able to enjoy the programme somehow. Jill in cloudy, but warm, Milton Keynes On 03 October 2013 at 16:26 Louise Bailey bail...@slb.com wrote: I apologise first to all the non Uk Arachnes - as unless this is syndicated it won't be accessible to you, (actually it might be through BBC worldwide / itunes, but I don't know). BBC 4 has just finished had a short run series Fabric of Britan .The first one was on knitting and a bit soft, mainly on fashions trends in the 20th C. I haven't watched the second one yet on wall paper. But the third, last night, was really very good. Beautiful focus on stunning early mediaeval church copes, and a demonstration from the RCN on the stiches involved. They even pinpointed the date at which the skill declined with the great plague, and when inferior continental techniques came in. I've posted the iplayer link - its available until Sunday. There is a clip under more info nonUK people might be able to see. Here's the blurb The Reformation in England witnessed the destruction of the most brilliant art of the medieval age. Church paintings and stained glass - even sculpture - were destroyed throughout England in the name of religion. And yet one art survived against the odds - the art of medieval embroidery. Portable and easily squirrelled away, English embroidery was spirited out of the country in the 16th century and many brilliant examples survive today - if slightly unappreciated and forgotten in Italian churches and museums, even the Vatican. And yet it is an art form that rivalled the very finest in medieval painting or stained glass and for 200 years was the finest embroidery in the Western world. Known simply as Opus Anglicanum (English work), the work of English embroiders was desired by kings and popes throughout Christendom. Dan Jones, Plantagenet expert and medievalist, goes in search of these fragile yet stunning survivors from the great age of embroidery - encountering a world of finery, bejewelled luxury and sacred beauty on an undreamt-of scale. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03c2766/Fabric_of_Britain_The_Wonder_of _Embroidery/ Enjoy! Louise, In slightly drier Cambridge this afternoon, where Autumn and the university term have definitely arrived - cue the wet weather traffic jams - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Programme on Opus Anglicanum on BBC4
I apologise first to all the non Uk Arachnes - as unless this is syndicated it won't be accessible to you, (actually it might be through BBC worldwide / itunes, but I don't know). BBC 4 has just finished had a short run series Fabric of Britan .The first one was on knitting and a bit soft, mainly on fashions trends in the 20th C. I haven't watched the second one yet on wall paper. But the third, last night, was really very good. Beautiful focus on stunning early mediaeval church copes, and a demonstration from the RCN on the stiches involved. They even pinpointed the date at which the skill declined with the great plague, and when inferior continental techniques came in. I've posted the iplayer link - its available until Sunday. There is a clip under more info nonUK people might be able to see. Here's the blurb The Reformation in England witnessed the destruction of the most brilliant art of the medieval age. Church paintings and stained glass - even sculpture - were destroyed throughout England in the name of religion. And yet one art survived against the odds - the art of medieval embroidery. Portable and easily squirrelled away, English embroidery was spirited out of the country in the 16th century and many brilliant examples survive today - if slightly unappreciated and forgotten in Italian churches and museums, even the Vatican. And yet it is an art form that rivalled the very finest in medieval painting or stained glass and for 200 years was the finest embroidery in the Western world. Known simply as Opus Anglicanum (English work), the work of English embroiders was desired by kings and popes throughout Christendom. Dan Jones, Plantagenet expert and medievalist, goes in search of these fragile yet stunning survivors from the great age of embroidery - encountering a world of finery, bejewelled luxury and sacred beauty on an undreamt-of scale. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03c2766/Fabric_of_Britain_The_Wonder_of _Embroidery/ Enjoy! Louise, In slightly drier Cambridge this afternoon, where Autumn and the university term have definitely arrived - cue the wet weather traffic jams - 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://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
