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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:56:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: jeria...@aol.com
Subject: Re: [lace] Eye of the Needle - Feller, Goodhart, Witney
For the few who study early embroidery,
It was delightful to read Jane's August 13th memo about the Feller Sampler
exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum
For the few who study early embroidery,
It was delightful to read Jane's August 13th memo about the Feller Sampler
exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum. I have visited this museum 2 times,
and found much thread work in the regular collection to be of interest.
Both times it was arranged
Many thanks for your report, Jane. I am visiting the Ashmolean on 23 August and
have tickets for this exhibition. I hope I enjoy it as much as you.
Jill
Milton Keynes, UK
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Yes its an amazing collection of needlework. I'm glad magnifiers were
available, the stitches are unbelievably tiny. I went to the lecture by the
curator before visiting the exhibition. She told us the the Fellers were the
family that own the butchers in the Covered Market! I never would have
Hi All,
I'm just back from the Eye of the Needle exhibition at the Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford (UK).
Perhaps its because I'm a lace maker not an embroiderer but - Wow!
The exhibition is of embroidery from the Feller collection. I've no
idea who Elizabeth and Micheal Feller are, but they have a
Thank you so much for this information! Without an exhibition catalogue, this
exhibition would be seldom seen! Posts such as yours help insure that as many
lacemakers/embroiderers/ and needle artists of all descriptions/ can be
accessed on the Internet!
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 13, 2014,
Hello everyone
Here is a link to the two volumes about the Feller collection, click their
images for a generous peek inside the pages!
http://needleprint.blogspot.ca/2012/04/micheal-elizabeth-feller-needlework.html
There is no exhibition catalogue as such, but there are two books
describing
That period wasn't too early for either bobbin lace or needle lace. The
Professor's Archives has a lot of scanned in books that date from the 1500s
with both bobbin and needle lace patterns. I've made good use of the books
for some of my punto in aria and reticello recreations.
It's probably
