Thursday, August 24, 2017

More Museum Examples


Above is a picture of a woman's Italian shirt from the second half of the 16th century, from the Textile Museum in Prato. http://www.museodeltessuto.it/museo/collezioni/?lang=en


For an example of a man's linen shirt with blue silk embroidery from the Textile Museum in Prato, please visit https://www.pinterest.dk/pin/20969954487488406/




Smock; English, 1575-1585. In Queen Elizabeth I's New Year's Gifts of 1588-9, this entry is listed: 'one smock of fyne Holland cloth, fair wrought with black silk'. The embroidery on this pictured smock (V&A Museum) includes an eglantine rose and a Tudor rose; the Queen was given many similar blackwork garments

Pictured above is a smock; English, circa 1575-1585. In Queen Elizabeth I's New Year's Gifts of 1588-9, this entry is listed: 'one smock of fyne Holland cloth, fair wrought with black silk'. The embroidery on this pictured smock (V&A Museum) includes an eglantine rose and a Tudor rose; the Queen was given many similar blackwork garments. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O78732/smock-unknown/


antiquepatternlibrary.com - the pattern designers best friend - amazing pattern archive









Pictured above from the Met Museum is a panel of blackwork embroidery circa 1580-1620. http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/223032



Other websites to visit for examples:

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/blackwork-fragment-65915

http://mfastpete.org/obj/albanus-wolfhart-of-lindau/

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/217866

https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/84657.html



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