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    Pattern Sources Of Scriptural Subjects In Tudor And Stuart Embroideries
    Pattern Sources Of Scriptural Subjects In Tudor And Stuart Embroideries
    Pattern Sources Of Scriptural Subjects In Tudor And Stuart Embroideries
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    Pattern Sources Of Scriptural Subjects In Tudor And Stuart Embroideries

    By Nancy Graves Cabot

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    “Pattern Sources Of Scriptural Subjects In Tudor And Stuart Embroideries” explores the colourful history of embroidery, focusing on the sources of design of “scriptural” subjects in English needlework during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This vintage book will appeal to those with an interest in the history and development of European needlework. Contents include: “A History of Textiles and Weaving”, “Pattern Sources of Scriptural Subjects in Tudor and Stuart Embroideries”, and “Embroideries of Scriptural Subjects Identified with Engravings in the 'Thesaurus Sacrarum', of Gerard de Jode, Antwerp, 1585”. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on embroidery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateNov 4, 2011
    ISBN9781447491309
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      Pattern Sources Of Scriptural Subjects In Tudor And Stuart Embroideries - Nancy Graves Cabot

      Pattern Sources Of

      Scriptural Subjects In Tudor

      And Stuart Embroideries

      By

      Nancy Graves Cabot

      CONTENTS

      PATTERN SOURCES OF SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS IN TUDOR AND STUART EMBROIDERIES

      EMBROIDERIES OF SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS IDENTIFIED WITH ENGRAVINGS IN THE THESAURUS SACRARUM, OF GERARD DE JODE, ANTWERP, 1585

      FRONTISPIECE

      THE TEMPTATION AND FALL.

      DETAIL OF EMBROIDERED VALANCE, THE STORY OF ADAM AND EVE (PAGE 9).

      PATTERN SOURCES OF SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS IN TUDOR AND STUART EMBROIDERIES

      By NANCY GRAVES CABOT

      FOR ONE with leisure, who is interested in embroidered pictures, and who likewise takes pleasure in the graphic arts, I can recommend the search for the sources of design of Scriptural subjects in English needlework of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is a pursuit of singular delight, involving an intimate knowledge of lovely old embroideries and an extensive study of early prints and book illustrations, with the occasional gratification of being able to fit the two arts together like pieces of a glorified picture puzzle.

      It has long been recognized that many designers of early pictorial embroideries resorted to engravings for their patterns. Prolific artists for more than a century, in the rapid expansion of the art of book illustration and print making, had produced an abundant supply of tales in pictures, on mythological, classical and Scriptural themes, with spirited action and clear cut lines, well suited for translation into another craft. Here was a wider choice of animated scenes for embroideries than was offered in English and Continental pattern books; a resourceful and easy way to build a variety of designs for both the amateur and the professional, and for the latter, concerned with emolument, a means to faster production as well.

      Sometimes in these translations the whole scene of a wood-cut or copper engraving was traced quite faithfully, and transferred to the fabric to be embroidered. At other times figures only were culled from the print, and adapted in different arrangements for the design; the naked clothed, garments fashionably altered according to

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