Tue Sep 18, 2018 05:59 AM

Morning Modelbuch (9/18/2018)

I’m a little bouncy about this astounding appliqued silk bedhead dated between 1550 and 1570. http://m.vam.ac.uk/collections/item/O93443/bed-head-unknown/ If I wasn’t in the middle of other projects I’d want to start making one immediately. Okay, I still want to make one immediately. The museum description says the silk is cut to shape and worked over paper into a linen ground and lined in linen. Details are embroidered.

The designs match engravings published by the goldsmiths Etienne Delaune and Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Du Cerceau’s _Livre de Grotesques_ was published in Paris in 1566 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/727220 as a resource for artists. The winged fairies match up with some in Delaune’s allegory of Architecture.