Sat Nov 10, 2018 07:29 AM

Morning Modelbuch (11/10/2018)

Frances Morris, Gertrude Whiting, and the collaboration between the Met and the Needle and Bobbin Club in the early and mid 20th century got the Met one of the most extensive 16-17th century collection of laces and textiles based on modelbuch in the world. Another figure that was part of that was Marian Hague. The neatly labeled pages with copies of the patterns from the modelbuch and extant examples in the Met are hers. She died in 1971 at the age of 97, leaving a couple of dozen similar pages to the Met and about 700 various textiles to the Cooper Hewitt Museum. I’ve included an example where the mounted page is in the Met and the rest of the band is in the other museum. It’s a really lovely blue woven band of linen based on a patterns from Shoensperger. The info at the Met is nice and the high res pictures at the Cooper Hewitt are fabulous.

She wrote a fascinating article on comparative laces, looking at how the same patterns turn out when worked in varying lace techniques in addition to other articles for The Bobbin and Lace Club. They’re available at the Arizona On-Line Digital Archive of Weaving and Related Topics Comparisons in Lace Design, Hague, Marian. The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, Vol. 29 (1945), 23 pages. https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/lace.html

Hague also coauthored a book with Frances Morris when Morris was president and Hague was vice-president of the Needle and Bobbin Club. _Antique Laces of American Collectors_

I’ll be continuing to post things from her collection, so decided we should all know a bit about her work. Seriously, read her articles, they’re well worth the time.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/226381 https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18474947/