Mon Dec 10, 2018 07:51 PM

Morning Modelbuch (12/11/2018)

I know this set of embroidered bed curtains is a bit late with a date of 1670, but I really want to share it for a couple of reasons. It has the adorable animals seen in Richard Schorleyker’s 1632 _Schole-house for the Needle_ but this would not have been copied from a modelbuch. It didn’t need to be. The pattern was printed onto the fabric and sold with the intent it be embroidered. There are quite a few pieces like this including coifs and jackets. Some were probably printed by the same printers. Vavassore workshop as well as Schonsperger have records of printing textiles. The other reason I wanted to share is that it was probably actually embroidered in the US, in South Carolina after being printed England. More interesting methods of pattern transmission.

https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/13657 Free versions of Shorleyker aren’t particularly accessible. The 1632 version of Schole-house For the Needle is available for purchase and there is a 1624 version available at the Bodleian Library through EEBO if you have access. There is an incomplete version available for free via the Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20040206052811/http:/infotrope.net/sca/texts/scholehouse/ I’ve also got a few more pages scrounged and linked on one of my Pinterest boards https://www.pinterest.com/hodgepatch/scholehouse-for-the-needle/