Sat Jul 17, 2021 09:57 AM

July 17, 2021

We are in the middle of an intense drought right now and I already live in a desert, so I’m enjoying the bright flowers and fruit of embroidery (which doesn’t require any water.)

Embroidered slips on a white satin pillowcase. Couched with silver. York Museums Trust object number YORCM : BA3726 Embroidery was begun around 1650. https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/collections/search/item/?id=10003081

Pages from John Dunstall’s Book of Slips of Fruit and Book of Slips of Flowers. Many of these prints were circulated as individual pages intended for use by artists and students. Dated in the early 17th century. This particular print is dated around 1666. Most of the information on them is found associated with the publisher Peter Stent. Inscribed “John Dunstall fe./Sold by Iohn Overton at the White Horso[sic] at ye Corner of Littl Oulbaley without newgate neere the Fountane Tauerne.”

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2AA-a-67-101