This book centers around the Metropolitan Museum of Art s preeminent collection of embroidered objects from England s late Tudor and Stuart eras. These seventeenth-century embroideries, some eighty works in all, include samplers, gloves, headgear, purses, raised work panels, boxes and mirrors, portrait miniatures, lavishly embroidered Bibles, and a spectacular burse made to hold the Great Seal of England. In a series of essays the book explores the important role of embroidery in the history of textiles and decorative arts ...
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This book centers around the Metropolitan Museum of Art s preeminent collection of embroidered objects from England s late Tudor and Stuart eras. These seventeenth-century embroideries, some eighty works in all, include samplers, gloves, headgear, purses, raised work panels, boxes and mirrors, portrait miniatures, lavishly embroidered Bibles, and a spectacular burse made to hold the Great Seal of England. In a series of essays the book explores the important role of embroidery in the history of textiles and decorative arts and also offers new insight into the role of women in the production of decorative arts. Expert scholars discuss embroidered furnishings, fashion accessories, biblical narratives, and pastoral imagery, to create a superb and comprehensive overview of embroidery during this tumultuous period in English history."
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Fine in fine jacket. Foreword by Susan Weber. Color illustrations throughout, many full-page. xix, 308 pages. Large 4to, black cloth with gilt lettering at the spine, pictorial d.w. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Bard Graduate Center, (2008). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown from December 11, 2008-April 12, 2009 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. With essays by Cristina Balloffet Carr, Ruth Geuter, Susan North, and Kathleen Staples.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, now in mylar. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 308 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color, Frontispiece, Figures. Audience: General/trade.
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New. 030012967X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Text in English. 328 pp. With 305 ills. (291 col. ). 32 x 25 cm. --with a bonus offer--