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 COMMON THREAD - COMMON GROUND: A collection of Essays on Early Samplers and Historic Needleworkedited by Marsha Van Valin Early samplers and needleworks have curious and diverse ways of speaking to us, not only through the visual delight and historic material they represent, but in many other ways, far more subtle. This collection of essays, by noted scholars and specialists in the study of early samplers, underscores and amplifies that fact. This stimulating collection of essays includes three chapters by Carol Humphrey, Honorary Keeper of Textiles at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge England, covering various aspects of the Museum's vast sampler collection; a discussion of the source for pastoral and idyllic landscapes in early eighteenth century canvaswork pictures and samplers by Kathy Staples; Carol Huber's essay on architecture in eighteenth and early nineteenth century American needlework; a fascinating piece on early samplers of The Netherlands by Margriet Hogue, a noted textile conservator, Frances Failes', text titled Hanging By A Thread, regarding the care and conservation of early samplers; and an essay on rare epistolary samplers (samplers stitched as letters) by the editor, and more. Between chapters, three accomplished and brilliant poets and writers have contributed works inspired by early samplers, and those long-gone samplermakers. The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs of samplers that have never appeared in print before, in color and black and white (over 100 illustrations). A SCARLET LETTER EXCLUSIVE. Softbound, 84 pages, $32.95. |
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A
STITCH
IN
RHYME:
AN EXAMINATION OF VERSE
EMBROIDERED ON NEEDLEWORK
SAMPLERS IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA
BETWEEN 1647 AND 1857 edited by Marsha Van Valin, with an essay by Tom McBride |
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Over 450 verses from early
samplers, the majority of which
are or were in the private
collection of The Scarlet Letter
and heretofore unpublished, are
recorded in this book, with two
introductory essays analyzing
the verse from a literary
perspective. In the past
twenty-five years, the world of
antique studies has paid
increasingly more attention to
these early needleworks, but
little or no literary attention
has been focused on the poetry
embroidered on them. The
predominant themes of sampler
verse are timeless and
universal: birth, death, love,
awe of beauty and nature, joy,
sorrow, reward, and punishment.
This ground breaking study looks
at this peculiar body of work
from a unique point of view. (Tom McBride is a professor of English Literature at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin.) Softbound, 88 pages, $24.00 |
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SAMPLERS
FROM THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT
MUSEUM
This wonderful array of
samplers, one of the most
popular needlework art forms,
is drawn from the outstanding
collection at the V&A.
Illustrations and text combine
to provide a historical survey
of samplers, their purposes
and patterns, together with a
practical guide, through
details and line drawings, to
the many different types of
stitches used in their
working. The book will be
invaluable both to the
embroidery and needlework
enthusiasts and to those
interested in social history,
since samplers often reveal an
abundance of intimate detail
about their makers and the
domestic society in which they
lived.
Softbound, 144 pages, $36.00
TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK |
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