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Emblems for a Queen
The Needlework of Mary Queen of Scots
Michael Bath
Essential reading for all those interersted in Mary Queen of Scots
Detailed images of beautifully embroidered emblems including two "Byrds of America" (Birds of America)
The many pieces of embroidery made by Mary Queen of Scots and by Elizabeth Countess of Shrewsbury are among the best-known and most important examples of historical embroidery. Most notable is the extent to which the embroideries executed by the two women constitute a single, distinctive body of creative work. The purpose of this book is to address the many unanswered questions surrounding the meaning and purpose of their embroidery and above all, the sources and patterns used for their imagerly.

Professor Michael Bath of the University of Strathclyde is Chairman of The Society of Emblem Studies and a specialist in Renaissance emblem books, iconography, iconology and poetics. His publications include Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture (1994) and Decorative Painting in Scotland (2002).

208 pages, 130 color, 42 black and white illustrations, $60.00
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2008
Pre-orders welcome

FOUNDING MOTHERS AND FATHERS:  Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society by Mary Beth Norton. 512 pages, $17.00

by Pamela Clabburn.

Expanded Shire Album, 40 pages, $11.95

Traditional Embroidered Animals
by Sarah Don
Mythical dragons, heraldic lions, fabled foxes, domestic cats and dogs, exotic elephants (after slips worked by Mary Queen of Scots), are all included in this book, including their sources and symbolic meanings. The animals are shown in detail, with charted patterns, most in full color. The author describes their role through the different embroidery fashions and techniques, as well as the pattern sources, symbolism, and the materials and techniques used, to recreate them. Hardbound, 128 pages, hard cover, $28.00

A GOLDEN AGE
Rare and Historic Embroideries from the 16th and 17th Centuries

A new exhibition catalogue from Witney Antiques

During the 16th century textiles dominated the furnishings of the great houses of Europe. England and Scotland were no exception to this fashion. A Golden Age of embroidery was to continue to the middle of the 17th century and this exhibition of examples from the period is an opportunity to explore this fascinating and exotic world of images and stories from political, religious and secular sources. In the catalogue and the exhibition, there are a number of very fine embroidered panels including Jephthah and his Daughter, the Judgement of Solomon, the story of Abraham and Judith and Holofernes. There are also caskets, cushions, gloves and hangings, some indicating the symbolic meaning of embroidered motifs used in secular pictures.
33 pages, soft bound

$25.00