Pattern Sources Of Scriptural Subjects In Tudor And Stuart Embroideries
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Pattern Sources Of Scriptural Subjects In Tudor And Stuart Embroideries - Nancy Graves Cabot
Pattern Sources Of
Scriptural Subjects In Tudor
And Stuart Embroideries
By
Nancy Graves Cabot
CONTENTS
PATTERN SOURCES OF SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS IN TUDOR AND STUART EMBROIDERIES
EMBROIDERIES OF SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS IDENTIFIED WITH ENGRAVINGS IN THE THESAURUS SACRARUM, OF GERARD DE JODE, ANTWERP, 1585
FRONTISPIECE
THE TEMPTATION AND FALL.
DETAIL OF EMBROIDERED VALANCE, THE STORY OF ADAM AND EVE (PAGE 9).
PATTERN SOURCES OF SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS IN TUDOR AND STUART EMBROIDERIES
By NANCY GRAVES CABOT
FOR ONE with leisure, who is interested in embroidered pictures, and who likewise takes pleasure in the graphic arts, I can recommend the search for the sources of design of Scriptural subjects in English needlework of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is a pursuit of singular delight, involving an intimate knowledge of lovely old embroideries and an extensive study of early prints and book illustrations, with the occasional gratification of being able to fit the two arts together like pieces of a glorified picture puzzle.
It has long been recognized that many designers of early pictorial embroideries resorted to engravings for their patterns. Prolific artists for more than a century, in the rapid expansion of the art of book illustration and print making, had produced an abundant supply of tales in pictures, on mythological, classical and Scriptural themes, with spirited action and clear cut lines, well suited for translation into another craft. Here was a wider choice of animated scenes for embroideries than was offered in English and Continental pattern books; a resourceful and easy way to build a variety of designs for both the amateur and the professional, and for the latter, concerned with emolument, a means to faster production as well.
Sometimes in these translations the whole scene of a wood-cut or copper engraving was traced quite faithfully, and transferred to the fabric to be embroidered. At other times figures only were culled from the print, and adapted in different arrangements for the design; the naked clothed, garments fashionably altered according to