EditorialTurkish craftsmen in Constantinople. From left to right: passementerie maker, pipe maker, wood turners, babouche embroiderer and gunsmith. Chromolithography. Illustration by Jos? Acevedo. Lithograph by Jos? Maria Mateu. "Viaje a Oriente", 1878.
EditorialEmbroiderer. Tashrih al-aqvam, an account of origins and occupations of some of the sects, castes and tribes of India. Written at Hansi Cantonment, Hissar District, eighty-five miles north-west of Delhi for Colonel James Skinner. 1825. Source: Add. 272...
EditorialBrodeur (Embroiderer), Section 18, Plate 1, Encyclop?die, ou dictionnaire raisonn? des sciences, des arts et des m?tiers (Encyclopedia, or Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades), vol.19, Beno?t-Louis Pr?vost, French, 17351804, Engravi...
EditorialSampler, Alls Tanner, English, Medium: silk and linen embroidery on linen Technique: cross, montenegrin cross, eyelet, satin, double running, and detached looping stitches, withdrawn element work with needle lace fillings, Cross border of floral patter...
EditorialWoodcut (facsimile): An embroiderer at work, Black ink printed on white paper, Embroiderer shown at work in his shop, assisted by a woman. Facsimile of a page from early 16th century book., France, 15501600, architecture, interiors, Print, Print.
EditorialSampler, Hannah Holland, American, Medium: silk embroidery on wool foundation Technique: embroidered in cross, eyelet, stem, and satin stitches on plain weave foundation, In the center are several bands of neatly worked alphabets, a verse, crowns, the ...
EditorialFour professions after Humanity, Four glasses with images of professions in a wooden setting. A fifth glass (second from the left) is missing. Far left: the musician plays on a lute. Right of it: missing. In the middle: the instrument maker, a lute in ...
EditorialMombello, Limbiate, Lombardy, Italy. Villa Pusterla Crivelli Arconati is the site of a historical re-enactment, set in 1797, of the marriage of Paolina Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister, who married in the Oratorio dei Crivelli adjacent to the villa. A stal...
EditorialEmbroiderer working on two pieces of silk cloth, Qing Dynasty. One with a bird for a civil mandarin, one with a quadruped animal for a military mandarin. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-...
EditorialEmbroiderer of Appenzell, Embroiderer from Appenzell, pl. 46, after p. 146 (vol. 2), Yosy, A., A. Yosi, Switzerland, as now divided into nineteen cantons (...). London: J. Booth & J. Murray, 1815.
EditorialSwiss needlework, Appenzell embroiderer, p. 289, 1854, Charles Williams, The Alps, Switzerland, and the North of Italy. London: Cassell, 1854.
EditorialFour professions after Humanity, Four glasses with images of professions in a wooden setting. A fifth glass (second from the left) is missing. Far left: the musician plays on a lute. Right of it: missing. In the middle: the instrument maker, a lute in ...
EditorialThe Embroiderer. An example of the errors, nature sometimes makes in labeling the sexes. Just as one sees the would-be women who wear pants, some kind of a moustache, who play a cornet or the bass-viol, or who compose humanitarian novels, in the same w...
EditorialThe Embroiderer. An example of the errors, nature sometimes makes in labeling the sexes. Just as one sees the would-be women who wear pants, some kind of a moustache, who play a cornet or the bass-viol, or who compose humanitarian novels, in the same w...
EditorialStudy of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67.
EditorialThe Embroiderer. An example of the errors, nature sometimes makes in labeling the sexes. Just as one sees the would-be women who wear pants, some kind of a moustache, who play a cornet or the bass-viol, or who compose humanitarian novels, in the same w...
EditorialStudy of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67.
EditorialEmbroiderer. Tashrih al-aqvam, an account of origins and occupations of some of the sects, castes and tribes of India. Written at Hansi Cantonment, Hissar District, eighty-five miles north-west of Delhi for Colonel James Skinner. 1825. Source: Add. 272...
EditorialEmbroiderer. Tashrih al-aqvam, an account of origins and occupations of some of the sects, castes and tribes of India. Written at Hansi Cantonment, Hissar District, eighty-five miles north-west of Delhi for Colonel James Skinner. 1825. Source: Add. 272...
EditorialStudy of a Figure in a Niche (Saint Ambrose; recto); Architectural Studies: Four Alternative Designs for Fictive Niches and an Unrelated Design with Garlands (verso), ca. 1560-67.
EditorialEmbroiderer, Paris, early 19th century, in white dress and bonnet. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from "Ouvrieres de Paris" (Tradeswomen of Paris), Paris, 1823.
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