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Kunst-und Fleiss-übende Nadel-Ergötzungen oder neu- erfundenes Neh- und Stick-Buch
Helm, Margaretha, born 1659 - died 1742 - Enlarge image
Kunst-und Fleiss-übende Nadel-Ergötzungen oder neu- erfundenes Neh- und Stick-Buch; The Delights of the Art and Industry of the practising Needle or newly invented Sewing and Embroidery book; Part I
- Object:
Design
- Date:
ca.1725 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Helm, Margaretha, born 1659 - died 1742 (made)
Helmin, Margaretha, born 1659 - died 1742 (Feminine form of Helm., made)
Johann Christoph Weigel, born 1654 - died 1726 (made) - Materials and Techniques:
Engraving and etching on laid paper
- Museum number:
E.3371-1932
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level F, case 92, shelf C, box 3
This is a printed design for an embroidered textile, possibly for upholstery featuring flowers flowing from a floral wreath. It is from a pattern book for embroidery (about 1725) by Margaretha Helm (neé Mainberger) (born in 1659 in Deiningen, died in 1742 in Nuremberg, Germany). Helm worked in Nuremberg as an embroiderer, a teacher of embroidery and a copperplate engraver who had her designs published by Johann Christoph Weigel.
The V&A has a series of pattern books for embroidery in three parts by Margaretha Helm of which this volume is Part I. It is entitled Kunst-und Fleiss-übende Nadel-Ergötzungen oder neu- erfundenes Neh- und Stick-Buch or
The Delights of the Art and Industry of the practising Needle or the newly invented Sewing and Embroidery Book .
