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'Part II: Fortgesetzter Kunst- und Fleiss-übender Nadel- auch Laden-Gewirck- Ergötzungen oder des neu-erfundenen Neh und Stick Buchs Anderer Theil'

Embroidery Design
ca. 1742 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This is a design featuring two strands of continous floral pattern with floral motifs in between. It is from a pattern book for embroidery (about 1742) by Margaretha Helm (neé Mainberger) (born in 1659 in Deiningen, died in 1742 in Nuremberg, Germany). It was designed for knitting, weaving, or embroidery in cross and French stitch (satin stitch padded). Cross stitch is made by creating two diagonal stitches that cross at the centre.

Helm worked in Nuremberg as an embroiderer, a teacher of embroidery, and a copperplate engraver who had these designs re-published by Christoph Weigel the Younger (1702-1777). The V&A has a series of pattern books for embroidery in three parts by Margaretha Helm of which this volume is Part II. It is entitled Fortgesetzter Kunst- und Fleiss-übender Nadel- auch Laden-Gewirck-Ergötzungen oder des neu-erfundenen Neh und Stick Buchs Anderer Theil or Further Delights of the Art and Industry of the practising Needle and Loom; or the newly invented Sewing and Embroidery Book Another part.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • 'Part II: Fortgesetzter Kunst- und Fleiss-übender Nadel- auch Laden-Gewirck- Ergötzungen oder des neu-erfundenen Neh und Stick Buchs Anderer Theil' (series title)
  • 'Further Delights of the Art and Industry of practising Needle and Loom; or newly invented Sewing and Embroidery book Another part'
Materials and techniques
Engraving and etching on graph paper.
Brief description
Design for knitting, weaving and embroidery in cross and French stitch, about 1742 by Margaretha Helm (1659-1742)
Physical description
Design for knitting, weaving and embroidery in cross and French stitch. The design features two strands of continuous floral pattern with three floral motifs in between on graph paper.
Dimensions
  • Size of plate. height: 18.7cm
  • Size of plate width: 28.5cm
Production typeDesign
Marks and inscriptions
'13' (Plate number in ink at bottom right. NB. The plate is bound upside down in the volume.)
Production
These printed designs by Helm are catalogued as Helmin, the feminine form of Helm, in the Micromedia online catalogue.

Attribution note: The information in the preface for this design states that it belongs to the chest/drawer-knitting/weaving [frame loom weaving?] as to the Cross and French (padded satin) stitch in sewing: But it is not less useful to [Barten or harten? Transcript unclear] hand knitters, weavers and cloth-weavers [Zeugwirker= Tuch- und Wollweber, cloth and wool weavers] or other people who handle similar work.
Subjects depicted
Summary
This is a design featuring two strands of continous floral pattern with floral motifs in between. It is from a pattern book for embroidery (about 1742) by Margaretha Helm (neé Mainberger) (born in 1659 in Deiningen, died in 1742 in Nuremberg, Germany). It was designed for knitting, weaving, or embroidery in cross and French stitch (satin stitch padded). Cross stitch is made by creating two diagonal stitches that cross at the centre.

Helm worked in Nuremberg as an embroiderer, a teacher of embroidery, and a copperplate engraver who had these designs re-published by Christoph Weigel the Younger (1702-1777). The V&A has a series of pattern books for embroidery in three parts by Margaretha Helm of which this volume is Part II. It is entitled Fortgesetzter Kunst- und Fleiss-übender Nadel- auch Laden-Gewirck-Ergötzungen oder des neu-erfundenen Neh und Stick Buchs Anderer Theil or Further Delights of the Art and Industry of the practising Needle and Loom; or the newly invented Sewing and Embroidery Book Another part.
Bibliographic references
  • Ludwig, H. Nürnberger naturgeschichtliche Maleria im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Mahrburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 1998. pp.255 and 333.
  • Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. München: Manfred H. Grieb, 2007.
  • Will, G.A. Supplement zu dem Nürnbergischen Gelehrten Lexicon oder Beschreibung derienigen Personen welche in den Buchstaben A bis Z vischer gänzlich ausgelassen worden sind. Nürnberg, 4, p.421.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1933, London: Printed under the Authority of the Board of Education 1934
Collection
Accession number
E.1138-1933

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Record createdApril 16, 2009
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