'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)
ca. 1742 (made)
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This is a design featuring four motifs in the centre of hexagons, two sides of which are formed by twisted columns. 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.
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.
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| 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 featuring 4 stylised symmetrical motifs in the centre of hexagons, two sides of which are formed by twisted columns on graph paper. |
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| Production type | Design |
| Marks and inscriptions | '16' (Plate number in ink at bottom left.) |
| Production | These printed designs by Helm are catalogued as Helmin, the feminine form of Helm, in the Micromedia online catalogue. The same patterm appeared in the Da Sera books of 1531-1532 and was copied and published again in Le Livre de Lingerie , published in Paris in 1584. A lace cover made from the Da Sera pattern exists. Helm stated that this pattern could be used for knitting, weaving, or embroidered in cross or French stitch (padded satin stitch). The engravings of baskets and vases of flowers by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) are similar to those by Helm in The Delights (92.C.3) and Further Delights (92.C.3a). 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. |
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| Summary | This is a design featuring four motifs in the centre of hexagons, two sides of which are formed by twisted columns. 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. |
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| Accession number | E.1141-1933 |
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| Record created | April 16, 2009 |
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