'Continuatio der Kunst- und Fleiß-übenden Nadel-Ergötzung oder des neu-ersonnenen Besondern Nehe-Bichs dritter Theil'
Embroidery Design
ca. 1725 (made)
ca. 1725 (made)
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The printed design in an elongated triangular shape is for an embroidered stomacher. A stomacher is a stiff panel, often triangular in shape, which was inserted into an open bodice to cover the corset in eighteenth-century dress. The other design, in an elongated oval shape, is for a clothes case. They are 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 III. It is entitled Continuatio der Kunst- und Fleiss-übenden Nadel-Ergötzung oder des neu-ersonnenen besondern Nehe-Buchs Dritter Theil or Continuation of the Delights of the Art and Industry of the practising Needle or the newly-invented special Sewing Book Third part.
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Materials and techniques | Engraving and etching on laid paper. |
Brief description | Printed designs (2) for an embroidered stomacher and a clothes case from a pattern book, about 1725 by Margaretha Helm (1659-1742) |
Physical description | Printed designs (2) featuring floral patterns. The design on the right hand side is an elongated oval shape. The design has been bound into the album sideways. |
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Production type | Design |
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Production | These printed designs by Helm are catalogued as Helmin, the feminine form of Helm, in the Micromedia online catalogue. |
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Summary | The printed design in an elongated triangular shape is for an embroidered stomacher. A stomacher is a stiff panel, often triangular in shape, which was inserted into an open bodice to cover the corset in eighteenth-century dress. The other design, in an elongated oval shape, is for a clothes case. They are 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 III. It is entitled Continuatio der Kunst- und Fleiss-übenden Nadel-Ergötzung oder des neu-ersonnenen besondern Nehe-Buchs Dritter Theil or Continuation of the Delights of the Art and Industry of the practising Needle or the newly-invented special Sewing Book Third part. |
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Accession number | E.5092-1905 |
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Record created | May 7, 2009 |
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