'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 on two sheets of paper showing a wreath enclosing a picture of the Virgin Mary. 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).
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 on two sheets showing a wreath enclosing a picture of the Virgin Mary, about 1742 by Margaretha Helm (1659-1742) |
Physical description | Design on two sheets showing a wreath enclosing a picture of the Virgin Mary. The design features a large acanthus and floral motif with small ribbons. The design is folded into the album on graph paper. |
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Production type | Design |
Marks and inscriptions | '30' (Plate number in ink at top right.) |
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 represents two sheets and a wreath together with a picture of the Virgin Mary. Alike as plate numbers 17 and 18 [that] belong together as two sheets; No. 22, 23, 24 [belong together], which consist of three sheets [I think here 'Bogen' means sheet of paper]. But for critical reasons one has not joined these together because they can be better used in this way and could otherwise be torn apart [not sure about the transcript] by putting them together. For the rest, they fit quite accurately on each other, although the sheets do not always hit each other precisely, as the paper is sometimes to blame for it and one sheet is not like the other; but by recounting/tallying as many small holes will result on one page as on the other. |
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Summary | This is a design on two sheets of paper showing a wreath enclosing a picture of the Virgin Mary. 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). 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.1155-1933 |
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Record created | April 17, 2009 |
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