Download or read book Irish Needlework Samplers written by M. C. O'Callaghan and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl in 18th or 19th century Ireland would have expected to live a quiet, useful life, but not one that was going to involve something that people would be praising her for centuries later. If her family was not well off, she would have been lucky to get any education before the introduction of the National Schools in 1831. After that, she would probably have got a basic primary education. Still, about two-fifths of women in their fifties in the 1901 Irish Census could not both read and write. If the girl's family was well-off, she would generally have got a reasonably good, but still fairly basic, education, perhaps from a governess or in a private school. Whether from a wealthy background or not, the girl would probably have been very religious. If the girl was from a well-to-do family, she wasn't supposed to work. The only fairly respectable job for a girl or woman from the upper or middle classes, who had fallen on hard times, was that of governess. If the girl was from a lower middle class or working class background, her options were still pretty limited. She could generally just go into service or work in a shop or a factory, though some also became teachers in the 19th century.There were lots of jobs which, no matter what her background, there was no way the girl was going to be allowed do them, as she was female. She wasn't going to get to be a lawyer, a politician, an engineer or a priest. Nor would she get a job as a postman, a carpenter or a miner.The girl wouldn't be getting a vote, so she couldn't make her mark that way.If she married, she would probably marry young. Her husband would then own everything, and she would be seen under law as being his property. She was likely to have many children, and some of them would probably die young. There was a strong chance that she wouldn't live very long herself.Hence, apart from through family life, that young girl heading into adulthood was unlikely to really be able to make her mark on the world. The idea that she would create items that would be on display in museums 200 years later would have seemed pretty far-fetched. And yet this is just what happened, in the case of some young girls. These girls left beautiful gifts for posterity. They left the needlework samplers that they made during childhood and their teenage years. They left samplers which were framed and displayed by families, and which were passed down through families, sometimes being recorded in wills. A family also often passed down the history of the young girl who made the sampler. The presence of the sampler meant that she would have been discussed through the generations. The samplers are still valued and some are displayed in museums and in grand houses. Usually museum items are created by master craftsmen and, occasionally, craftswomen, who have had many years of training and many years of experience. It is very, very rare for museum artefacts, which generally need to be of very high quality, to be made by children and teenagers. And yet this is the case with samplers.There is another unusual feature of these artefacts. Samplers are folk art and little remains of folk art. As Maureen Wlodarczyk notes, "Those things, often called "folk art" in the antiques trade, are scarce due to their fragile nature or purely utilitarian purpose". Yet we still have some samplers. Moreover folk art very rarely has the name, age, location and perhaps school of the creator. Again, samplers are the exception.In this eBook, the author looks at the nature of samplers, particularly Irish ones, and what we can learn from them. She looks too at why girls made samplers, and at the contents of the samplers, including motifs and texts.Please note that the small number of images in this book are in black and white.
Download or read book Samplers Sewing and Simplicity in Quaker Ireland written by Clodagh Grubb and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Needlework Samplers of Northern Ireland written by Heather M. Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celtic Cross Stitch Samplers written by Angela Wainwright and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the materials and techniques used for such needlework projects as eyeglass cases, pincushions, tea cosies, book covers, evening bags, wall hangings, and napkins
Download or read book Sampler Antique Needlework Quarterly Collection 1991 2015 written by Annie's and published by Annie's. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing unique reproductions of samplers and smalls from private collectors and museum collections, this DVD edition features one-of-a-kind antique needlework projects from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as antique-inspired designs. Also featured are well-researched articles profiling sampler makers, sampler-producing schools, needlework tools, museums and the various historical events that have shaped needlework. Some of the articles and projects cannot be found anywhere else, making this DVD essential to any collection. The DVD incudes full-color photography, easy-to-read charts and complete instructions.
Download or read book Ireland written by William Laffan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping survey of the arts of Ireland spanning 150 years and an astonishing range of artists and media This groundbreaking book captures a period in Ireland's history when countless foreign architects, artisans, and artists worked side by side with their native counterparts. Nearly all of the works within this remarkable volume--many of them never published before--have been drawn from North American collections. This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition to celebrate the Irish as artists, collectors, and patrons over 150 years of Ireland's sometimes turbulent history. Featuring the work of a wide range of artists--known and unknown--and a diverse array of media, the catalogue also includes an impressive assembly of essays by a pre-eminent group of international experts working on the art and cultural history of Ireland. Major essays discuss the subjects of the Irish landscape and tourism, Irish country houses, and Dublin's role as a center of culture and commerce. Also included are numerous shorter essays covering a full spectrum of topics and artworks, including bookbinding, ceramics, furniture, glass, mezzotints, miniatures, musical instruments, pastels, silver, and textiles.
Download or read book Embroidered Stories written by Helen Wyld and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samplers were embroidered pictures made by girls, and occasionally boys, as part of their education. Scottish samplers are unique with regard to the amount of information that can be gathered from them. They often include the initials of extended family members as well as details of buildings, places and events, leading to the identification of almost all of these young embroiderers. Leslie Durst, an American with a passion for Scotland, has a collection of over 500 samplers dating from the early 18th to the late 19th century; a small section of them will be exhibited at the National Museum of Scotland. This book showcases these and reveals the stories behind many of them - embroidered records of two centuries of Scottish social history. Exhibition: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK (26.10.2018 - 21.4.2019). --
Download or read book Northern Ireland written by Michael Owen Shannon and published by Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pens and Needles written by Susan Frye and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated products of self-fashioning and communication. Because early modern people saw verbal and visual texts as closely related, Susan Frye discusses the connections between the many forms of women's textualities, including notes in samplers, alphabets both stitched and penned, initials, ciphers, and extensive texts like needlework pictures, self-portraits, poetry, and pamphlets, as well as commissioned artwork, architecture, and interior design. She examines works on paper and cloth by such famous figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Bess of Hardwick, as well as the output of journeywomen needleworkers and miniaturists Levina Teerlinc and Esther Inglis, and their lesser-known sisters in the English colonies of the New World. Frye shows how traditional women's work was a way for women to communicate with one another and to shape their own identities within familial, intellectual, religious, and historical traditions. Pens and Needles offers insights into women's lives and into such literary texts as Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline and Mary Sidney Wroth's Urania.
Download or read book Samplers Tapestry Embroideries written by Marcus Bourne Huish and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Neatest Manner written by Kimberly Smith Ivey and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was prepared in conjunction with the exhibit Virginia Samplers: Young Ladies and Their Needle Wisdom, 10/31/1997-09/08/1998, at the DeWitt Wallace Gallery, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA.
Download or read book Cross Stitch Antique Style Samplers written by Jane Greenoff and published by David & Charles. This book was released on 2005-10-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of cross stitch projects featuring a variety of traditional sampler designs.
Download or read book British Samplers written by Jane Toller and published by Phillimore. This book was released on 1980 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the end of the 16th century embroidery came into increasing use for many purposes and many a needle-woman collected 'samplers' of her designs in her pattern book.
Download or read book Threads of Useful Learning written by Mary Uhl Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Threads of Useful Learning: Westtown School Samplers is a thorough and engaging look at the needlework produced by students at this Philadelphia-area Quaker boarding school from its founding in 1799 until 1843, when sewing was removed from the curriculum. The needlework - including several types of samplers and embroidered celestial and terrestrial globes believed to have been made only at Westtown - is discussed in the context of the useful education and spiritual formation envisioned by Quakers for their children. Fully illustrated with pieces from Westtown School's own extensive textile collection as well as others in museums and private collections, this work enriches our understanding of this important schoolgirl needlework and the education, religious beliefs, and lives of the teachers and girls who created it.
Download or read book Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature written by Paschalis Nikolaou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature brings together literary experts in two traditions and some contemporary novelists writing in them: this distinctive group includes Katy Hayes, Mia Gallagher, Deirdre Madden, Paraic O’Donnell, Christos Chrissopoulos, Panos Karnezis, Sophia Nikolaidou, and Ersi Sotiropoulos. Their work is presented in context, not only through excerpts from published and unpublished fiction, but also through eight self-reflective essays that enhance our understanding of these authors’ themes and modes. All these critical texts originate from a unique gathering of scholars and creative talent held at the Ionian University, Corfu, in October 2017, predominantly exploring Greek and Irish prose writing and the relationships between them. This volume paints a more complete picture through added scenes from drama, poetry and translation, and through considerations of the history and associations of two literatures at the edges of Europe. Translation is integral to the dialogues fostered; the selected works by the Irish and Greek writers can be read in both Greek and English, a manifestation of, and a further point in, the reception of these authors beyond Greece and Ireland. The book opens with a comprehensive introductory essay by Joanna Kruczkowska, and further insights into the creative mind and aspects of publishing are provided through a roundtable with the authors recorded at the time of the festival. This material further contributes to a remarkably structured look at the business of writing and the workings of two literary systems.
Download or read book The Sampler Motif Book written by Brenda Keyes and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Baroque Charted Designs for Needlework written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
