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Western European Embroidery in the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Publication design: Roger Whitehouse

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The Greenleaf Collection: Textile Arts from the 16th to the Early 19th Century

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Stitches in Time: An Exhibition of Embroideries and Needlework Techniques

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Popular objects

Once a month the Digital & Emerging Media team will be reporting back on how objects in the collection circulate online.And here's our first missive.

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Building Movement

An interview with animator James Duesing.Susan Brown: The question I am most frequently asked as a curator is, “How long would it take to make something like that?” In trying to think of a contemporary...

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Arabic Design Influence on the Island of Sicily

Sicily, island of sun, myth, and the omnipresent sea, has been the prized jewel in the crown of many invading empires. The Mediterranean Sea was the channel for the great trade routes between the East...

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Family Registers and Family Legends

Considered a genteel accomplishment, needlework was an important component of female education in colonial and federal America. Family register samplers,  such as this late 18th century example worked...

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A Pliable Plane

The granite and glass Ford Foundation Headquarters Building on East 42nd Street in Manhattan was designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates. Completed in 1967, the building is an icon of...

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Back in the USSR

This extremely rare trade catalog from 1940, in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library, represents the output of 10 state-owned ceramics factories from all over the Ukraine in small towns...

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Hi-tech Embroidery

Embroidery has an unfairly old-fashioned image, probably because of the pious verses of the 19th century associating needlework with womanly virtue. So when we were developing the exhibition Extreme...

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Piña Camisa

This ornate and delicate nineteenth century blouse (camisa) from the Philippines made of piña cloth is a testament to the unique and rich textile traditions of this former Spanish colony. The use of...

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A Greek Embroidered Band

In 1953, Cooper-Hewitt received from Richard C. Greenleaf (1887–1961) a gift of twelve pieces of embroidery and lace. One piece was an unusual band made in the Greek Islands in the eighteenth century....

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Democratized embroidery

The first pattern books documenting textile design motifs were published in the first quarter of the sixteenth century, and their proliferation into the nineteenth century allowed the wide...

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Monogram guides

The numbers, letters, and monograms taught and illustrated in manuals and pattern books were used by a wide variety of craftsmen, including engravers, wood carvers, painters, and embroiderers—as seen...

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Guimard Embroidery Sample

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Stitched Samplers: Voices from the Past

What were you doing when you were twelve years old: riding bikes with friends, lip synching to your favorite band, watching bad TV shows, making cookies? I might have a hard time remembering exactly...

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The “feet” of time?

Relatively little is known about this pair of men’s silk stockings.  The donor of the stockings, Richard Greenleaf, identified them as being French and dating from the late eighteenth or early...

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A Little Nightcap

This embroidered nightcap represents a type of hat worn by English men beginning around 1550. It was appropriate for any time of day despite its name, and men wore it informally at home but not while...

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Teaching as Art: The Tapestry Art of Ann-Mari Kornerup

Tapestry weaver Ann-Mari Kornerup (1918-2006) frequently depicted scenes of everyday life. Many include children. Kornerup was born in Stockholm, Sweden and studied at the Swedish School of Textiles,...

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Buried in our Churchyard

Born in 1801 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Willamina Rine was twelve when she stitched this sampler at Mrs. Armstrong's school in 1813. The archives of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster reveal...

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