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| Upcoming Meetings |
Note: We are still scheduling Zoom presentations each month. We hope you will enjoy these presentations, enjoy seeing each other and the projects started and finished. As soon as the libraries are able to allow groups to meet again we will go back to our regular programming! Stay tuned!
Meetings begin at 10:00 AM (Zoom room opens at 9:45), unless otherwise stated.
Details and Zoom link will be sent via email in advance of each meeting.
| Saturday Nov. 23, 2024 | Program: Patricia Wilson Nguyen will present on "New Research On 17th Century Embroidery" Embroidery literature and study has primarily focused on interpretation of embroidery from a design and literature perspective: using the words written in pamphlets of the period and that of Victorian authors who cast embroidery with a distinctive, yet misogynistic, viewpoint. More recent researchers such as Edwina Erhman, Lynne Anderson, Rebecca Scott, Isabella Rosner and Joanne Harvey have employed a genealogical approach to determine more information about school-girl embroidery of Early Modern England and the Colonies. Tricia has taken the clues coming from these studies and expanded upon them significantly using data centered on methodology including life stories and scientific study of both professional and school girl embroideries. Concurrently, Tricia has been investigating Nuremberg, a locus of important pattern book publishing, for unique stories of women which parallel and contrast her research in the UK. Join Tricia for an overview of new insights and stories of 17th century embroidery. |
| Dec. 14, 2025 | Party! See your fall newsletter for details |
| Saturday Jan. 25, 2025 | Program: Rachel Midgley of the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection will join us. The Gawthorpe Textiles Collection is an internationally
renowned collection of global textiles, an accredited museum and independent registered charity located in the heart of Pennine, Lancashire. This will be a detailed look at nine of the samplers in the collection that illustrate the evolving styles and techniques of four centuries of hand stitched history. Close up images will reveal the stitches and threads used along with discussion of the design and choice of motifs and where they were known. Rachel will also share what information there is on the makers of these pieces. |