"Fashion & Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 73, no. 2 (Fall, 2015) | MetPublications

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"Fashion & Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 73, no. 2 (Fall, 2015)

Speelberg, Femke (2015)

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This Bulletin discusses the Met's extensive collection of Renaissance textile pattern books, used primarily by women to embroider clothes and accessories. The practice of embroidery was seen as a virtuous endeavor, and textile pattern books, published with great frequency from the 1520s onward, were designed to inspire, instruct, and encourage "beautiful and virtuous women" in this esteemed practice. Straddling the disciplines of early printmaking, ornament design, and textile decoration, these works help shed light on the crucial period when the concept of fashion as a means of distinguishing individual identity became fixed in Western society.

Table of contents

Director's Note

Fashion and Virtue
The Print Revolution
Book Printing & the Age of Entrepreneurship
Ornament as Subject
Introducing the Textile Pattern Book
Finding Form
Techniques of Representation
Patterns for Openwork & Lace
“Painting with the Needle”: An Art of Virtue & Virtuosity

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the authors

Femke Speelberg is associate curator in the Drawings and Prints Department.

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