THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN | VOLUME 73 | NUMBER 2
"Fashion & Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520–1620"
48 pages
60 illustrations
This title is out of print.
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.
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