Former Intern Kirstin Purtich discusses the ways in which menswear became more elaborate and customizable in eighteenth-century Paris.

Assistant Conservator Giulia Chiostrini analyzes a collection of embroidered roundels now on view in Scenes from the Life of St. Martin: Franco-Flemish Embroidery from the Met Collection.

Aliza Sena, associate coordinator for Digital Learning, visits the Antonio Ratti Textile Center and Reference Library with a local Girl Scout troop.

Warren T. Woodfin examines the style and iconography of a group of embroideries on view in Liturgical Textiles of the Post-Byzantine World.

Did you know that artwork by girls is in The Met collection? See nineteenth-century samplers and needlework pictures from The American Wing.

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.

Guest blogger Warren T. Woodfin examines the role of liturgical vestments in the post-Byzantine era.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will host a group of 51 fellows, which consists of graduate students and scholars from the United States and around the world. The fellows will undertake study and research projects, either at the Museum or abroad, for periods ranging from three months to one year, most of them beginning in September 2009.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will host a group of 50 fellows, who consist of graduate students and scholars from the United States and around the world. The fellows will undertake study and research projects, either at the Metropolitan Museum or abroad, for periods ranging from two months to one year, most of them beginning in September 2008.