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Medieval Splendour in gold thread and silk
The Acupictrix, alias Dr Jessica Grimm, writes a weekly blog on medieval goldwork embroidery and related topics.
Dr Jessica Grimm is a member of Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Ancienes (CIETA), Bundesverband Kunsthandwerk, and S.E.W.
Blog categories
- Embroidery Technique
- Experiments
- Geography
- Medieval Embroiderers
- Museum
- Anagni Cathedral
- Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
- Brandenburg Cathedral
- British Museum London
- Canterbury Cathedral Archives
- Castello Buonconsiglio
- Catharijne Convent Utrecht
- Cathedral Treasury Le Puy-en-Velay
- Cathedral Treasury Vienna
- Church Heritage Museum Vilnius
- Diocesan Museum Bamberg
- Diocesan Museum Brixen
- Diocesan Museum Osnabrück
- Domschatz Fritzlar
- Domschatz im historischen Museum der Pfalz
- Domschatzmuseum Chur
- Frankfurt Cathedral
- Germanisches Nationalmuseum
- Görlitzer Sammlungen
- Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts
- Imperial Treasury Vienna
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- Mainz Cathedral
- Merseburg Cathedral
- Musée Cluny
- Musee Diocesain de Namur
- Musei Vaticani
- Museo Civico Medievale Bologna
- Museo d'Arte Sacra San Gimignano
- Rüstkammer Dresden
- Saint Stefano Bologna
- Sammlung Bernheimer
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- St Nicolai Kalkar
- Victory & Albert Museum London
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The Schlosser Ornat: from Cologne to Frankfurt
One of the highlights of my museum tour at the end of November last year was the Dommuseum Frankfurt. It has nine medieval embroidered vestments on permanent display. Well worth a visit! At the beginning of the year, I showed you a green chasuble with embroideries from the mid-14th century and… Read More
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Booze and Madder: some embroidery experiments
Asking for beer at 9:30 a.m. raised a few eyebrows next door at the abbey. Assuring Friar Markus that it was needed for an embroidery experiment did little to improve matters. But it was the truth. What had happened? During my MEDATS talk, I asked the audience for… Read More
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Goldwork Embroidery Tutorial: a fancy border with triangles
This week, I have a goldwork embroidery tutorial for you inspired by a late 15th-century embroidered chasuble kept in the Domschatz of Fritzlar. It has these lovely textured bands or borders between the individual orphreys. The border is made by couching gold threads and coloured silks over string… Read More
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15th century, Austria, Domschatz Fritzlar, Germany, Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts, Sammlung BernheimerReconstructing a model book for late medieval embroidery
When we looked at the embroidered chasuble from Fritzlar with the Virgo inter Virgines iconography last week, I was sure I would find many Doppelgängers. I had seen this iconography many times before, and I was pretty sure that these pieces were all very similar. Nope. They are not. As soon… Read More
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Virgo inter Virgines: 15th century embroidery from Germany
Late last year, I visited the Domschatz of Fritzlar. This small museum displays several embroidered medieval textiles, which you can photograph as long as you don’t use flash. The textiles are extremely well-lit and very close to the display case’s glass. This means that you can examine them very… Read More
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Stitch Tutorial: 14th century Pearl-edged nimbus
Today’s stitch tutorial is all about the white string we see in many medieval goldwork embroideries. This padding is often all that remains from the original bead embroidery worked with freshwater pearls. When we are really lucky, a few pearls still adhere. As is the case with the chasuble I… Read More