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Georgian Embroidery Patterns in the Lady's Magazine (1770-1819)

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This article analyses the c. 650 needlework patterns issued in the Lady’s Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex between 1770 and 1819. The patterns were vital to the periodical’s appeal and materialised important aspects of its ethos. As individual objects, as a collection and as a part of the women’s magazine’s multi-media ecology, the embroidery designs have much to teach us. This substantial material archive provides a wealth of insights into domestic embroidery practice as well as into the fashions, seasonality, transmission, circulation and evolution of needlework designs and amateur embroiderers’ skills across the late Georgian period.

Source: White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)

Author: Batchelor, Jennie Elizabeth

Language: English

Topic: Fashion and Cultural Textiles

Subfield: Museology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6981962076

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