Galerie Heitz of Palais Rohan
2, place du Château
F-67000 Strassbourg

Ateliers de broderie
au Musée Alsacien:
23 - 25, quai Saint-Nicolas
67000 Strasbourg
Tél :03 88 52 50 01 - Fax : 03 88 43 64 18

guided tours:
sundays, except first sunday every month, at 11 am

Broder sans compter
l'art de la broderie en Alsace
du 16e au 20e siècle

26 Novembre 2004 until 7 March 2005

catalogue at: http://www.musee-strasbourg.org/F/EDITIONS/EDIT_NOUVEAUTES.HTML#cat_broderie

de Nathalie Bresson, journaliste, maître socioloogie
"La broderie au point de croix, tradition féminine réinventée"
Les samedis 27 novembre, 29 janvier, 26 février de 15h à 17h,
à la chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Strasbourg

Atelier de broderie:

- du 3 janvier au 6 mars: "Autour des abécédaires", initiation à la broderie pour les enfants de 7 à 12 ans, accompagnés d'un adulte:
Les mercredis après-midi de 14h30 à 17h, tarif: 5 Euro par adulte, et 4.50 par enfant

- "Broderie traditionnelle: l'essuie-mains d'apparat, le plastron, le bonnet de de coiffe"
Cycle ou ateliers pour adultes, en compagnie d'une brodeuse professionelle:
Lundi, vendredi de 14h à 16 h, samedi de 10h à 12h, tarif: 5 Euro la séance

Detail of shawl, Alsace, beginning 19th c., called 'Freid und Leid' (joy and grief)

Sampler, Alsace 1840,
canvas, cotton, wool threads, crossstitch

Embroidery to hide towels, Alsace around 1900,
white cotton, red cotton embroidery yarn

Picture of protection, german, around 1900

In the catalogue one of the chapters describes the development of the factory DMC in Mulhouse. This is also the history of the embroidery yarn DMC and of the family Dollfus-Mieg.

This was also the place where Thérèse de Dillmont had her embroidery atelier. Here she created her pattern books on embroidery.
The exhibition shows some 'tableaus' of Thérèse de Dillmont's collection of international embroidery. This is the collection where the inspiration to her famous embroidery pattern books came from..

Three scenes from a linen emboidery, 1615, MAD
with 5 medaillons with scenes around the birth of Christ. In the centre medaillons the adoration of the Magi is represented. The design could have been inspired by a graphic print of Albrecht Dürer of 1511

below:
detail with visitation
detail with birth of Christ

The Rohan Palace:
Fashioned after the Parisian style of mansions, it was built between 1732 and 1742 "between court and garden" according to the plans drawn by Robert de Cotte, first architect of the King for the Cardinal Prince Bishop Armand-Gaston de Rohan-Soubise, illegitimate son of Louis XIV. Four Rohan Cardinals would successively occupy the Bishop's throne of Strasbourg between 1704 and 1789. At the beginning of the 19th c. it became the resisdence of Napoléon of whom the Alsatians were very fond. Besides the "State Apartments", built in the same order as Versailles, the Palace houses the Decorative Arts Museum, the Fine Arts Museum and the Archeology Museum.

The Alsatian museum:
It was established in 1907 in three beautiful Renaissance houses. The alsatian museum is a folk art museum featuring essentially rural customs and ways of life depicted through usual items such as furniture, ceramics imagery, costumes.