| Newsletter
- of the CIETA Embroidery Group Bulletin d’Information de Groupe Broderie de CIETA No 7 |
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| Dear members, | St Gallen, 21st January 1998 |
ANNE WANNER'S Textiles in History / CIETA Embroidery Newsletters
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| the new year already
started once more and I am sending to all of you all the
best wishes. Thank you for your seasons greetings and
also for the contributions of this letter. Elsie Janssen sent interesting news about the collection of the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels. Daniele Veron-Denise sent a summary of her lecture at the Ecole du Louvre of last September. Monica Paredis-Vroon contributed with a booklet about the miraculous Maria statue of the cathedral of Aachen. And what would I do without the very special book reviews and reports of Pat Griffiths? Many thanks. Yours Anne Wanner-JeanRichard |
General
information: |
| General information: The 7th ETN-Conference will take place in Barcelona and Madrid from March 9th - 13th 1998 At the Calico Museum of
Textiles, Sarabhari Foundation, Ahmedabad, 38004 INDIA |
| The Textile
Museum St.Gallen shows "Lace frames faces",
November 1997 until fall 1998. This exhibition shows the development of lace from Renaissance to modern Czech creations. Portrait paintings from Swiss collections help to visualise lace as a clothing accessory. A book with translations in English, French and Italian has been published: Marianne Gaechter, "Spitzen umschreiben Gesichter", St.Gallen 1997, size 153 x 213 mm, 184 p., 192 black and white pictures, ISBN 3-9220007-0-I, price: sFr. 25.- + postage |
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Exhibition
in the Errera-Gallery |
| Elsje Janssen Curator of Tapestries and Textiles Royal Museums of Art and History, 10 Parc du Cinquantenaire, 1000 Brussels Tel. 32/2/741.72.44; Fax: 32/2/733.77.35; E-mail: e.janssen@kmkg-mrah.be |
| This
exhibition will be on display until Fall 1998. The current exhibition in the textile gallery (named the Errera-Gallery, after Isabelle Errera, who collected and donated a lot of the textiles to the museum at the beginning of this century) presents a wide range of different textiles from all over Europe and covering several centuries. Embroideries on display are: Opus Anglicanum, French and German medieval embroidery, Italian Renaissance embroidery, a 17th century embroidered chasuble, a sampler and a very fine embroidered cabinet, and a variety of embroidered paintings from the 17th and 18th century as well as some small embroidered objects. In the same exhibition are Italian 14th century silks, Perugia linens, Florentine borders, Spanish Renaissance silks, French 18th century silks, 20th century French printed and woven textiles, printed silks from the Wiener Werkstaette, woven 1930’s to 1950’s tablecloths from Germany and Belgium and 1950’s printed curtains on display. From contemporary Belgian designers several hand tufted carpets are on exhibit as well as damasks and intricate handmade textilesamples, designed both for the industry and for interior decoration. The friends of the Museum bought an altarfrontal from the beginning of the 17th century, embroidered by the Ursulines of Amiens, France. After I have done some research I will send a photograph and a small text for the Newsletter of the CIETA Embroidery Group. |
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| Note: The altarfrontal from Rupertsberg, Germany, dating from around 1230, embroidered with gold and silver thread on red silk ground and in our collection since the end of the 19th century, will be on display at the major exhibition "Hildegard von Bingen" in the Bischoefliches Dom- und Dioezesan-museum Mainz, Germany, from 17 April until 16th August 1998 |
Embroidery
lecture in: Ecole du Louvre, 26 septembre 1997 |
| Resume de la
Communication au Colloque sur Henri II et les Arts Ecole du Louvre, 26 septembre 1997 Un brodeur de Henri II: Robert Mestais by Daniele VERON-DENISE |
| Robert
MESTAIS , brodeur de Henri II, est originaire de Tours.
Des 1547-1548, alors qu’il reside toujours dans
cette ville, il figure dans les Comptes de l’Ordre
de Saint-Michel, pour avoir brode la bourse du sceau et
le manteau de l’Ordre pour le roi. En 1549, il
s’installe à Paris, tout en conservant des contacts
avec le milieu des brodeurs de Tours qu’il associe
à ses travaux, notamment en 1549 et 1563. En 1551, il
brode un autre manteau de l’Ordre, destine au roi
d’Angleterre, Edouard VI. En 1552, il execute des
broderies sur plusieurs selles et elements de
harnachement du roi, dont certains "pour servir à
six grands chevaulx à la guerre", et d’autres
ouvrages brodes sur une cotte d’armes "pour
servir à Montjoye premier Roy d’armes" de
Henri II. En 1553, Robert MESTAIS passe un marche avec l’architecte Philibert De Lorme, pour le compte de Diane de Poitiers, par lequel il s’engage à executer une tenture destinee au château d’Anet (propriete de Diane de Poitiers en Normandie). Cette tenture doit comprendre huit pieces de broderies sur fond de velours "cramoisy brun toutes remplies de grotesques", plus un dais brode de même façon. Le marche ne donne malheureusement pas l’iconographie de ces pieces; mais en comparant les donnees du marche concernant leur nombre, les materiaux utilises et les dimensions des pieces, avec deux medaillons brodes representant l’un, une "Chasse au Cerf", et l’autre "Un combat d’Ours", conserves au Musee historique des Tissus de Lyon et dont on connait l’histoire depuis Henri IV, nous proposons de voir dans ces derniers deux vestiges de la commande de Diane de Poitiers pour Anet (demonstration detaillee). Par la
suite, on voit Robert MESTAIS participer, en 1559, aux
preparatifs des funerailles d’Henri II. Puis il
figure encore comme brodeur du roi dans les Comptes de
François II, et travaille aussi pour Charles IX. |
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Booklet by Wibke Huebner,
Georg Minkenberg, Monica Paredis-Vroon |
| sent by Monica
Paredis-Vroon Der Schatz des Gnadenbildes im Dom zu Aachen articles: by Georg Minkenberg, Wibke Huebner, Monica Paredis-Vroon catalogue of costumes for the statue of Virgin Mary and Child, Aachen, 1996, booklet, 64 p., some black and white pictures |
Catalogue of the antique
fair in Vicenza, 1997 |
| sent by Pat Griffiths: Doretta Davanzo Poli, ‘Tessuti Merletti Ricami degli Antichi Ospedali Veneziani’ Vicenza 1997. Text in Italian, illustrated in colour and black and white. |
Exhibition catalogue,
Antwerp 1997 |
| sent by Pat Griffiths: catalogue: Rubenstextiel/Rubens’s Textiles Antwerp 1997 text in Dutch and English, illustrated in colour and black and white |
Article in: Textile Today,
Juli 1997 |
| sent by Pat Griffiths: Bernice Archer, ‘A Patchwork of Internment’ in: History Today, July 1997, pp.11-18 |
Book by Johanna Morel von
Schulthess |
| Elsi
Giauque, 1900-1989, Wegbereiterin der modernen Kunst Thesis of the University of Zuerich, by Johanna Morel von Schulthess Berne 1997, ISBN -3-716-1078-5, sFr. 89.- 320 pages, 207 black and white and coloured pictures, in german |
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