there were 15 collegues inscribed:

On Saturday Danièle Denise showed us the embroideries in the beautiful and interesting exhibition at Grand Palais (see also exhibitions).
In the afternoon it was possible to continue the discussions in Grand Palais.

For the french speaking people it was not easy to discuss in english and the english collegues had a hard time to follow the spoken french. But we all felt the need to work on a Vocabulary with drawings and photos in order to know exactly what the specialist of other countries are talking about.

I.) It is known that several institutes are working on vocabularies:

-The Textile Museum in Washington, USA is working on an english embroidery thesaurus, but so far there are no experts in other languages involved.
- V&A in London computerizes the collections, but it is not limited to embroideries. The work is done eventually, when there are exhibitions.
- Frieda Sorber, Antwerp, is computerizing her collection. She is also working with terms on embroidery, in dutch language.
- other institutions: ????

Members of the CIETA-Embroidery group want to set up an embroidery vocabulary for themselves, for the embroidery specialists working in European museums and also for free lance specialists belonging to the group.

a) at first we are going to collect embroidery terms, expressions. We limit the work to European countries. We are collecting basic stitches first, in order to set up a simple vocabulary. We do not collect regional terms. Every country will set up its own vocabulary, and at a later date we will put these terms together.
b) there should be groups according to the material used. As for instance: gold embroideries, whitework embroideries, drawn- and cutwork, blackwork, machine embroidery etc. As an example we will start with gold embroideries.
Thessy Schoenholzer very kindly offered to work on gold embroideries in Italy.
c) we will also make short descriptions for each term, but not on how to do the stitches, but what is tipical, how does the stitch look like. Historical remarks will help to answer questions at which date the embroideries were worked.
d) there should be drawings of the stitches, and one photo of the frontside and one photo of the backside.

III ) -At this first moment, we are doing this research work without financial sources. The aim will be a CD-ROM , as this way of publication is cheaper.

IV) - The next meeting shall be 14th and 15th February 2003 in Munich, as Birgitt Borkopp is going to exhibit embroideris at the Bayerisches National Museum.
I shall send an inscription form to all members towards the end of the year.

in german:
- Ruth Grönwoldt, Stickereien von der Vorzeit bis zur Gegenwart, München 1993
- Renée Boser, Irmgard Mueller, Systematik der Stichformen, Basel 1968
- Eva Mühlbächer, Europäische Stickereien vom Mittelalter bis zum Jugendstil, Berlin 1995
- Térèse de Dillemont

in english:
- Mrs Archibald Christie, Samplers and Stitches, a handbook of the embroiderer's art, London 1920
- Mary Thomas, Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, published by Hodder and Stoughton, Sevenoaks, 1934, last reprint 1993.

in french:
- reprint of Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, Designer to the King, Art of the Embroiderer, 1770, translated and annotated by Nikki Scheurer, additional Notes and Commentaries by Edward Maeder (Los Angeles, 1983)
- Vocabulaire de la broderie de couleur (Nicole de Reyniès)
dans: Livres en broderie - Reliures françaises du Moyen Age à nos jours, expositions organisée par la Bibliothèque nationale de France à la Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal du 30 Novembre 1995 au 25 février 1996