![]() ![]() Cross, tent, and backstitch are used to execute the piece over one thread of linen. Stitched over one thread of 35-count linen, this finished piece will measure approximately 8-1/4″ x 8-1/2″. The women who stitched these patterns invented their own color vocabulary, and that’s where their genius survives. Pattern drawers used published design books for their inspiration, as well as wild flights of imagination. It requires no great Taste in Painting, nor the Principles of Drawing: but a wild kind of Imagination, to adorn their Works with a sort of regular confusion… (The London Tradesman, 1747) Pattern drawers are employed in drawings Patterns for…Embroiderers…They draw Patterns upon Paper, which they sell to Workmen that want them…This requires a fruitful Fancy, to invent new whims to please the changeable follies of the Ladies, for whose use their Work is chiefly intended. The exaggerated shapes suggest that this might have been a piece drawn by a “pattern drawer” whose vocation is described as follows: This Arcadian scene illustrates new and exotic creatures, increasingly popular with the upper middle-class English audience, intrigued by the fascinating new discoveries being made by mariners and men of science as the world expanded. ![]() ![]() ![]() This design was inspired by an early eighteenth century English picture executed in tent stitch: a magnificent example of the art of needle painting by the meticulous employment of silk threads on fine linen. ![]()
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